Lead track from the new Sketches from an Island Album. Sketches from an Island Blog. The Itunes Pre Order Link allows for the immediate download of this track. Official Album Announcement here.

Mark Barrot
Sketches From An Island
International Feel
Street: 06.02
Mark Barrot = Instrumental Pink Floyd / Monster Rally + Todd Terje
If you follow the surfing community, even casually, then you might know the name Ozzie Wright and his colorful piece of art, “Anti Bad Vibe Shield”. Mark Barrot’s new album could be the soundtrack for that piece of art. It starts off with a smooth, island-funk intro that sounds like something from Ethiopian jazz legend Mulatu Astatke. As great as that intro is, it still sounds like something I’ve heard before. It’s fun, but not entirely original. But as the album progresses, the tempo continually calms and becomes something foreign to me. There’s some Spanish guitar, unusual percussion and world sounds. Although the music feels like it could fit on a Sounds of Nature compilation, it still strikes me as bizarre, even as it relaxes me. It’s like stepping into Salvador Dalí’s “The Persistence of Memory” painting and somehow feeling at peace.

Check out the follow up:

a1 Right 4 Me a2 The Mysterious Island Of Dr Nimm b1 Cirrus & Cumulus b2 Der Stern, Der Nie Vergeht http://www.juno.co.uk/products/mark-barrott-sketches-from-an-island-3/579152-01/ http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/prod/MarkBarrott-SketchesFromAnIsland3-InternationalFeel-104209.html http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/mark-barrott-sketches-from-an-island-3-pre-o-international-feel/131092 Two years ago, as his first summer in Ibiza beckoned, Mark Barrott was heading off to bed one night when he had an idea for a track. That was the first track to feature the infamous Uruguayan Botanist Dr Nimm and spawned what ultimately became the first Sketches from an Island EP. Although International Feel are known for sometimes been a little mysterious and contrarian, that first EP was only a 300 press as Barrott didn’t think that many people would be into what he called ‘slow, weird music’…it turned out he was wrong, it sold out on the day of release and that coming winter, he hunkered down to work on what became last years acclaimed ‘Sketches from an Island’ LP, lauded by everyone from Terje to Trevor Jackson, it’s evocative, melody driven atmospherics and beautiful birds of paradise artwork has taken on a life of it’s own. He briefly broke cover again last winter with those Tuff City Kids for the Balearic classic ‘Balanzat’ and again in April this year, with the ultra deep ‘Bush Society’, but as soon as the first sunset of the year forms on the horizon, Barrott’s thoughts always go back to his beloved Sketches project and he now returns with four new tracks for EP 3, again with beautiful artwork from Stevie Anderson. ‘Right 4 me’ feels like the natural successor to the sunshine in a bottle vibe of ‘Baby Come Home’ and he also revisits the bizarre world of Dr Nimm (this time via his Mysterious Island ). The polyrhythm’s of ‘Cirrus & Culumus’ trace his love of Ghanan Music & Steve Reich and closing track ‘der Stern, der nie vergeht’ is reminiscent of every beautiful sunset you’ve never seen, blended with the delicate sounds of Roedelius and recontextualized for his Sketches world. Although now firmly entrenched in his Ibizan compound, this summer will see Barrott break cover to take up a residency at Harvey’s Mercury Rising night at Pikes and also provide sunrise sounds at this years final Garden Festival, before decamping back to Ibiza to start work on the second Sketches from an Island LP. http://www.internationalfeel.com http://www.facebook.com/internationalfeelrecordings