Rothko founders new duo Rome Pays Off release There's No Simple Explanation

Rome Pays Off release There's No Simple Explanation on Trace Recordings 18th April 2011

The founder members of seminal ambient drone collective Rothko are set to launch the debut release - There's No Simple Explanation - by their brand new duo Rome Pays Off.

Having inspired a generation with their unique triple bass guitar line up and endlessly fascinating post-minimal melodicism, Rothko founders Mark Beazley and Crawford Blair, recording together for the first time since the production of the last Rothko album in 1999, are continuing their explorations in post-Eno ambience and Slint -esque instrumental atmospheres.

Mark Beazley on the recording process:

"The album was recorded over two months of Sundays between February and April 2010. When we started recording, there was nothing written in advance, the only intention was to just see how it would sound with us recording together again after a gap of ten years, and the album just evolved naturally. Regarding the song titles, they are named as we recorded them in sequence. So, Song Eleven was the eleventh track we recorded, and Song Eight was the eighth track and so on. We dropped Song Two, and there was never a Song Twelve. We thought there was, but there wasn't, so we went from Song Eleven to Song Thirteen!"

Trace Recordings is the record label and pet project of Mark Beazley. A label that has released a series of inspiring, ambient, minimal albums of a tremendously high quality.

Watch video - Rome Pays Off - Song 2:

Rome Pays Off tour dates:

(Dates and information subject to change.)

April 2011

Thursday April 7th - The Wilmington Arms - Roseberry Avenue - London - Trace Recordings Night

May 2011

Saturday May 14th – Modern Art Oxford

"Beautifully ethereal, delicate sonic explorations" - Audioscope Festival

"'Rome Pays Off have a taste for the dark and the surreal, and frame it in a beautiful mist of graceful, measured restraint. Quite hauntingly beautiful" - Boomkat

"For Fans of Harold Budd, Max Richter and 'On Land' era Brian Eno." - Under The Volcano blog

"This music's power lies in its suggestive ambivalence. While Beazley isn't recording as Rothko here, the name is still appropriate." - Sunday Times Culture on Mark Beazley Solo Album

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