Mark Barrott-Sketches From An Island 2: Album Review

Mark Barrott’s Sketches From An Island is an ongoing series of music releases that is designed as healing music that expresses Spirituality in Balearic form. Sketches From An Island 2 follows in the footsteps and direction of Sketches From An Island, a brilliant album in its own right. With the second installment, SFAI 2 takes you on medatative trip filled with recorded nature sounds, birdsong, African rhythms and guitar, all behind soothing electronic soundscapes. Standing out among the nine tracks is the lead off, ‘Brunch With Suki’ featuring lots of disco inflected strings, guitar effects, killer bass and a fleeting flute line, all the makings for classic song.

Further on in the album, you’ll be taken on a musical journey with each song sending you along to peaceful feelings, especially the tracks ‘Driving to Cap Negret’ and ‘Distant Storms at Sea’ both showing and highlighting Barrott’s evolution in composition. Then there’s ‘Circus & Cumulus.’ This song presents his idiosyncratic aural oddities, giving us a glimpse at a composer comfortable in his own skin and happy with life.

Now, one might think and associate this music to the New Age genre, well, kind-a-sort-of. It does have moments of New Age, but it is more than that. It is the elements of Balearic that differeniate the two and besides, it’s Mark Barrott.

—Leo Weaver

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