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Artist: Mark HollisEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2000-04-04
Music Label: Polydor/UMe Imports
Soundtracks:
- The Colour of Spring
- Watershed
- Inside Looking Out
- The Gift
- A Life (1895-1915)
- Westward Bound
- The Daily Planet
- A New Jerusalem
Free Music Notes for Mark Hollis
Free Music Review: Simply Breath-taking, anyone that loved Talk-Talk's last couple of albums, need this....!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
After fronting the vastly underrated Talk Talk, the singer Mark Hollis, went on to fulfil his own increasingly individualistic path of music, with his own solo album. With a sound and structure that would encompass: Experimental, Post-Rock, Jazz, & Ambient. His is a sound that centres around the fractured dynamics of "Mark Hollis" vocals, with an album, that is not simple to categorise & easily define. Mainly because this is centred around a largely uncategorizable sound informed, by pieces of various downtempo genres reworked and composed to fit within his increasingly selective musical sensibilities, and seemingly committed to making huge musical (and artistic) strides.
The mood is a resolutely subdued one, which takes in a mannered and organically gloriously uplifting piece of sophisticated reflective experimental/Post-Rock tracks. Which are in parts breath-taking, or just simply beautiful, with an understated grace and mood, not since his work with Talk Talk. Here, things are comprised of eight tracks, each of which are arguably stand-out in their own right. Songs, with the barest sketches of ambient instruments, and compositions of equal parts minimalist guitar & piano. With Mark Hollis adding fractures of vocals over the top.... that like a previous reviewer commented on, has lyrics that seemed to be chosen for their tone and expressiveness, rather than their enunciation, in the subtlest way possible....its cerebral without seeming pretentious, moving without feeling forced, and a statement of artistic endeavour over commercial appeal.
There simply no getting away from the fact the arrangements here, aim for maximum emotional impact, and frequently resonant with their minimalist tones, with layers of percussion and lingering guitar riff, punctuated by strings and horns, and detached vocals matched with a haunting hypnotic sound, belie a level of complexity and immense beauty, and it becomes quickly clear that the music is stretching for something far beyond conventional pop/rock themes and entering into a more spiritual realm, even if that means sacrificing mainstream appeal, in favour of something more substantial.
And although most of the tracks on this album, feel like long improvised sections, with delicately balanced ambient flourishes....it's the way that each track delicately unfolds, subtly and fitting perfectly into the dreamlike mood of the rest of the album, and feel like evolving soundscapes, constantly pushing the boundaries of atmospheric music, & instrumentation, to a level only previously felt on Talk Talk's previous albums, and thus managing to make all the elements combine, to produce something of a truly breath-taking introspective elegance.
For an album that was generally ignored by the record-buying public (expect the diehard fans of Talk Talk's work), it's probably not too hard to see why this was passed over. It's not a regular album in the conventional sense, with the lilting, delicate and softly-focused performances pointing towards a quietly elegant album, which seems so largely out of step with relatively dominance of Pop/Rock/Indie bands over the last decade, that I'm sure only a small minority; of listeners actually bother to pick up this album. If you are reading this review, then you are almost certainly strongly recommended to pick this album up. It shows an air of grace, bittersweet and passionate subtlety rarely seen in the music, around the time this was released (or indeed since), and one that unfortunately relegated the album to the margins of being a cult release, It's a album that is far too subtle for mass market appeal, but those that are prepared to take the leap, will be rewarded with a creatively and artistically stunning album. Extremely recommended.
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