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Mark Barrott 'Sketches From An Island 2' (International Feel)
Having globetrotted from Sheffield to Berlin to Uruguay and now Ibiza, Mark Barrott’s home life may have a feeling of impermanence, but the same can’t be said for his music. For the past two decades Barrott has slowly turned himself into the emperor of chillout. His second ‘Sketches From An Island’ album picks up from where its predecessor left off, pulling in influences from gamelan and Indian, African and trad Spanish music. The Indonesian polyrhythms of ‘Cirrus Cumulus’ and the smoked-out ‘Der Stern, Der Nie Vergeht’ have a hypnagogic quality, and you’ll yearn to head straight for Cap Negret after hearing Barrott’s sounds.
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