A great review for Mark Beazley’s “Stateless” from The Sunday Times 28.02.2010

“At the end of the last century, Mark Beazley formed Rothko, three bass players strumming four-string thunder and plucking microscopic melodies.

Today, he channels the cautious minimalism of the jazz bassist Gary Peacock into vast empty spaces. after Beazley scored a documentary about a Mars probe. Is that why its glacial bass notes suggest distant starbursts, and its subliminal keyboard tones abandoned mountain chapels? Background information has coloured these abstract canvases, but this music’s power lies in its suggestive ambivalence.

While Beazley isn’t recording as Rothko here, the name is still appropriate.

Trace Recordings TRACECD008.”

Read the original review here.

Hear more here.

Airstate are very excited about their lastest signing of Mark Beazley’s forthcoming album ‘Stateless.’

Mark Beazley is the founder of the group Rothko, who have been releasing albums, singles and ep’s since 1997 on labels including Bella Union, Too Pure, Lo Recordings, Bip Hop, and Mark’s own Trace Recordings imprint.

In 2003, the first release on Trace Recordings was the critically acclaimed album ‘Wish For A World Without Hurt’ his collaboration with Washington DC’s BLK w/BEAR [ aka Jim Adams ].

In 2004, on the back of this first Trace release, Mark was commissioned to write some music for the Discovery Channel documentary ‘The Flight That Fought Back’, which was based on the alleged incidents that took place on United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11 2001. The film was Emmy nominated in the USA and pre-dated the Hollywood version of events, ‘Flight 93’. The documentary also heavily featured Rothko recordings.

Mark has since gone on to write music for the Discovery USA series ‘Most Evil’ [series one and two] the Court TV USA pilot show ‘Mycase.Com’ for Optomen Productions NYC, ‘Mars : Quest For Life’, also for Optomen USA and ‘God vs Satan – The Final Battle’ for the History Channel in the USA.

Along with the group Rothko and recording his own music, Mark also plays bass in the drone trio Signals, with Chris Gowers and Philip Julian.

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

‘Two Fifty Three’ recorded by Mark Beazley from the album ‘Stateless’