Kevin Kastning & Mark Wingfield - 2025 - The WNYC Sessions

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This is the 11th release from Kevin and Mark and is taken from a session they undertook in New York for an WNYC broadcast. Given they have played and recorded together so much, there is a real knowledge from each other as to what is possible and also what may happen when the music is taken down a particular path. Wingfield is highly regarded for the many albums where he has been called upon to provide electric guitar in an improvisational format, while continues invent and then master different guitar-based instruments, here playing a 17-string Hybrid Classical guitar (as well as switching to piano for some, which is an unusual step for him).

Mark often takes the melodic lead, wringing strange, elongated sounds from his guitar (reminiscent at times of Holdsworth), while Kevin takes us on a very different journey, plucking chords and bass notes in a sonic manner which is only possible due to the instrument he curated. It is almost as if two very different worlds are colliding in real time, but instead of bouncing off each other they are somehow melding to create something very different, like the centre of a Venn diagram. When Kevin switches to piano it is again delicate, an extension of what he achieves on his multi-stringed instruments, and sometimes he is followed closely by Mark while at others they again take very different paths indeed. Yet another delight for fans of the avant garde and different, as it is often by taking the path less travelled that we come across real beauty.  

Kev Rowland, September 2025

Links:
http://www.kevinkastning.com/
https://www.markwingfield.com/
http://www.greydisc.com/

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