SKETCHES FROM AN ISLAND 2
**180 gr gatefold 2LP with DL card, D-side has etched design**
| Genre | House |
|---|---|
| Style | Balearic |
| Format | VINYL |
| Cat. no | IFEEL055LP |
| Label | IFEEL |
| Artist | MARK BARROTT |
| Release Date | 01/07/2016 |
| Carrier | 2LP |
| Barcode | 5414165077534 |
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Tracklisting
SKETCHES FROM AN ISLAND 2
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TRACKLISTING
A1 Mark Barrott - Brunch With Suki A2 Mark Barrott - Over At Dieter's Place
A3 Mark Barrott - Driving T o Cap Negret
A4 Mark Barrott - Winter Sunset Sky
B1 Mark Barrott - Distant Storms At Sea
B2 Mark Barrott - Cirrus & Cumulus
C1 Mark Barrott - Der Stern, Der Nie Vergeht
C2 Mark Barrott - Forgotten Is land
C3 Mark Barrott - One Slow Thought
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The first 'Sketches From An Island' album garnered support from a diverse s et of trailblazers. From Gilles Peterson to Trevor Jackson, Boiler Room to Pitch fork, Mark Barrott has become an unlikely hero for Balearic music after only a f ew short years living in Ibiza.
Barrott founded the International Fee l label in Uruguay in 2008. Ironically his formula is to not pay attention to th e outside world, valuing only his own intuition, which has more than once led hi m to drop out and find himself on the other side of the world. Barrott's imperma nence and isolation has steered the International Feel label to become a new voi ce for dance music, standing apart from current trends and one that many people are now gravitating towards.
The Fader noted that Sketches is "brimmi ng with New Age arpeggios and field recordings of local wildlife". For Barrott i t acts as a bridge between his own spirituality and creative expression. "Humani ty is facing a big challenge at the moment. We're at a fork in the path,' he mus es. 'More so than ever people are now pushing the boundaries, taking more drugs and seeking sensory overload, driven in part by the hedonism traditionally assoc iated with dance music. For me, it's time to focus more on making healing music, on trying to find the balance between all this wonderful technology and the fre edom it gives us with the natural world. This is one of the overriding inspirati ons for the Sketches series.'
'I am also telling stories of everyday life in Ibiza, soundtracking my life here through local field recordings, dusty synths, some African percussion and a bit of slide guitar. This music isn't abou t finding the latest trends in the way other dance music is, it's a lot more lik e folk music, taking mood, atmosphere and composition and threading stories arou nd that framework.'
Balearic music gave birth to dance music as we kn ow it, but its diversity and openmindedness was lost in it's translation to the stark modern world. As Pitchfork stated in their piece on Sketches, "It may be o vershadowed by billboards of current trends, but the spirit remains intact."
While the original spirit from the first Sketches album remains, tracks like the instrumental
emotional pop of 'Driving to Cap Negret' and the heav y weather atmosphere of 'Distant Storms at Sea' highlight a compositional leap f orward. The polyrhythmic joy of 'Cirrus & Cumulus' and overall feeling portrayed by Barrott's idiosyncratic aural oddities, highlight a composer comfortable in his own skin and very content with his surroundings and day to day life.
< br> "It was also influenced by playing at La Torre last summer,' Barrott explain s of his residency at Ibiza's latest sunset mecca. 'I loved seeing how people re act to the wonderful spectacle of the sunset and how you can create a movie soun dtrack where the sunset is the film."
Barrott also held a residency a t Ibiza's infamous Pikes alongside DJ Harvey last summer. But is happiest at hom e, "engulfed in Mark world, which is all about my wife and family, the cats, sun sets, eating well, meditating, hanging out....and cricket."
A brave a nd outspoken maverick, Sketches bares his soul and heart, perhaps the reason so many are drawn to it. ' This new album is a metaphor for some of the big questio ns. I believe in reincarnation within a life. The person I am today, began at ag e 30 when I woke up on a beach and had an epiphany. I was very different person before that and since that point I have been very fortunate to flow from one syn chronous moment to another. I've realised this journey is the journey within. If one second of any of the Sketches records help people achieve that on their own , then I'm eternally grateful."
Read Mark Barrott's interview f or the Fader magazine: http://www.thefader.com/2016/03/09/mark-barrott-interview -sketches-from-ibiza
Check the Pitchfork 2015 feature on Sketches Fro m An Island: http://pitchfork.com/features/electric-fling/9464-sketches-from-ibi za-island/