Just reading the NME article on Flipboard, and there’s a string of Twitter posts about Mark, including one very telling quote from him:
“Before you play two notes, learn how to play one note, y’know?
And don’t play one note unless you’ve got a reason to play it.”
Listening to Talk Talk’s albums in sequence, and then Mark’s only solo album, it’s clear he was practicing what he preached, there was almost as much empty space as there was music at the end, the ultimate example of less is more, perhaps?
@DezB – the best way to listen, really.
There’s a superb live concert recording of the band, I think in Switzerland, possibly Montrose? Fantastic musicianship, I regret even more never managing to see them live.
Apparently, the recording process of Laughing Stock was practically all improvisation, it could never have been played live, because he could never remember what he’d done to get the finished results.
