Mark Beazley, Michael Donnelly, Ben Page, Tom Page
Sounds Like
1998 : A Negative For Francis
1998 : Rivers Become Oceans
1999 : Forty Years To Find A Voice
2000 : In The Pulse Of An Artery
2000 : Not Gone. Not Forgotten
2001 : No Anchor No Chart No Rudder No Sails
2001 : NewFoundLand
2002 : Waters Edge
2002 : A Continual Search For Origins
2003 : Wish For A World Without Hurt
2005 : A Place Between
2005 : Distant Sounds Of Summer
2006 : A Personal Account Of Conflict
2007 : Eleven Stages Of Intervention
2007 : Fractures
2007 : A Life Lived Elsewhere
2007 : Trace Recordings
Cover art from some of the Rothko back catalogue...
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A Life Lived Elsewhere . £10 . Available Only From Trace Recordings
21st November 2007 : New album out now. A Life Lived Elsewhere - on Trace Recordings. Also out now - Eleven Stages Of Intervention. on Bip_Hop. Catalogue No. Bleep36.
- Based in London, Rothko 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.
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, and then the album 'A Continual Search For Origins' and 7" single Red Cells on the Too Pure label in 2001.
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, Ben and Tom.
In the last 2 years they've played festivals and toured in the UK, France and Belgium.
The recent album, Eleven Stages Of Intervention, is out now on the very wonderful Bip_Hop records of France.
The new Rothko retrospective album, A Life Lived Elsewhere is now available from Trace Recordings
If you would like to book us for a show, please contact Lithe Recordings
Its like a more melancholy, more muted Godspeed You! Black Emperor,
without the hint of post-rock cliché, or at times even like Southern Lords slow rockers Earth
without the metallic subtext - this is cinematic and evocative music in the best possible way...
...Rothko share a similar taste for the dark and the surreal, and frame it in a beautiful mist of graceful,
measured restraint. Quite hauntingly beautiful... recommended!
-BOOMKAT
The music of Rothko at equal turns challenges and comforts the listener, seeming at first perhaps confrontational, before ultimately becoming nurturing. Familiar passages evolve from their improvisational ether, as healing follows conflict. ‘Eleven Stages Of Intervention’ - the band's eleventh full-length release - adds much to Rothko's already innovative and impressive catalogue."
-SECONDLAYER RECORDS
Reminiscent of Samadhi Sound releases like Harold Budd, this is comforting, but dark, wrapped in velvet bass-onomics -- a poignant classic of its own genre.
-KULTUREFLASH
There were only two bands John Peel always introduced in a such a fashion as to emphasise their strength, their implacable permanence. The mighty Fall was one, and the mighty Rothko the other...
Mark, the artwork for the Rothko releases looks absolutely stunning when you see them all together on one page. I am lucky enough to have about 9 of them in my Rothko collection. Vince Deehan
saafe ben, unfortunately i have exams until the 6th of june! big pain in the arse. have to catch you some other time, good luck though, sure it'll be a cracker!
Good luck at the Whitechapel Art Gallery with Will. I'm gutted I can't make it, but if you like I can help plug the gig for you by reviewing and uploading a track on Moose Factory. Send whatever to moosefactoryuk@googlemail.com or 223 Ramsay Rd, London, E7 9ES if you'd like to do this (Will has already, and that will be up soon!). Cheers!
give everything still moves me to the point that i have no choice but to weep. from joy or sadness im not sure, but perhaps its the intensity i feel from the music that im most touched by.
