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Joel Harrison, Anthony Pirog - The Great Mirage (2023)

Joel Harrison, Anthony Pirog - The Great Mirage (2023)
  • Title: The Great Mirage
  • Year Of Release: 2023
  • Label: AGS Recordings
  • Genre: jazz, rock
  • Quality: MP3 320 kbps; 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC
  • Total Time: 50 min
  • Total Size: 117; 305 MB
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A two guitar collaboration between Joel Harrison and Anthony Pirog.
Pirog and Harrison tend to finish each other sentences when they play. Twenty five years separate them in age, and yet they seem to have common ancestry. Both are from Wash. D.C., both love jazz, rock, fusion, avant garde, folk, funk, and country music, and both often do all of it all at once.
On The Great Mirage each composed and arranged music for the session, the music caterwauls between heavy and light, really loud and really soft, gorgeous, spiky, grooving and free. The record reaches towards a 21st century essay in what the guitar can do. The band’s sense of joy and adventure is palpable as they extend their range and reach deep into American guitar history and future.
The rhythm section adds a tremendous amount to the pieces. Allison Miller, herself a D.C. kid, wallops and caresses the drums with authority and finesse. Crump, who is better known for his upright playing, grooves like a modern day Jamerson, and then puts a delicate bow around a lyrical series of modern jazz chord changes.
Harrison’s “There’s Never Enough Time” and “I’ll See You in the Shining World lean towards pathos.” But then moments of thunder, Pirog’s “It Slipped Through My Fingers, his arrangement of Keith Jarret’s “Mortgage on My Soul.” There’s the windswept ballad “Desert Solitaire,” and the final track where two Les Pauls light up a Neil Young-style groove penned by Harrison called “Buffalo Heart.” The CD takes its name from the first tune, The Great Mirage, a Paul Motian-inspired number which Harrison wrote in a flash after reading a book on Tibetan Dream Yoga.
For guitar fans, modern jazz lovers, and rockers alike, this release takes you on a circuitous, thrilling journey.

Joel Harrison and Anthony Pirog: guitars
Stephan Crump: bass
Allison Miller: drums
Bruce Katz: Hammond B-3 on track 10



1.01 - Joel Harrison, Anthony Pirog - The Great Mirage (5:27)
1.02 - Joel Harrison, Anthony Pirog - Critical Conversation (3:50)
1.03 - Joel Harrison, Anthony Pirog - There's Never Enough Time (4:28)
1.04 - Joel Harrison, Anthony Pirog - Mortgage On My Soul (4:21)
1.05 - Joel Harrison, Anthony Pirog - Desert Solitaire (4:11)
1.06 - Joel Harrison, Anthony Pirog - It Slipped Through My Fingers (3:21)
1.07 - Joel Harrison, Anthony Pirog - Last Rose of Summer (1:15)
1.08 - Joel Harrison, Anthony Pirog - I'll See You in the Shining World (6:30)
1.09 - Joel Harrison, Anthony Pirog - East Hurley (4:58)
1.10 - Joel Harrison, Anthony Pirog - Clarksdale (6:22)
1.11 - Joel Harrison, Anthony Pirog - Buffalo Heart (5:41)

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