Marc Mommaas - Ballads & Standards - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Back on the Horse 2. Fermenting 3. Marching to a Different Drummer 4. Setting Sail 5. Vortex 6. Broken Nest 7. The Visit 8. Wheels & Tracks 9. Very Bari 10. Gears 11. Down the Rabbit Hole 12. Quest

2020 . Wicked Sensation Reimagined features re-worked and re-recorded versions of their most classic songs. The twelve-track album, originally released in October 1990, is considered by many to be sacred and perfect the way it is. The idea of rerecording it was not something Oni Logan or George Lynch took lightly. InchThe term 're-record' makes me cringe, this is not that,Inch explains Lynch. InchWe re-invented the wheel on this record. It's really a different animal than the original! Fans won't be disappointed!Inch The new cover of Wicked Sensation Reimagined was hand drawn by mid-west comic artist Andrew Owens as a tribute to the original cover art. With the help of Robbie Crane (Black Star Riders) on bass and Brian Tichy on drums, George Lynch and Oni Logan bring passion and power into these newly created arrangements, take nothing away from the old versions, but bring new light and magic to the material. The songs continue to sound fresh and timeless and will be ready to garner a whole new legion of fans for the next thirty years! Album Tracks 1. Wicked Sensation (Reimagined) 2. River of Love (Reimagined) 3. Sweet Sister Mercy (Reimagined) 4. All I Want (Reimagined) 5. Hell Child (Reimagined) 6. She's Evil But She's Mine (Reimagined) 7. Dance of the Dogs (Reimagined) 8. Rain (Reimagined) 9. No Bed of Roses (Reimagined) 10. Through These Eyes (Reimagined) 11. For a Million Years (Reimagined) 12. Street Fightin' Man (Reimagined)

The eerie stillness of New York City during the Covid-19 pandemic led many residents to a state of contemplation and inner exploration. Saxophonist/composer Marc Mommaas found himself drawn to sounds that he grew up with but had eschewed for his own musical path in jazz, namely classical music. The self-described expressionist was surprised to find himself immersed in the sounds of the Impressionists. // Mommaas dove into the music of the Impressionists but found himself particularly drawn to one of the instigators of the movement, Gabriel Fauré, who eventually taught Maurice Ravel and Nadia Boulanger. It was with Fauré's esthetic in mind that Mommaas began to write music for his new recording, The Impressionist. // Coming from four generations of classical musicians, Mommaas still hears the sound of his mother's piano playing Chopin when he was a child. As a saxophonist, Mommaas was entirely jazz oriented, inspired by the deep passion his father had for Jazz (a prolific Dutch painter and artist with a capital A). However, as the City slowed down during the pandemic Mommaas found himself drawn to the impressionistic sounds of Fauré, instigated by his famous Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 // The study of Gabriel Fauré's idiosyncratic composing style led Marc Mommaas down a path of discovery and rediscovery. The music hit him in a time and place where it made the most sense to channel into brilliantly fashioned original music, presented here as The Impressionist. Album Tracks 1. Nostalgia 2. The Impressionist 3. C'est la Vie 4. No More 5. Float Away 6. Fauré 7. Free Above All 8. Moving on