New Music Album: White McKenzie - Absence

They’ve just done launch gigs at Tower Records and The Grand Social - and Ian Dempsey notes them as ‘really top quality’. White McKenzie formed as an exploratory music project with no direct intentions other than to create music in whatever form it may arrive. The process involved the recruitment of several musicians, all hailing from alternative musical backgrounds. White McKenzie worked steadily behind closed doors, content with the final set-up as a 6 piece, the writing continued until such time as they had written material worthy of a live delivery. This is an independent original band from Dublin, Ireland and with an ever-growing fan base, White McKenzie have become quite recognizable through their own identifiable sound of intricate piano, suitably ambient and intermittent raw guitar, a vocal that resonates from the depths of feeling and a rhythm section that can display an engine of strength and subtle diversity in … There’s more