What's cool about Mark Fell is that his music could've actually been made
10, even 20 years ago. I think the existing listenership has changed their
set of values to be more open to something as minimal and unadorned as what
Mark Fell does - people's listening has gotten more patient and the novelty
of maximal digital music (say Richard Devine, Autechre etc) got enough play
that the simplicity of Fell became extremely appealing. So what's "forward"
or refreshing or whatever about isn't about utilizing new tools that
haven't yet existed or making a crazy synthesis of various styles or
creating a complete novel music vocabulary but making music that works
extremely well in this particular moment.
That's not to say this isn't taking Mark Fells style and doing something
else with it; it haven't even heard it. Just an insight re: Fell that I
wanted to share.
The first Second Woman release sounded pretty good to me, I particular
liked the melodic sheen on it that wasn't corny or "epic".
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:47 AM, Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 6 lines are ya sure it's not too the same as mark fell to be "forward"?> are ya sure it's not too the same as mark fell to be "forward"?
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> i mean, it's not as egregious as those Gabor Lazar records, but it's so
> spot-on teethin Mr. Fell's technique it often kinda might as well be Mark
> Fell samples dropped into more layer-y/conventional song arrangements
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