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O'2Lis an incredible collaboration between Jane Mangini and Al Pitrelli.
The music of O'2L is an eclectic blend of jazz, world, rock, funk, electronica, new age and chill music, creating a sonic journey without boundaries.
Jane Mangini ,trained at Berklee School of Music in Boston, has a passion for both blues and rock experimentation, which has helped develop her multiple keyboard/polyrhythmic playing skills. Having scored for television and radio, Jane developed her own sense of style which is the root of O'2Ls musical foundation.
Al Pitrelli is one of the great rock guitarists on the scene today. In addition to being the musical director for the Trans Siberian Orchestra, Al has put his signature sound on various successful projects including: Celine Dion, Taylor Dayne, Megadeth, Alice Cooper and Asia, just to name a few. He is also one of the leading session guitarists in NYC working on many film and TV soundtracks. With many Gold and Platinum albums, Al Pitrelli continues to forge ahead with his own unique musical style as evidenced by his partnership with Jane in the sound of O'2L.
Mangini says O'2L grew from a small seed. "I was playing piano with a guitarist at a little place in the Village when Lyle Greenfield from Bang Music heard me. I sent him a demo of my work and he hired me to write music for a couple of commercials. I gave myself a crash course in learning how to use a computer program and was later hired fulltime as a sound designer." Her 9-to-5 job soon spilled over into her own creative pursuits. "In the commercial world, you have to turn around music quickly. I started to write my own material in the same way."
Mangini improvises chordal and solo structures on her keyboards and then experiments with various arrangements. "The arranging part is easy," she explains. "I slice up my own work and use various chunks. Then I experiment with lots of samples. Sometimes I'll play the samples in other octaves to get a different feel. I even create some tunes based on a strange-sounding sample that I then write around." When Pitrelli adds his parts, Mangini changes the arrangements again. "I hone in on what I want the tune to sound like. I start quick, then leave a piece alone. When I come back to it, I usually hear something new."
"It's difficult to categorize what we do," says Mangini, who gigged in a variety of bands (including Jonathan Mover's trio) and learned the ins-and-outs of high-tech sound design writing TV and radio jingles for Bang Music. "O'2L has been evolving from the start as my compositional world has come together with the commercial world where I mastered music-making computer skills."
Pitrelli adds, "Jane's music expresses all the different facets of her personality. It's whimsical, aggressive, angry, sensitive. She comes up with the soundscapes and I add my guitar parts in service to her songs. It's a great partnership." Mangini agrees: "The pieces I write and arrange never make total sense until Al comes in and brings them to life."
A classically trained musician, Pitrelli has made his mark in the rock world performing with heavy metal groups like Megadeth and Savatage. Pitrelli says he plays rock for a living but finds the O'2L setting an "outlet to perfect the art form, to use an acoustic guitar or mandolin if a song calls for it." He jokes that you couldn't ask for two collaborators to come from more opposite worlds. "Jane is a great musician and composer as well as the Mozart of Madison Avenue," he says, then adds with a laugh, "and here she is recording music with a spawn-of-Satan guitar player."
In fact, Mangini and Pitrelli collaborate in the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, the group best known for its Christmas Eve & Other Stories CD and tours that feature reworkings of traditional carols delivered in a hybrid style of classical, rock, R&B, Broadway and gospel music.
As for coming up with the group's name, Mangini says it's a long story.
"Let's just say, we're fans of Peter O'Toole."
