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pre-released on March 2nd, 2014 as issue # 28 on www.other-people.net

Out on digital and vinyl on March 31st, 2014 .

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Drew Gragg - Refraction

From the album, 'South Wind,Clear Sky,' out now on Second Language Music.  www.secondlanguagemusic.com

Perhaps still most widely recognised for Dreaming With Alice, his 1972 psych-folk debut for RCA Italy as a 19-year-old art student-troubadour, Mark Fry has been turning his creative gaze on the world, and alchemising its elements into shimmering, quietly visionary works of art, ever since. Certainly not an artist who dances to the music of time in any conventional sense, Mark, a respected, and collected, painter, most often to be found holed up in his Normandy farmhouse studio, allowed more than three decades to glide by before recording Alice’s follow up, 2008’s Shooting The Moon. His subsequent musical activity has been frenetic by comparison.

Mark’s beguiling, Arcadian-flavoured 2011 Second Language album, I Lived In Trees, recorded in collaboration with The A. Lords – musicians from a more recent generation of psychedelic-folk experimenters – proved a major critical hit, demonstrating that Mark Fry’s musical stock lay not only in the Paisley-hued haze of his Aquarian Age youth, but also in the full glare of the postmodern, internet-facilitated present. A series of concerts in Japan and Scandinavia, and a widely reported ‘supergroup’ London showcase, featuring members of Mercury Rev, Super Furry Animals, Tunng and Lemon Jelly, further evinced the subtle but inexorable diffusion of the Mark Fry legend, something abetted by BBC Radio 4’s Today programme airing an interview with Mark in the wake of Trees’ release.

All of which brings us to Mark Fry’s latest, most exquisitely realised musical offering to date, South Wind, Clear Sky. Sung with that now familiar alloy of cool restraint and wondering innocence, and passingly reminiscent of the kind of English pastoralism associated with the likes of Kevin Ayers or Bill Fay, the album’s leanly arranged yet immersive songs are propelled by Mark’s glinting, plangent guitars and deliciously embroidered by John Parker’s double bass, Angèle David-Guillou’s piano and backing vocals and Katie Lang’s French horn, all bound together by producer Guy Fixsen (My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab) into a delightfully iridescent whole. For all its finely honed arrangements, and the translucence of its recording, South Wind, Clear Sky is still very much the work of the man who made Dreaming With Alice; the mature Mark Fry’s feeling for wonderment and magic, for the dreamlike and the innocently surreal, is just as pervasive, and persuasive here, only more focused, and etched against a more luminous, even heavenly canvas.

Where the lyrics on his last album found Mark reaching up through the summer branches toward an azure sky, here that celestial dimension provides the focus for eight shimmering chamber-folk essays whose wistful narratives of flight and fancy and empyrean romance purr and soar with a stately grace, like the ‘Aeroplanes’ of the album’s richly melodic opening track.


Mark Fry - Aeroplanes

Against The Sky (Brian Eno, Harold Budd) KP Sessions Re - Edit

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John Roberts' Paloma is one of the most interesting tunes of the collection, a track that confirms the American producer's recent return to an even lusher battery of sounds, drifting more freely towards John Cage'ian shores and melting elements as diverse as nervous guitar vibratos and strings getting distorted in an background orgy of swashing percussions.

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John Roberts - Paloma [Dial]

The music begins like the last warm breath of summer. The piano draws fine lines across the calm skin of the water; the cello answers in deep melancholy, singing of falling leaves. A clarinet drifts in like a breath that carries memories, and above it the flute hovers—a light losing itself in the mist.

Autumnal, yet not somber: it is a time of change. What is old passes away in gold, the new still lies hidden. The music paints this transition—gently, tentatively, full of longing and quiet confidence. Harmonies dissolve, time stretches, until everything comes to rest in a silent moment.

Then, almost inaudibly, a new sound begins. The flute lifts, the piano opens the space, and the lake seems to whisper: the morning is ready.

The Quiet Whisper Of The Lake at Dawn

christina perri - a thousand years (piano cover)

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painting by Jacqueline Dodd

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Mantra

Many thanks to  Mustafa Abbas Ali and Mohammad Reza Shajarian for the inspiration, enjoy!

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Nlreb Mra Alrrih (Playing With The Wind)

As she blended history with Afrofuturism, and choral Christian harmonies with Sun Ra, this sentiment was mirrored by the collection itself. Given that it’s a story to savour, i-D exclusively share the show soundtrack to Grace Wales Bonner's autumn/winter 16 catwalk show by Tunde Jegede.

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Sandstorm

Préambule

Two Iris patches from the patchpool subscription series - set no. 67 - in a short darkish statement.

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Susumu Yokota - my energy

from the album 'semblance' available on kranky 07/20

Semblance

forma 'three-two'

When you don’t know why
You can bow your head

Forget the unforgettable
Leave it down
Where it belongs
Mmmm
A remedy is what you came here for to
To stabilize the insecure
Mmmm

Movin' on, movin' up
Givin' in, givin' up
How do you tell stubborn it's stuck?
Still tryin'?
Sick and tired ain't thrivin'?

Forget the unforgettable
Leave it where it belongs
A remedy is what you came here for to
To stabilize the insecure

Moving on, moving up
Giving in, giving up
How do you tell
Let stubborn know
Still tryin'
Sick and tired ain't thrivin'

Moving on, moving up
Giving in, giving up
Moving on, moving up
Giving in, giving up
Moving on, moving up
Giving in, giving up
Still trying
Ain't thriving

Prayer Ft. EL Tsid

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Grace Wales Bonner Autumn/Winter 16

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