MP3 Mark Davenport - Full Circle: Songs on the Carousel of Time

An intimate and thought-provoking progressive pop album that features piano and vocals, with shades of fusion and art rock behind lyrics of rediscovery, faith, love, dreams, optimism, and hope.

10 MP3 Songs in this album (47:32) !
Related styles: ROCK: Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, JAZZ: Jazz-Pop

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About the album:

This is the debut solo release from singer/songwriter Mark Davenport. The self-produced CD is a retrospective of songs drawn from Davenportâs eclectic catalogue, penned over a 20-year period. Centered on Davenportâs vocal and keyboard work, the newly recorded songs also feature tasteful guitar tracks, recorders, cello, percussion, and appearances by several guest artists, including noted jazz saxophonist Andy Snitzer and Davenportâs son Miles Davenport (guitars).

About the performer:

Davenport was born in New York City to musical parents and was playing music in âthe family bandâ before he could read and write. He spent most of his early childhood growing up in an experimental artistâs community in Rockland County, New York, living among painters, potters, dancers, avante garde film makers, composers and performers (John Cage among them). He began studies on the cello at age eight, and classical and jazz piano at age 15. He attended Sarah Lawrence College on a cello scholarship before taking a leave of absence to go on tour with The Saturday Night Band in the late 70s. He spent the next dozen years moving between membership in locally popular bands in the New York area, as a musical director for an Off-Broadway theater company, as a composer for documentary television, and as a specialist on renaissance and baroque woodwind instruments.

In 1992 Davenport took a hiatus from songwriting to pursue a Ph.D. in Musicology at the University of Colorado, at Boulder. He is currently an Associate Professor of Music at Regis University in Denver, where he heads the Music Department.

A note from the performer:

âCreating this album was a very personal journey. It had been 16 years since I was in the studio working on songs and I really hadnât intended on doing this album. But I was drawn toward these songs that I had written years earlier and I gradually allowed myself to reconnect with them, and my past, rediscovering and reworking them in a new light and writing some completely new songs as well. I'm glad I can share them with you."