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FEELI 004EP
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International Feel founder and guru of the sunset soundtrack, Mark Barrott returns with a new EP entitled Travelling Music. After spending the last few years writing and producing for other people, Mark is focusing his creative efforts inwards & rediscovering his own musical compass, calling it "the best medicine and therapy there is". It's this energy he looks forward to sharing via a number of releases over the coming months, including a new La Torre compilation, a series of Bandcamp only releases, the soundtrack to a new Japanese documentary (蒸発) and this new vinyl release, Travelling Music. He refers to the title track as Balearic trance. Not in the overblown Dutch sense, but trance as a metaphor/mechanism for an altered state, through hypnotic unraveling synth lines and a dash of wonkiness thrown in for good measure. Elsewhere on the EP, "Arcade Scene" flexes its melodic Italo dance moves with a slight nod to New Order, but a version of the group that's beamed in from an alternate reality, where The Haçienda was called Il Tesoro and relocated to Ancona via a Gerd Janson DJ set circa 1991. "Chillin' 4 Work" channels Aphex Twin from his easy listening Gentle People remix era, with added Sketches from an Island/Ry Cooder-esque guitars and the reprise of "Travelling Music" already feels like a La Torre sunset classic, bouncing with sequenced polyrhythmic arpeggios, before gently evaporating into a Vangelis-meets-Edgar Froese heat haze. As with most of his work, Barrott calls this folk music -- the telling of stories from everyday life and being Ibizan in origin, there are always a lot of varied and crazy stories to tell, but this chapter in particular feels like a deep burnt therapeutic transmission straight from the heart.
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IFEEL 070EP
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Mark Barrott: "For a long time after The Pathways Of Our Lives (2017), I didn't feel like making music . . . I went back to Uruguay for the first time in a long while, walked in the Arboretum Lussich and sat by the ocean . . . eventually realised I'm a musician, not a philosopher and got back to work . . . In the meantime, one thing having a break has taught me, is that music is not about being clever or relevant, it's about self-expression and connection, an escape for both the maker and listener from everyday homogeny."
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RBINC 003LP
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Mark Barrott is the man behind International Feel, Roca, Future Loop Foundation, as well as being a founding member of the Balearic boy-band Talamanca System alongside Gerd Janson and Lauer. Nature Sounds of The Balearics is Mark's debut LP on Running Back Incantations.
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RBINC 003CD
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Nature Sounds Of The Balearics is Mark Barrott's debut LP on Running Back Incantations. Mark Barrott is the man behind International Feel, Rocha, and Future Loop Foundation, as well as being a founding member of the Balearic boy-band Talamanca System alongside Gerd Janson and Lauer.
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IFEEL 068EP
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Mark Barrott on the release: "In 2016 I released Cascades (IFEEL 053EP). François K got in touch with some very kind words about the track and offered to remix it, initially in surround for his 2016 show at the Ministry of Sound and later on in stereo. Here it is. It's deep and luscious. Enveloping and all encompassing. A melted chocolate fountain of warmth and joy minus Augustus Gloop."
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IFEEL 060EP
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Mark Barrott embodies elements of world music and a more poignant mood with Music For Presence: "I noticed the mood change at La Torre, as the post sunset nocturne started to get longer and longer. It made me realize that this was a different kind of music. . . . it was a feeling I was very keen to explore once September finished and I headed back into the studio. A different feeling to the sunset haze of long drawn-out summer days, one inspired by the golden colors of Autumn and the neon cityscapes of Tokyo and Osaka at night."
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IFEEL 055LP
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180 gram double LP version. Include download card. D-side has etched design. Mark Barrott music acts as a bridge between his own spirituality and creative expression. "Humanity is facing a big challenge at the moment. We're at a fork in the path." he muses, "More so than ever people are now pushing the boundaries, taking more drugs and seeking sensory overload, driven in part by the hedonism traditionally associated 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 freedom it gives us with the natural world. I am telling stories of everyday life in Ibiza. Sound-tracking my life here through local field recordings, dusty synths, some African percussion and a bit of slide guitar. This music is a lot more like folk music, taking mood, atmosphere and composition and threading stories around that framework." While the original spirit from the first Sketches album remains, tracks like the instrumental emotional pop of "Driving to Cap Negret" and the heavy weather atmosphere of "Distant Storms at Sea" highlight a compositional leap forward. 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. "It was also influenced by playing at La Torre last summer," Barrott explains of his residency at Ibiza's latest sunset mecca. "I loved seeing how people react to the wonderful spectacle of the sunset and how you can create a movie soundtrack where the sunset is the film. I've realized 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."
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IFEEL 055CD
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Mark Barrott music acts as a bridge between his own spirituality and creative expression. "Humanity is facing a big challenge at the moment. We're at a fork in the path." he muses, "More so than ever people are now pushing the boundaries, taking more drugs and seeking sensory overload, driven in part by the hedonism traditionally associated 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 freedom it gives us with the natural world. I am telling stories of everyday life in Ibiza. Sound-tracking my life here through local field recordings, dusty synths, some African percussion and a bit of slide guitar. This music is a lot more like folk music, taking mood, atmosphere and composition and threading stories around that framework." While the original spirit from the first Sketches album remains, tracks like the instrumental emotional pop of "Driving to Cap Negret" and the heavy weather atmosphere of "Distant Storms at Sea" highlight a compositional leap forward. 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. "It was also influenced by playing at La Torre last summer," Barrott explains of his residency at Ibiza's latest sunset mecca. "I loved seeing how people react to the wonderful spectacle of the sunset and how you can create a movie soundtrack where the sunset is the film. I've realized 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."
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IFEEL 053EP
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The International Feel label is a favorite of all musical persuasions. It's carefree grooves have been supported by the likes of Gilles Peterson through to i-ÚD magazine. Spearheaded by Mark Barrott for the last seven years, it has both broken new artists such as Len Leise and resurrected legends such as Jose Padilla."Cascades" is an elegant wash of synths and percussion, creating an emotional texture in its rhythm and serenity in its simplicity. "Tago Mago" creates more action through its dense percussion and temporal melodies, all set upon the subtle field recordings that Barrott has become infamous for.
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IFEEL 055EP
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Stamped white label. Limited to 250. The starter before the main course.
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IFEEL 045EP
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180-gram vinyl. Mark Barrott returns to his acclaimed Sketches from an Island project. "Right 4 Me" feels like the natural successor to the sunshine-in-a-bottle vibe of "Baby Come Home" from the first Sketches EP, the polyrhythms of "Cirrus & Culumus" trace Barrott's love of Ghanaian music and Steve Reich, and "Der Stern, Der Nie Vergeht" blends sunsets with the delicate sounds of Roedelius. Precedes Barrott's residency at Harvey's Mercury Rising night at Pikes, his appearance at the final Garden Festival, and his return to Ibiza to begin work on the second Sketches from an Island album. Artwork by Stevie Anderson.
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IFEEL 041EP
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180-gram vinyl. Mark Barrott has been making waves under numerous aliases and with several releases on International Feel since inception, but has now, as of 2014's beautiful Sketches from an Island album (IFEEL 029CD/LP), starting working under his own name. Bush Society is a Sketches lean on a different path. A field recording from his time living in South America breathes "Bush Society" into life, before the Goji drums and Brazilian percussion are joined by a four/four groove and those Carl Craig-esque strings. "Saviours Or Savages?" shows Barrott in deep Ibiza mode again, leaning toward the acclaimed Balearic Sketches sound.
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IFEEL 029LP
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2016 repressed; Double LP version in gatefold sleeve; 180 gram heavy weight vinyl. Mark Barrott's Sketches from an Island compresses this Balearic heartbeat into nine warm gems which paint a picture of the island, the people, and the magnetic beauty that pulses through it. Recorded in Ibiza's northern hills using "weird percussion, some slide guitars and a few borrowed synths," it's a melodic and mysterious representation of a place seeped in a rich and rebellious history. Opening track "Baby Come Home" radiates with carefree tropical sounds and upbeat harmonies. The blues-soaked melodies of "Essene" perfectly navigates the tension between heart-bursting happiness and melancholy and "Go Berri Be Happy" is like Prefab Sprout gone to Ghana. Its color-smudged, hazy emotions swirl between Brian Eno, Penguin Café Orchestra and Compass Point vibes into a free-flowing cascade of live playing and synthesized sound, perfectly epitomized on the future classic "Formentera Headspace Blues." Barrott himself is a man of serious musical pedigree. He founded the highly-respected International Feel label back in 2008, after moving to Uruguay, where his A&Ring tempted the elusive DJ Harvey out of studio retirement for his genre-defying Locussolus project and he followed it with new work from artists like Quiet Village, Gatto Fritto and the Italian cosmic disco-don Daniele Baldelli. Since moving to Ibiza, he's continued producing and releasing music anonymously on his label as Rocha, Bepu N'Gali, Flights Of Fancy, Boys From Patagonia and The Young Gentlemen's Adventure Society. The releases covered house, Afrobeat and proper downtempo Balearic and quickly sold out. "Sketches is inspired by those weird, unique little oddities that would turn up on early José Padilla mix tapes that he'd sell in the Las Dalias hippy market, before he even went to the Café Del Mar," says Barrott. "It's influenced by living in Ibiza year-round, and by the feeling of what I think Balearic sounds like." It's warm and widescreen music for the days when you need musical sunshine. Or as Café Del Mar's José Padilla, says: "This is what I call Balearic."
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IFEEL 029CD
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Mark Barrott's Sketches from an Island compresses this Balearic heartbeat into nine warm gems which paint a picture of the island, the people, and the magnetic beauty that pulses through it. Recorded in Ibiza's northern hills using "weird percussion, some slide guitars and a few borrowed synths," it's a melodic and mysterious representation of a place seeped in a rich and rebellious history. Opening track "Baby Come Home" radiates with carefree tropical sounds and upbeat harmonies. The blues-soaked melodies of "Essene" perfectly navigates the tension between heart-bursting happiness and melancholy and "Go Berri Be Happy" is like Prefab Sprout gone to Ghana. Its color-smudged, hazy emotions swirl between Brian Eno, Penguin Café Orchestra and Compass Point vibes into a free-flowing cascade of live playing and synthesized sound, perfectly epitomized on the future classic "Formentera Headspace Blues." Barrott himself is a man of serious musical pedigree. He founded the highly-respected International Feel label back in 2008, after moving to Uruguay, where his A&Ring tempted the elusive DJ Harvey out of studio retirement for his genre-defying Locussolus project and he followed it with new work from artists like Quiet Village, Gatto Fritto and the Italian cosmic disco-don Daniele Baldelli. Since moving to Ibiza, he's continued producing and releasing music anonymously on his label as Rocha, Bepu N'Gali, Flights Of Fancy, Boys From Patagonia and The Young Gentlemen's Adventure Society. The releases covered house, Afrobeat and proper downtempo Balearic and quickly sold out. "Sketches is inspired by those weird, unique little oddities that would turn up on early José Padilla mix tapes that he'd sell in the Las Dalias hippy market, before he even went to the Café Del Mar," says Barrott. "It's influenced by living in Ibiza year-round, and by the feeling of what I think Balearic sounds like." It's warm and widescreen music for the days when you need musical sunshine. Or as Café Del Mar's José Padilla, says: "This is what I call Balearic."
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