Genre: Jazz Rock / Fusion / Progressive
Format: 320 kbps
TT: 1:04:07

01. Someone Said You Were Dead (5:00)
02. The Girl From Chi Town (6:21)
03. Denny's By The Jail (8:42)
04. Ice Cream (3:26)
05. Lake Shore Drive (8:19)
06. Not Afraid Of The Dark (5:20)
07. Shrooms 'n Cheese (15:04)
08. What's The Word, Thunderbird (11:54)




OHMphrey, is an American collaborative project formed in January 2008 featuring three members of the Chicago-based jam-band Umphrey's McGee (keyboardist Joel Cummins, guitarist Jake Cinninger and drummer Kris Myers) and OHM guitarist Chris Poland, a legendary player who’s perhaps best known for work with headbanging pioneers Megadeth, and bassist Robertino Pagliari .

The bands met and played together for the first time at Martyrs’ Restaurant and Pub in Umphrey’s McGee’s hometown of Chicago. After their Chicago meeting the idea for a collaborative project between the two bands was formed. Soon the opportunity arose to record in a band setting and the five that would become OHMphrey want to Poland’s downtown L.A. studio to rekindle the experience they created months earlier at the Chicago gig. The band recorded over the course of two days resulting in a unique and improv-heavy album.

Complementing and rooting the stratospheric musical moments heard on this record is the rubbery and often tricky rhythmic approach of the Myers-Pagliari/drum-bass tandem. The combination of Myers' complex time grooves and Pagliari's fretless acrobatics (a la Brand X's Percy Jones) lays a powerful foundation that allows immense freedom for the soloists. Poland's virtuosic playing evokes Holdsworth and Beck while Cinninger pulls from a huge array of textures pulled from Pink Floyd to Metallica to Prince. Cummins tastefully adds in both background coloring and a few impressive solo spots of his own.

The band released their self-titled debut "OHMphrey" on May 19, 2009 with Magna Carta Records.