Thursday, 29 January 2026

A bunch of Rob Mounsey: 1987 Local Color (with Steve Kahn), 1989 Dig, 1993 Back in the Pool, 1998 You Are Here

 







Information here.

American keyboardist, producer, arranger, composer, musician, and conductor, born 2 December 1952 in Berea, Ohio, USA. Owner of Flying Monkey Productions, Inc., Flying Monkey Studios, and Flying Monkey Music.

I checked out his stuff because he was responsible for some of the great compositions on the preceding post, Joe Cool.  

Local Color (from 1987) with guitarist Steve Kahn comes together very nicely, and is quite similar to the stuff I posted from Khan before here and here.  The delicacy of Blue Rose is very reminiscent of classic 1970s Euro-fusion:



Later albums begin to have more of the classic 1980s new age and Pat Metheny / Brazilian influences which may or may not be appealing to you.

From Dig, however, consider a truly lovely track that closes it out, Gratitude:



1993's Back in the Pool starts to sound very much more and overwhelmingly like Pat Metheny.  The Sand Covers Everything:



Nonetheless, there are great ideas throughout, scattered amongst the commercial throwaways. 

As late as 1998's You Are Here, Still Life with Mockingbird:



There's a lot to enjoy here for sure. The standout is Local Color from 1987.


1 comment:

  1. all 4

    https://krakenfiles.com/view/GlShVgMcnP/file.html

    https://www.sendspace.com/file/pxgncf

    ReplyDelete