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A Continual Search For Origins

A Continual Search For Origins

a review by Erkki Luuk of
release format A Continual Search For Origins by Rothko (PURE 127 CD)

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Rothko's sound draws from 2 main origins: ambient and strings. Surely, these are not the sole 'origins' referred to by the record's name. 'A Continual...' is minimalist, quietly seeping its details of melody, silence and sound exploration, serving as a broadcast of emotional qualities like 'pure' and 'meditative'. At places almost "too pure to be true", yielding the unwitting listener a possible subtext of the choice of the label as well.

These fine-tuned tracks really do their best when not pushing forward, stressing out, or emphasizing anything - as they, unfortunately, at someplace do. Those then become these "I sense a great disturbance in the Force" (says Obi-Wan worriedly) types of places on the record.

"Tranquility and peace absolutely paramount! The rest is expendable." As strange as it seems, it's just the way I felt about this album. It shimmers and excels to the uttermost when there's no tension ("annoyance") whatsoever in the track - in places like 'Fragile Strands of Time', 'Crossing to Gandria' et al. Rothko seems to be in command of a special elite force of peace, so to speak. So when peaceful, he is, curiously, peaceful beyond remembrance. Which is delightful, and 'original', to say the least.

Posted by Erkki Luuk at 16:41, 02 Aug 2002

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dear erkki,

life is made up of all sorts of stuff..we can only ever hope that it is never truly one-dimensional..maybe even that it never conforms to our (your) expectations..we have to try to stir ourselves to do 'something' rather than 'nothing'

we have to respond, don't we?

thank you for the review of my album

mark


Posted by mark beazley at 21:53, 16 Aug 2002

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you're welcome, mark, thanks for commenting. that's true, i guess, only that sometimes we wish for something more exclusive to exclude all other things, and it seemed to me you had this in these abovementioned tracks. cheers, erkki


Posted by Erkki Luuk at 22:58, 28 Aug 2002