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.”

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