The last interview I've been able to find with Mr. Hollis, re: this album, is so poignant on this track.
From NME, February 14, 1998:
He recorded with only one pair of microphones so that there was a 'space' to the record that you can 'locate yourself in'. He worked entirely acoustically for two reasons. "One is because they exist out of any time frame, and secondly, when you hit them at a very low level they have an area of tonality and a degree of fragility within them which is very special."
Hollis isn't 'it' he is OF 'it'- genius, simply genius. And I truly cannot imagine anyone who can create something as beautiful as this being able to function comfortably in a life anything other than reclusive. Totally understood here...
This is the most beautiful track on the album...his voice is just perfect. I turn it up full volume just to hear all the slightest mouth movements and whispers.
Brilliant song, Mark Hollis has got to be the most overlooked genious in the music industry.
And good luck to him and his "reclusive" lifestyle, it suits him fine and that is reflected in this truly stunning album
@EdJClarke I feel your pain my brother. I too love this track as well as it is so breathy and warm and feels so good to have this track played very loud and very late in a darkend room. Mark chose a wonderfull guitar player when he found dominic millar to play this piece. Maybe someday we will hear from mark hollis again.
This is the most subtle, extraordinary one-man jazz work I've heard in years, and bought this when it first came out on CD.
I'd forgotten it until now.
If you've ever kept time as a musician, this is like mother's milk.
Mjollnir1234 1 month ago
If a heaven exists, I imagine that this is what it sounds like.
Shoemeister 5 months ago
Mark, please do something in some capacity, in some medium, somehow, soon.
We miss you
silverlake77 1 year ago 2
Sparse and delicate...still amazed by the range of emotion communicated by that one voice.
aviatrix911 1 year ago
@Rowena623 Power to ya, little sister, but I'd prefer it if you'd go spam somewhere else.
SilverBuddha 1 year ago
mark hollis. R.I.P
javierdamien 2 years ago
unbelievable. please come back into the light, mr. hollis.
mavine39 2 years ago 2
Genious, what a waste of talent not to be working
saltmarshex33 2 years ago
The last interview I've been able to find with Mr. Hollis, re: this album, is so poignant on this track.
From NME, February 14, 1998:
He recorded with only one pair of microphones so that there was a 'space' to the record that you can 'locate yourself in'. He worked entirely acoustically for two reasons. "One is because they exist out of any time frame, and secondly, when you hit them at a very low level they have an area of tonality and a degree of fragility within them which is very special."
svenjuice 2 years ago
wow.
today is the best day to listen this music. i know it well, but it fucking nailed me right now. wow
fujitascale 2 years ago
Hollis isn't 'it' he is OF 'it'- genius, simply genius. And I truly cannot imagine anyone who can create something as beautiful as this being able to function comfortably in a life anything other than reclusive. Totally understood here...
yikesmt 3 years ago 8
...every tears of this sound, every color of that symphony will be in eternity...amazing perfection!
iosonoorko 3 years ago
This is perfection. It's been 10 years... and I don't think it sounds a day old.
I just wish he'd do something new. :(
marshalsea 3 years ago
I agree,a thing of beauty!Some great tunes are left behind the huge industrial cogs of music.
haz2evo 3 years ago 3
How has this not got a rating, or any feedback?
This is the most beautiful track on the album...his voice is just perfect. I turn it up full volume just to hear all the slightest mouth movements and whispers.
Brilliant song, Mark Hollis has got to be the most overlooked genious in the music industry.
And good luck to him and his "reclusive" lifestyle, it suits him fine and that is reflected in this truly stunning album
EdJClarke 3 years ago 15
@EdJClarke I feel your pain my brother. I too love this track as well as it is so breathy and warm and feels so good to have this track played very loud and very late in a darkend room. Mark chose a wonderfull guitar player when he found dominic millar to play this piece. Maybe someday we will hear from mark hollis again.
spotwheels 1 year ago 2