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From the album, 'I Lived In Trees,' out now on Second Language Music : 
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Mark Fry/The A Lords - Ruins Of Stone

From the album, 'Public Flowers,' out now on Second Language Music  : http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/


Robin Saville - In Konik Mokkin

From the album, 'Sir Oliffe Leigh & Other Ghosts,' out now on Second Language Music : www.secondlanguagemusic.com

Oliver Cherer - Millions

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

Glen Johnson/Kristina Pulejkova - Heart Eight

Piano Magic - Exile

From the album, 'The Burning Skull,' by Cédric Pin and Glen Johnson, out July 27th 2018 on Second Language Music.  Order from Bandcamp : https://cedricpinglenjohnson.bandcamp.com/album/the-burning-skull-craquelure-ep

Painting/image by Cédric Pin.

Cédric Pin/Glen Johnson - It Was Not Meant To Be

From the forthcoming album, 'I Feel Nothing Most Days,' out 26th April 2019 on Second Language Music.  Pre-order here : https://olivercherer.bandcamp.com/

Oliver Cherer - Weight Of The Water

From the album, 'The Cloisters,' out now on Second Language Music : http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/SL019.html

The Cloisters - The Lock Keeper

From the album, 'I Hunt Alone,' out now on Second Language Music : http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/SL020.html



Directorsound - I Hunt Alone

From the album, 'Ombilical,' out now on Second Language Music.  More info : http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/

All music - Glen Johnson except trumpet - Oliver Cherer

Textile Ranch - 'How I Sit At The Piano'

Franck Alba - Frédéric

Memory Drawings - The Same Indifference

From the album, 'Anything bright or startling?' out now : http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/SL022.html


Áine O Dwyer - Falcon

Independent record label based in London.  2009 - present day.