Mark Egan Releases “Cross Currents”
Mark Egan has just released Cross Currents, a new trio album featuring the talents of drummer. Shawn Pelton and guitarist Shane Theriot. Described as the bassist’s most versatile and ambitious album to date, the music covers a lot of ground with styles including funk, ambient, swamp rock, second-line, Cajun, and Indian.
The group recorded at Power Station in Waterford, Connecticut and laid down the basic tracks before fleshing them out with additional parts.
“The intent of this recording was to capture the interplay and energy of the trio and orchestrate it by adding additional guitars, bass and percussion to enhance what the songs were calling for,” Egan says. “Everyone had so many great ideas for orchestrating and arranging the material. The record has electric and acoustic guitar as well as bass and percussion overdubs. We wanted to make atmospheric pads to create a backdrop for us to improvise over. Once I had decided on recording this trio format I spent nine months of composing and arranging the compositions. Shane and Shawn also spent a lot of time conceptualizing and contributing songs. We had three days to record and orchestrate the eleven compositions so the preproduction allowed us to have the time to be creative in the studio and focus on the group interplay and soloing.”
Get a taste of the album with the awesome title track featuring a solid groove and a fretless melody:
Cross Currents is available now on CD and as a digital download (iTunes and Amazon MP3).
Cross Currents Track List:
- Ponchatrain
- Gulf Stream
- Cross Currents
- Big Sky
- Pocket Call
- Homebrew
- Sunflower
- Roll with It
- Nonc Rodell
- Sand Castles
- Eastern Blue
