SKETCHES FROM AN ISLAND (2LP)

A1 Baby Come Home
A2 Dr Nimm's Garden Of Intrigue & Delight
A3 Go Berri Be Happy
B1 Essen
B2 Formentera Headspace Blues (Pts. 1 & 2)
C1 Deep Water
C2 Island Life
C3 Back To The Sea
D1 Sacred Islands



Despite a career in electronic music that stretches right back to the mid 1990s, this album marks the first time that International Feel boss Mark Barrott has released music under his own name. That's a surprise, but then the whole project - quickly recorded and mixed during a period spent living in Ibiza - has a delightfully spontaneous feel about it. Exotic, humid, atmospheric and richly immersive, Sketches From An Island sees Barrott in full on Balearic mode, laying down a series of instrumental soundscapes variously influenced by Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Peter Green and the Orb. It's pretty darn good, too, sounding like a sassier, more cultured version of his 2007 Future Loop Foundation set Memories From A Fading Room.

A1 Baby Come Home


A2 Dr Nimm's Garden Of Intrigue & Delight


A3 Go Berri Be Happy


B1 Essen


B2 Formentera Headspace Blues (Pts. 1 & 2)


C1 Deep Water


C2 Island Life


C3 Back To The Sea


D1 Sacred Islands