Rothko & Caroline Ross / A Place Between

Lo Recordings

Like the painter, this Rothko creates giant canvasses of blissed-out colour. Arena - April 2005   For London based musician Mark Beazley, bass is still the place. His love affair with the low end is supplemented by Caroline Ross"s acoustic and electric guitars, flute, and most importantly her vocals. Blessed with a voice of honest purity and lullaby softness, she brings humanity to the previously uninhabited world of Rothko. The sheer-steel, sprung, litheness high-fretted bass notes can achieve is a persistent motif, evocatively weaved into the coda of a reflective lament like "Divided Lines" or propelled throughout the broken down torch song of "Bow". Elsewhere it is employed as a suffusing, rumbling drone, as omnipresent and inescapable as air or light, sustaining and enveloping everything around it, particularly in hte second phase of "The Northern Lights Are Out. The Wire - April 2005  Brian Eno’s original concept for ambient music was that it should blend in with the enviroment, not compete with it. The latest album from prolific Londoner Mark Beazley, here with Scottish vocalist Caroline Ross, sometimes does just that. But elesewhere, despite being minimal and subdued, it demands to be listened to. The twangy, reverb-drenched guitar in Light In A Dark Place is beguiling, while Ross’s near-whispered vocals add melodic weight to the ethereal Traces Of Elements. The results are deceptively powerful. Chris Cottingham, Q - May 2005  

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