Mark Beazley - Stateless

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.The album was inspired mainly by time spent at a solitary retreat in the Brecon holls and partly by his work composing music for the Discovery Channel documentary, "Mars: Quest for Life", a film about the Phoenix Lander probe that landed on the surface of Mars in 2008.Beazleey's distinctive bass guitar style and tone is even more present on Stateless, chiming with an increased level of clarity among the soft strings and gently struck pianos. A new album of solo material is already underway, and the next Rothko album is die for release in mid 2010.

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