Magic Labyrinth

by Marc Johnson, Marc Johnson's Right Brain Patrol

Overview

The second album by bassist Marc Johnson's trio is something of a departure from the first. The instrumentation is the same; Arto Tuncboyaciyan is back on drums and percussion, but guitarist Ben Monder is replaced by the somewhat superior Wolfgang Muthspiel, whose sharp attack and incisive, boppish lines provide much of the backbone to this session. There's a fine remake of "Samurai Hee-Haw," a Johnson original that first appeared on his outstanding Bass Desires album, and Tuncboyaciyan provides an eerily lovely, wordless vocal on "J.P.," another Johnson composition. Most interesting of all is the strangely abstract bass-and-congas arrangement of the Miles Davis standard "Solar." Muthspiel contributes the borderline atonal "A Paco" and a nice Latin-tinged number entitled "Around That Time." None of this is exactly straight-ahead; nor is it really radical -- just unusually original. ~ Rick Anderson

Product Details

Release Date:	08/09/2005
Label:	Jmt / Winter & Winter
UPC:	0025091907328
Rank:	135165

Tracks

1. Samurai Hee-Haw
2. J.P.
3. Solar
4. A Paco
5. Forest Bower
6. Street Walk
7. Magic Labyrinth
8. Around That Time
9. Ne Um Tal Vez

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Marc Johnson's Right Brain Patrol   Primary Artist
Marc Johnson   Primary Artist,Bass
Marc Alan Johnson   Double Bass
Wolfgang Muthspiel   Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric),Guitar (Synthesizer)
Arto Tuncboyaciyan   Drums,Vocals,Percussion

Technical Credits

Stefan Winter   Audio Production,Producer,Packaging
Carlos Albrecht   Audio Engineer,Engineer
Hermeto Pascoal   Composer
Wolfgang Muthspiel   Composer
Hiroshi Itsuno   Executive Producer
Marc Johnson   Composer
Paul Haggard   Photography
D. Kingsley   Cover Design
Guenter Mattei   Cover Design
Steve Byram   Design
Adrian von Ripka   Mastering
Miles Davis   Composer
Arto Tuncboyaciyan   Composer