Mark Renner - Few Traces

Mark Renner - Few TracesFew Traces surveys Mark Renner's scarcely released and unreleased material recorded from 1982 to 1990, embracing and evoking wordless translations of the individual's musical experience, and the poetic expression of being here. Something of a rust belt Brian Eno, Few Traces places the Baltimore artist's ambient explorations, composed as soundtracks to guide his visual work, alongside his guitar centric, vocal driven songs traversing terrains similar

Chronicled in a live “field-recording” style at Sidi’s sister’s house

The music is both elaborately crafted and chaotically performed

good things take time

driven by some of this decade's more devastating lyrical conjurings -- of the universal outsider and the thematics of 21st century western psychic oppression

and extensive liner notes by the band and by journalists who were there when it was all happening

It’s a brave and instinctive album that is charged with an energy

ethereal quality

As a whole

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What happens when the things you think are helping end up doing the most harm

A 5-day stretch in Austin

Although it didn’t receive much critical acclaim at the time of its release