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Mahl Dynasty: Borderline (CD, 71:20); NMA 002

	This band labels itself as “structured Neo-fusion”. Guy LeBlanc is tons of playful keys and 
drums. He creates, arranges, and performs each of 15 songs on a KORG M1. Alain Paluck drums 
on 13 songs and Richard Lafontaine guest drums on the other tracks. Songs timeout from 2:32 to 
7:13.
	LeBlanc gives peppy, jazzy, light-hearted, upbeat keyboard jams. Jazz is emphasized but in a 
pop, bee bop, jivin’ kinda funked-up flow. The keys are voiced in that Pee Wee Herman’s 
Playhouse soundtrack style. A cartoonish element is unavoidable. Ren and Stimpy get down.
My teenage daughter monikers such as “Weather Channel” music. Maybe so.
	LeBlanc’s liner notes detail themes ranging from Bugs Bunny to the Loch Ness monster as 
inspiration. The nearest comparison of Mahl Dynasty would be Kristian Schultze’s, (not 
Klaus Schulze), “Metronomics”.
	LeBlanc’s music complex but repetitively so and the KORG’s synth sax and brass voices are 
overtly pseudo. If this music was interpreted with  real sax or brass, a decent guitarist, and a 
funky bassist assisting LeBlanc et al, Mahl Dynasty might escape the canned sound. Near 
fusion would instead draw closer to real fusion.  -- John W. Patterson




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