A PLACE ACROSS TOWN
LINER NOTES + CREDITS
Kenny Pore has the quiet power to bring us to the Place Across Town. It’s Kenny’s place. He controls the ambience without being controlling. He creates the sounds without sounding intrusive. The sound is what draws you in. The alluring sound is what fires your imagination. You hear the place before you see it. You feel it before you arrive. The place across town is a studio, but one unlike any you’ve ever visited. It has no walls, no floors, no ceiling. Kenny’s place is suspended in space.
It exists in his heart and mind, and yet, through mystical force, Kenny’s place finds a home in our hearts and minds as well. Pore plays the studio like little David plays the harp. The studio is Kenny’s instrument. He’s a writer-producer-groovemaster looking to break out of what he calls “conventional brick-and-mortar restrictions.” Example: “Born in This House.”
Like the Place, the House is a rich symbol, a locale where Kenny’s music is domiciled.
The place, the house, the studio are all precious wombs where creation is conceived, sacred sounding-boards of ideas born of the spirit. The spirit escapes the board and works its way through the world. Kenny’s world is populated by brilliant housemates, brilliant collaborators. Russell Ferrante, Vinnie Colaiuta, Pat Coil, Ruslan Sirota, Mark Douthit, Michael Thompson, Alan Pasqua, John Patitucci, Jimmy Johnson, David Schober, Rich Breen.
Kenny writes visually. From Marvin Gaye to Pat Metheny, his roots are deep in the soil of American soul. Kenny is a wordless poet of the soul. His melodies, harmonies and rhythms are his way of making sense of a non-sensical world. His soothing grooves help us get on with our own grind.
We live in Kenny’s place. He lives in ours. We’re all here, nourished by a sweet sense of possibility and the hope that this musical expression adds a sense of peace to our troubled world.
- David Ritz
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1 - A PLACE ACROSS TOWN 6:33
Written and Produced by Kenny Pore
Pat Coil - Keyboards, Synthesizers, and Arrangement // Bob Reynolds - Tenor Sax // Ruslan Sirota - Keyboards // Jimmy Johnson - Bass // Vinnie Colaiuta - Drums // Michael Thompson - Guitars
Engineers — Rich Breen, Xavier Stephenson
Mixed by David Rideau // Mastered by Bob Ludwig
Recorded at Sphere Studio, Los Angeles, CA
2 - CALLE MARIA 5:42
Dedicated to Alberto Moreno
Written and Produced by Kenny Pore
Kenny Pore - Guitar // Ruslan Sirota - Keyboards, Synthesizers, and Arrangement // Bob Reynolds - Tenor Sax // Jimmy Johnson - Bass // Vinnie Colaiuta - Drums // Michael Thompson - Guitars
Engineers — Rich Breen, Bob Parr, Xavier Stephenson
Mixed by David Rideau // Mastered by Bob Ludwig
Recorded at Sphere Studio, Los Angeles, CA
3 - SEASON FOR CHANGE 5:58
Written and Produced by Kenny Pore
Kenny Pore - Guitar // Ruslan Sirota - Keyboards and Arrangement // Pat Coil - B3 Organ and Synthesizers // Jimmy Johnson - Bass //
Peter Erskine - Drums // Michael Thompson - Guitars // Mark Douthit - Soprano and Tenor Sax
Engineers — Rich Breen, Bob Parr, Arron Walk
Mixed by David Rideau // Mastered by Bob Ludwig
Recorded at Dogmatic, Burbank, CA and Savannah Studio, Denton, TX
4 - BORN IN THIS HOUSE 5:50
Written and Produced by Kenny Pore
Kenny Pore - Guitar // Russell Ferrante - Keyboards and Arrangement // Jimmy Haslip - Bass // Will Kennedy - Drums // Luis Conte - Percussion // Michael Thompson - Guitars // Mark Douthit - Tenor Sax // Brandon Fields - Alto Saxophone
Engineers — David Schober, Bob Parr, Rich Breen, Mike Ross
Mixed by Mick Guzauski // Mastered by Bob Ludwig
Recorded at Schnee Studio, North Hollywood, CA and Blackbird Studio, Nashville, TN
5 - YOU’RE NOT FAR AWAY 5:37
Written and Produced by Kenny Pore
Kenny Pore - Guitar // Russell Ferrante - Keyboards and Arrangement // Alan Pasqua - Acoustic Piano // Jimmy Haslip - Bass // Will Kennedy - Drums // Bob Sheppard - Soprano Sax // Michael Thompson - Guitars // Alex Acuna - Percussion
Engineer — David Schober
Mixed by Rich Breen // Mastered by Bob Ludwig
Recorded at Schnee Studio, North Hollywood, CA
6 - WHEN EAST MEETS WEST 5:44
Written and Produced by Kenny Pore // Co-Produced by Jimmy Haslip
Kenny Pore - Guitar // Russell Ferrante - Keyboards // Vinnie Colaiuta - Drums // Luis Conte - Percussion // Jimmy Haslip - Bass // Mark Douthit - Tenor Sax // Paul Jackson, Jr. - Guitars // Michael Thompson - Guitars
Engineers — Bill Schnee, David Schober, Rich Breen, Bob Parr, Wesley Seidman, Mike Ross
Mixed by Mick Guzauski // Mastered by Bob Ludwig
Recorded at United Recording, Hollywood, CA
7 - MARY JANE 3:56
Dedicated to Mary Jane Zitano, Mom
Written and Produced by Kenny Pore
Kenny Pore - Guitar // Ruslan Sirota - Keyboards and Arrangement // Pat Coil - Synthesizers // Jimmy Johnson - Bass // Vinnie Colaiuta - Drums // Domnic Amato - Sax // Michael Thompson - Guitars
Engineers — Rich Breen, Bob Parr, Xavier Stephenson
Mixed by David Rideau // Mastered by Bob Ludwig
Recorded at Sphere Studio, Los Angeles, CA
8 - THOUGHTS OF YOU 5:44
Written and Produced by Kenny Pore // Co-Produced by Jimmy Haslip
Kenny Pore - Guitar // Pat Coil - Synthesizers and Arrangement // Russell Ferrante - Keyboards // Vinnie Colaiuta - Drums // Jimmy Haslip - Bass // Luis Conte - Percussion // Mark Douthit - Tenor Sax // Michael Thompson - Guitars
Engineers — Bill Schnee, David Schober, Wesley Seidman, Mike Ross, Bob Parr
Mixed by Rich Breen // Mastered by Bob Ludwig
Recorded at United Recording, Hollywood, CA
9 - SUNSET 6:55
Written and Produced by Kenny Pore
Alan Pasqua - Acoustic Piano // Pat Coil - Synthesizers and Keyboards // John Patitucci - Bass // Vinnie Colaiuta - Drums // Alex Acuna - Percussion // Michael Thompson - Guitars // Bob Reynolds - Tenor Sax
Engineers — Bob Parr, Doug Epstein, Angelo Duran, Wally Grant
Mixed by Rich Breen // Mastered by Bob Ludwig
Recorded at Dogmatic, Burbank, CA and Savannah Studio, Denton, TX
10 - ANOTHER PLACE ACROSS TOWN 6:37
Written and Produced by Kenny Pore
Pat Coil - Keyboards and Arrangement // Alan Pasqua - Acoustic Piano // John Patitucci - Bass // Scott Williamson - Drums // Alex Acuna - Percussion // Michael Thompson - Guitars // Bob Sheppard - Tenor Sax
Engineers — David Schober, Sean Badum
Mixed by Rich Breen // Mastered by Bob Ludwig
Recorded at Blackbird Studio, Nasvhille, TN
11 - LA PIEDRA 5:30
Written and Produced by Kenny Pore
Kenny Pore - Guitar // Gregorie Maret - Harmonica // Pat Coil - Keyboards and Synthesizers // Russell Ferrante - Synthesizers // Leon Gaer - Bass // Chad Wackerman - Drums // Brad Dutz - Percussion
Engineers — David Schober, Alex Venguer, Bob Parr
Mixed by Rich Breen // Mastered by Bob Ludwig
Recorded at Schnee Studio, North Hollywood, CA