your greedbagpress release - A Continual Search For Origins
It's official. Rothko, the bass guitar trio are dead. After five years together, the threesome felt they had taken their music as far as they could and decided (amicably) it was time to draw an end to that particular chapter.
Long live Rothko.
The trio may be gone but Rothko aren't. Founder member, Mark Beazley, decided to call upon the members of Delicate AWOL to help form the new look band. It works like this, Rothko are now either Mark on his own or a full seven-piece band that consists of Mark (bass), Jim Version (guitars), Caroline Ross (guitars, vocals, percussion and flute), Tom Page (drums and guitars), Michael Donnelly (bass), Ben Page (keyboards and percussion) and Jo Wright (trumpet).
This is not only their first album together but also their first album on their new home, Too Pure. The inspiration for the album comes from the time Mark spent in Switzerland last year "the whole album reminds me of being somewhere else, which was my intention. To create a different space, of being elsewhere, traveling and discovering things along the way." The title of the album signifies humanity's (and Mark's) endless fascination and search about where we come from, and where we're going (either philosophically, spiritually, personally or anthropologically). "With advanced DNA testing techniques, we can even discover who our ancestors may have been, where our gene pool originated. All of this I am fascinated in."
This album was preceded by a limited 7" single, 'Red Cells', which featured two tracks not found on this album. There was also a collaborative 12" with Japanese experimentalist, Susumu Yokota that came out on Lo Recordings.
release:A Continual Search For Origins
label: Too Pure