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Rothko
Based in London, Rothko were founded by Mark Beazley and have been in existence since the spring of 1997, playing their first show at The Hope and Anchor in Islington in August the same year.
Their first release was a 7" single, For Danny, on Fierce Panda in the Autumn of '97 and the original line up of Mark, Crawford Blair and Jon Meade, went on to release EP's, singles and three albums, on labels such as Lo Recordings, Bella Union, Foundry, Kraak, Zeal and Narwhal.
In 2000 Mark signed a publishing deal with Mute Song.
The original line up disbanded in 2001 and Mark carried on the Rothko name. His first release on his own was his collaboration with Japanese ambient master Susumu Yokota, the 12" EP Waters Edge on Jon Tye's Lo Recordings.
Late in 2001, Mark signed a deal with Too Pure Records and in 2002 released the album 'A Continual Search For Origins' and 7" single Red Cells.
In 2003 Mark started his own label, Trace Recordings, releasing the critically acclaimed Wish For A World Without Hurt album, a collaboration with BLK w/BEAR aka Washington DC based sound and visual artist Jim Adams.
Since 2004, the line up has been Mark with Michael Donnellly on bass guitar, Ben Page on keyboards and Tom Page on drums and percussion.
In recent years, the group have toured extensively in France and their most recent album, Eleven Stages of Intervention, was released on the Bip Hop label of Marseille in June 2007, followed in September 07 by the retrospective CDr album A Life Lived Elsewhere
Rothko Web Sites
www.rothkomusic.co.uk
www.myspace.com/rothkomusic
Based in London, Rothko were founded by Mark Beazley and have been in existence since the spring of 1997, playing their first show at The Hope and Anchor in Islington in August the same year.
Their first release was a 7" single, For Danny, on Fierce Panda in the Autumn of '97 and the original line up of Mark, Crawford Blair and Jon Meade, went on to release EP's, singles and three albums, on labels such as Lo Recordings, Bella Union, Foundry, Kraak, Zeal and Narwhal.
In 2000 Mark signed a publishing deal with Mute Song.
The original line up disbanded in 2001 and Mark carried on the Rothko name. His first release on his own was his collaboration with Japanese ambient master Susumu Yokota, the 12" EP Waters Edge on Jon Tye's Lo Recordings.
Late in 2001, Mark signed a deal with Too Pure Records and in 2002 released the album 'A Continual Search For Origins' and 7" single Red Cells.
In 2003 Mark started his own label, Trace Recordings, releasing the critically acclaimed Wish For A World Without Hurt album, a collaboration with BLK w/BEAR aka Washington DC based sound and visual artist Jim Adams.
Since 2004, the line up has been Mark with Michael Donnellly on bass guitar, Ben Page on keyboards and Tom Page on drums and percussion.
In recent years, the group have toured extensively in France and their most recent album, Eleven Stages of Intervention, was released on the Bip Hop label of Marseille in June 2007, followed in September 07 by the retrospective CDr album A Life Lived Elsewhere
Rothko Web Sites
www.rothkomusic.co.uk
www.myspace.com/rothkomusic
BLK w/ BEAR
BLK w/ BEAR is the audio-art pseudonym for Washington DC sound and visual artist JS Adams.
His audio performances and temporal turntable installations - staged in art spaces across the Metro DC area and in NYC's Tribeca arts district - include forced physical and electronic looping of altered vinyl recordings, found sound, and media decay along with manipulated voice synthesis.
His recordings - released on Kuma-Chan [ USA ] and Trace Recordings [ UK ] - have accompanied independent film/video projects in NYC and London.
Selections from his acclaimed Wish for a World without Hurt collaboration with London's Rothko have been used in the Discovery's Channel's Emmy-nominated The Flight that Fought Back and BBC1's Little England's Big Swim. Adams is curator of the Triangle Artists Group's annual sound-art and spoken-word fest Queering Sound, member of Outmusic and the American Composers Forum DC chapter.
LIVE + STUDIO ASSIST : Doug Poplin [ cello + effects ] P D Sexton [ laptop + bass ] Renee Shaw [ live video mix ] R H Bear [ bass + effects ]
BLK w/BEAR Web Sites
www.artbear.com .
www.myspace.com/blkwbear
BLK w/BEAR Images
http://www.adams-dress.com/pictures/dogs_jsa.jpg
http://www.adams-dress.com/pictures/ep001.jpg
Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks
Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks is the musical diary of Anne Sulikowski.
She began this project in the Winter of 2000 when she got her first personal computer. Since then she has musically documented and explored both extraordinary events and the simple pleasures and boredom of her everyday life.
Anne’s music cannot be lumped into a particular genre as no two songs, albums or pieces are alike in style, sound or emotional drive. The music ranges widely from chorus-refrain synth-pop to crackled blips and skips of ambience and minimalism to deep-listening drones.
Her experimentations are filled with analogue synthesis, broken guitar strumming, pedal manipulations, found sounds, disjointed beats and barely there vocals, telling secrets she couldn't dare write.
Anne is also a highly accomplished film maker and photographer, runs her own, not for profit record label, Worthy Records, and also hosts a radio show; Bleeps and Hums, on CFMU 93.3 FM McMaster University Radio, [Canada] Wednesdays 9pm to 10:30pm.
Anne's myspace / film / photography
www.myspace.com/buildingcastlesoutofmatchsticks
Anne’s label
http://www.worthyrecords.com/
Anne’s radio
http://cfmu.mcmaster.ca/
Signals
Signals was formed by Chris Gowers (Karina ESP, Evelyn Records) and Phil Julian (Cheapmachines, Authorised Version) during summer 2004, initially to work on collaborative performance for the 2004 London Headphone Festival.
During November 2005, Mark Beazley of Rothko joined Signals to play live as part of the on-going Evelyn Records evenings in London, cementing the core line-up.
The trio’s live performance’s consist of 15 to 20 minute drone and melody explorations, utilizing bowed and effected guitar, live laptop manipulations and sampling, bowed ceremonial bowls and effected bass guitar.
Cheapmachines Sites
www.a-version.co.uk/cheap
www.myspace.com/cheapmachines
Signals Mypsace
www.myspace.com/dronesignals
Pete Smith
Pete Smith is the man behind the artwork for recent rothko releases Eleven Stages Of Intervention, Fractures EP and A Life Lived Elsewhere and the main illustrations for this web site.
Since 2001 he has shared opinions, images and words with Rothko. His first musings with the band related to the large canvases of Mark Rothko and the shared experience of his work in isolation. This coupled with the first hearing of Rothko on headphones on a quiet summer evening began a need for expression and a hope for collaboration.
He has illustrated for the BBC music magazine and a number of other periodicals and is presently working on a number of projects with artists, writers and musicians to simply allow fusion of expression, harmony of thought and the facility for art without necessity.
Pete has worked in special education for ten years and has a Masters degree on the topic of communication through the arts. His work is a direct result of experiences witnessed, problems to be solved and a continual search for answers.
Pete Smith Web Site:
www.pasdesign.co.uk