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Mark O'Leary

Born: October 20, 1969

Mark O'Leary was born in Cork City Ireland.Being mainly auto didactic on guitar, he played with a number of local bands including; Midway that led to joining the cult band  Interference for a brief period and Mandrake Root with Brendan O'Connor of RTE and a Synth-Pop band called Voltaire with initial influences The Human League and Cabaret Voltaire. Björk is an influence. Bill Laswell has influenced Mark. One of Mark's primary formative influences were Kraftwerk and he alludes to his electronic music as Post-Kraftwerk. He is also influenced by Tangerine Dream and has produced the In Search of Hades Series (II-IV). Depeche Mode are an important Electro Synth Pop Influence. Ryoji Ikeda is a major influence. His electronic music contains influences of Ryuichi Sakamoto. Joy Division were the primary influence for his first bands. Japan were a formative influence on his embryonic work and also David Sylvian. Gary Numan has influenced his Electronic music. He was also influenced by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. Mike Oldfield was a formative influence. He Studied the tape-loop experiments of Steve Reich at Musicians institute, Los Angeles, and Steve Reich has influenced his album 4 Urban Landscapes. He also studied Karlheinz Stockhausen's Tape Music Collages at Musicians Institute and counts him as a major influence. His ambient work is influenced by Brian Eno. Ligeti is also a significant influence. He has also been influenced by Philip Glass. He moved to Los Angeles at the age of 17 to study at Musicians Institute,from where he later graduated. He was the guitar/music teacher of academy award winning best actor Cillian Murphy. He has presented his music in 29 countries and has played at some of the worlds top Jazz festivals and the Kennedy center twice, Knitting Factory, Tonic, CBGB's, Nublu, Luciano Pavarotti Centre, and the Bowery. He had the distinction of performing in the Kenny Wheeler quartet, performed with David Murray and Larry Coryell. He toured Europe and was a member of Canadian Pianist Paul Bley's Last trio where he replaced Bill Frisell. He recorded White Album with Paul Motian, If I see Further than you with Joey Baron and Michael Formanek, as well as A Simple Question with Marc Johnson and Bill Stewart. All on the TIBProd Italy imprint. He toured and recorded the seminal Awakening album with Steve Swallow and Pierre Favre, which earned a review in Jazzwise UK alluding to O'Leary as the most creative guitarist in Ireland and Ireland's best kept secret. He recorded Levitation with Tomasz Stanko and Billy Hart. Mark O'Leary also performed in a historic Duo concert with Tomasz Stanko in the Titanic bar, Cobh Co. Cork performing O'Leary's composition; Titanic Murals, The Titanic Bar was the final sailing point of the RMS Titanic. His album Waiting with Cuong Vu and Tom Rainey which Brian Morton has termed magnificent and had John Fordham of the Guardian praise O'Leary as a superb acoustic guitarist.