Mark Beazley

'Stateless' cd/lp

Trace Recordings - TRACECD008 -

Released on 29th March 2010

After 11 years recording music as Rothko, Mark Beazley is releasing his first purely solo album under his own name, and on his own Trace Recordings label.

More orchestral in texture and, in places, even more minimal in arrangement than past Rothko material, Stateless was recorded between April and September 2009.

The album was Inspired mainly by time spent at a solitary retreat in the Brecon hills and partly by his work composing music for the Discovery Channel documentary, “Mars: Quest For Life”, a film about the Pheonix Lander probe that landed on the surface of Mars in 2008. 

Beazley’s distinctive bass guitar style and tone is even more present on Stateless, chiming with an increased level of clarity among the strings and gently struck piano’s.

A new album of solo material is already underway, and the next Rothko album is due for release in mid 2010.

Additionally, for those who buy the album directly from the Trace Recordings web-site [i.e. directly from Mark himself], a bonus ‘works in progress’ free download album is available, which shows the tracks from Stateless in their early form, as a counterpoint to the versions that made it onto the finished album.

http://www.tracerecordings.com