International Feel founder and guru of the sunsetsoundtrack, Mark Barrott returns with a new EP entitledTravelling Music. After spending the last few years writing &producing for other people, Mark is focusing his creativeefforts inwards & rediscovering his own musical compass,calling it ‘the best medicine and therapy there is’.
He refers to the title track as Balearic trance. Not in theoverblown Dutch sense, but trance as ametaphor/mechanism for an altered state, through hypnoticunraveling synth lines and a dash of wonkiness thrown in forgood measure. Elsewhere on the EP, Arcade Scene flexesits melodic Italo dance moves with a slight nod to NewOrder, but a version of the group that’s beamed in from analternate reality, where The Haçienda was called Il Tesoroand relocated to Ancona via a Gerd Janson DJ set circa1991.
Chillin’ 4 work channels Aphex Twin from his easy listeningGentle People remix era, with added Sketches from anIsland / Ry Cooder-esque guitars and the reprise ofTravelling Music already feels like a La Torre sunset classic,bouncing with sequenced polyrhythmic arpeggios, beforegently evaporating into a Vangelis-meets-Edgar Froese heathaze.
As with most of his work, Barrott calls this folk music…thetelling of stories from everyday life and being Ibizan in origin,there are always a lot of varied & crazy stories to tell, butthis chapter, in particular, feels like a deep burnt therapeutictransmission straight from the heart.
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