Rothko

Initially an instrumental trio comprising three bass guitarists, and later on an wall plug for the single function and collaborations of founding member Tag Beazley, the music from the London-based Rothko is frequently meditative, minimal, languid and sonically nebulous, the right music analog for the eponymous abstract expressionist painter. The group created, as an outgrowth of Beazley’s four-track house recordings, with the help of Crawford Blair (whom he fulfilled through a journal advertisement) and Jon Meade (with whom Beazley experienced performed in the music group Geiger Counter-top, and who was simply entirely not used to the bass), in the springtime of 1997. After many singles and EPs, they released their recording debut, the blissfully ambient A POOR For Francis, on Lo Recordings in 1999. While staying generally a bass guitar-exclusive task, frequently using electronic methods to achieve a variety of textures, they ultimately began adding additional subtle components (horns, woodwinds, keyboards, as well as vocals at one stage within the hyperbolically-titled second full-length 40 Years to discover a Voice) with their brooding post-rock sound. The group released two even more albums on Lo (including a assortment of live recordings, Not really Gone. Not really Ignored.), and a small number of others on smaller sized labels (like the well-received mini-album In The Pulse of the Artery), within a prolific 2 yrs before disbanding amicably in 2001 carrying out a tour with Porcupine Tree. Beazley continued using the Rothko name for function in cooperation with Japanese manufacturer Susumu Yokota (initial a 12″ EP, Waters Advantage, and afterwards the full-length record Distant Noises of Summer months), D.C.-structured sound artist Jim Adams a.k.a. Blk w/ Keep (2003’s WANT a global Without Harm), and United kingdom poet/vocalist Caroline Ross (2005’s A LOCATION Between.) Beazley also collaborated thoroughly with Ross’s music group Delicate AWOL, who’ve become de facto unofficial associates from the loose Rothko task, appearing over the post-breakup Rothko albums A Continual Seek out Roots (2002) and Eleven Levels of Involvement (2007), that have been even more instrumentally inclusive compared to the primary trio albums while still keeping a fundamentally bass-centric structure. Under his very own name (but with efforts from AWOL associates), Beazley also supplied music for the Breakthrough Route docudrama The Air travel That Fought Back again, about United Airlines Air travel 93, a few of which afterwards appeared over the three-song Rothko one A Personal Accounts of Conflict.