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Information on Rothko:

Derived from Forced Exposure site.

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               Artist: VA
            Title: Will Our Children Thank Us
            Label: FOUNDRY (UK)
            Format: CD
            Price: $15.00
Catalog Number: FR 002 CD
"Excellent compilation covering the the wide scope that is modernistic rock music. Exclusive
tracks from Appliance, Billy Mahonie, Pram, Electric Sound of Joy, Wisdom of Harry, Novak,
Piano Magic, ISAN, Rothko, State River Widening. The 10 hottest bands in the UK at the
moment." 


               Artist: ROTHKO
            Title: Truth Burns
            Label: FOUNDRY (UK)
            Format: CD
            Price: $10.00
Catalog Number: FR 003 CD
Four track EP from early 1999 by this all-bass trio, preceding their full length album for Lo
Recordings, A Negative For Francis. Produced by ex-Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde. 


   Artist: FOURTET/ROTHKO
Title: Rivers Become Oceans
Label: LO RECORDINGS (UK)
Format: 12"
Price: $10.00
Catalog Number: LO 09 EP
"Stunning single, one of the best leftfield singles this year! Rothko: have had a single on Fierce
Panda and will appeal to fans of early Factory label/LaBradford/Kranky/Durutti Column. Fourtet:
Fridge offshoot band." Split single in full color sleeve, each band gets one side. Samples from
Richard Thomas's Shoes And Radios Attract Paint & Twisted Science's Blown are
incorporated. 


               Artist: ROTHKO
            Title: A Negative For Francis
            Label: LO RECORDINGS (UK)
            Format: CD
            Price: $15.00
Catalog Number: LO 12 CD
"Fast upcoming London-based 3 piece, essential if you're into primo Factory label gear, this
album has shades of Durutti Column, early New Order, with a hint of Labradford for good
measure -- a corker! A beautiful album full of glacial drones & heartwarming melodics. The band
comprise Mark Beazley, Crawford Blair and Jon Meade, originally emerging from Hatfield,
Scotland and Sutton respectively. They all play bass guitar in the band. They are named after
Russian-American painter Mark Rothko. Influenced by: late Talk Talk, double bass players
Danny Thompson & Gary Peacock, Slint, Nick Drake, Tim Buckley, John Martin, Durutti
Column, Eberhard Weber, Labradford." 

Derived from Motion site. Go there for couple of sound samples.

Rothko
A Negative For Francis
Lo Recordings

Rothko? Perhaps. For the most part, however, Calder would be a more appropriate namesake for this young triple-bass trio's music. "Windows Doors And Other Openings," "Not Growing Out Of Growing Into," "Culzean," and "Roads Become Rivers," are like painstakingly poised "audibiles," their high-strung, plucked melodies counterweighted in suspension. Early on, Rothko frees itself from form and figure on (roughly) alternating tracks, and these brief pieces do often have an essential Rothko-ness. In such encumbered moments as "Testcard," the band's sound is pellucid - that of liquid paint and gouache, of shapes defined with haloes and coronae rather than lines. But, if the ghost of Mark Rothko is indeed invoked by any of the band's miniatures, it is generally the spirit of the artist's formative period (1946-1950). As the squiggly lines and amoebic biomorphs of early Rothko dissolved into saturated rectangular bands and translucent blotches of color, the band's cursive forms ("For Danny," "System Post Suffix") seem to liquefy and soften ("Seventyseven A," "It Goes Outwards, "Newmelodics432 Other Openings.") Strangely, the most effective blurring of these geometries is found in a piano piece, the pensive "Eighth Electric Eel." Rothko's later paintings, so thickly overlaid and saturated with dark colors as to appear empty - yet vibrating with some phenomenal emotional strength - were once described as "velvety as poems of the night." Rothko (the band) never attains quite that plateau of power or gravitas. Such transcendence comes with age and experience, and these musicians may still be too young. Only "Shadowless Self" and "Vessel Heaven" approximate this conveyance of sanctified space. The former blazes brightly, momentarily - splotches of keening feedback flaring up against muted backgrounds, putting one in mind of Mark Rothko's "White Center" or "Untitled (Seagram Mural)." In the latter, the musicians' relaxed, loosely jazz-like basslines finally diffuse into light-rays and luminous dust.

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