New Release: Moonshine from Marc Ciprut

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New Release:  Moonshine from Marc Ciprut
Label: White Label
Release Date: July 11, 2024
Website: www.marcciprut.com

Jazz fusion guitarist Marc Ciprut has a pint of bluesy Bayou mixed in with a dollop of funky Detroit City soul while flexing southern rock muscles.  Ciprut stirs the listener's aural senses with his original material on his recording Moonshine, where he performs with Jon Cowherd, Jeremy Manasia and Etienne Lytle on keyboards, James Genus, Jimmy Haslip, Akos Forgacs on bass, Tommi Rautiainen, Tobias Ralph, Charles Ruggiero on drums, and Danny Sadownick on percussion.  The smoking fumes emanating from Ciprut's guitar on "Who Got Next" are bolted to Jimmy Haslip's funky bass lines and Tobias Ralph's crisp drumbeats, turning to cool frothy licks along "Cutie" with Lytle's simmering organ padding the underbelly of the track.  Ciprut's octane-loaded extemporizing on guitar produce craters through "No Mas Blues," cresting and fading, flexing beefy corpuscles.  He inserts lobbing hooks along "No More Room" igniting a tinderbox of flaming streaks as Jon Cowherd's Wurlitzer kicks up the swirling flurry, then mobilizes smooth bluesy riffs cruising across "Slippery Slope," building into a heated conglomeration.  Produced by Haslip, the recording is a hearty slice of Americana on the bluesy southern rock side of the spectrum.  It's a ride that boosts the listener's energy level multi-fold.

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