Not,it needs stressing early Vic Marks the former Somerset and England off spinner, now a journalist and commentator. This is Vic Mars the visionary and rather wodnerful composer. What he does meets Stewart Lee's wholehearted approval in his latest column for The Idler magazine.. And after listening through to his extraordinary new album The Beacons in my waking hours this morning, he wholeheartedly meets mine.
This is the kind of atmospheric, instrumental music, wedded to different values from my standard fare of guitar driven independent music that increasingly interests me these days as I make my way towards.sixty. This is about atmosphere and landscape more than easily recognisable projection of human emotions. Like the Craven Faults album which I fell for big time last year but focused on a different and more forbidding terrain.
This is an easier and less forbidding journey than the Craven Faults record, Standers. I was minded at times of the classic Oliver Postgate soundtracks for classic children's programmes like Noggin the Nog or Bagpuss.
There's a gentility and ancient cuteness, (a Noggin the Nog epsode again) to the twists and turns of The Beacons that caught my attention an won my affection during my first 45 minutes acquaintance with the record the other day. One for the ages.
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