Name: South Wind,Clear Sky
Brand: Mark Fry

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Bertus Musikvertrieb

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Release date

2014-09-29

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SL32

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5052442005483

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Mark Fry

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Rock-Pop

<p>Mark Fry is a psychedelic folk musician and painter from Epping, Essex, UK. His debut album, recorded at the age of 19, resurfaced as a sought-after cult recording after three decades. The reissue of his album "Alice" in 2006 inspired him to return to the studio and record his first album in 35 years, titled "Shooting the Moon". Mark's secluded rural life as a painter influenced the songs on this new album. Currently, he is working on his third album and exploring new musical collaborations while spending time in his painting studio.</p>

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<p>Perhaps still most widely recognised for Dreaming With Alice, his 1972 psych-folk debut for RCA Italy as a 19-year-old art student-troubadour, Mark Fry has been turning his creative gaze on the world, and alchemising its elements into shimmering, quietly visionary works of art, ever since. South Wind, Clear Sky. Sung with that now familiar alloy of cool restraint and wondering innocence, and passingly reminiscent of the kind of English pastoralism associated with the likes of Kevin Ayers or Bill Fay, the album's leanly arranged yet immersive songs are propelled by Mark's glinting, plangent guitars and deliciously embroidered by John Parker's double bass, Angèle David-Guillou's piano and backing vocals and Katie Lang's French horn, all bound together by producer Guy Fixsen (My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab) into a delightfully iridescent whole. Partly inspired by the work of French writer, poet and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the songs are as dreamy and gossamer as moonlit stratus clouds, but come freighted with deeper meaning, constantly oscillating between ideas of isolation and self-discovery; between flight, in every sense, and high adventure.</p>

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