For those unaware, the brand new studio album of Mark Wingfield’s album for MoonJune Records finds this most distinctive American born English guitarist in the company of Gary Husband (keyboards and drums), Asaf Sirkis (drums) with world-renowned bass players, Tony Levin and Percy Jones.

Initially recording with Husband and Sirkis as a trio in 2021 in Spain, Wingfield and MoonJune’s Leonard Pavkovic later recruited Jones and Levin to add their highly individual signature contributions during 2023.

The result, The Gathering is a seamless blend of compositions and collective improvisation that roves way beyond the usual generic categorizations making the album hard to pin down as either jazz or rock. Perhaps that’s as it should be for a sound that hovers somewhere between these and other more diverse stylistic influences.

1. The Corkscrew Tower (feat. Tony Levin)
2. Stormlight (feat. Percy Jones)
3. Apparition in the Vaults (feat. Tony Levin + two drummers)
4. A Fleeting Glance (feat. Percy Jones + two drummers
5. Pursued in the Snow Lit Forest (feat. Tony Levin)
6. The Lost Room (feat. Tony Levin)
7. The Listening Trees (feat. Tony Levin)
8. Journey Home (feat. Tony Levin + two drummers
9. Together We Rise (feat. Percy Jones)
10. Cinnamon Bird (feat. Percy Jones)

With Wingfield navigating his way through en mass of different musical spaces here within The Gathering, his new recording opens on the luxuriant The Corkscrew Tower (featuring Tony Levin) and the stridently alluring Stormlight (featuring Percy Jones), and then we are brought forth the atmospherically-sewn Apparition in the Vaults (featuring Tony Levin and two drummers), the elegant hipsway of A Fleeting Glance (featuring Percy Jones and two drummers, and then we get the stealthy Pursued in the Snow Lit Forest (featuring Tony Levin).

Along next is the veritably ethereal The Lost Room (featuring Tony Levin) and the quietly frenetic, yet dutifully-cultured The Listening Trees (featuring Tony Levin), and they are in turn followed by the soaring, fairly shimmering Journey Home (featuring Tony Levin and two drummers, the album rounding out on the all-embracing melodies that form Together We Rise (featuring Percy Jones), closing on the ornately masterful Cinnamon Bird (featuring Percy Jones).

Musicians:
Mark Wingfield - guitar, soundscapes (all tracks)
Gary Husband - synth & piano (all tracks) and drums (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Asaf Sirkis - drums (all tracks)
Tony Levin - electric upright bass (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8)
Percy Jones - fretless bass guitar (tracks 2, 4, 9, 10)

Official Purchase Link

www.markwingfield.com