Mystery Seas [Import]

Track Listings

1. You Looking to Me for a Sign

2. Shorepoem

3. Calm of Dark

4. Imagination Feels Like Poison

5. Trade Winds

6. Over the Waters

7. Everywhere There's Rain

8. Empty Pages

9. Midday Coming Misty

10. On the Beach at Fontana

11. Sky After All

12. Fragment (Little Star #1)

13. If I Could See in Everyone

14. Of Night

15. Gift

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Full title 'Mystery Seas (Letters Written #2)'. Second volume of the 'Letters Written' series from British guitarist/singer Martyn Bates who was one-half of Eyeless in Gaza & is one of the most individual and idiosyncratic of English vocalists. 'Mystery Seas' is a mixture of more recent songs and others that date back to the time of his first solo recording in 1982. 15 tracks. 1995 release. Standard jewel case.

Mystery Seas,Martyn Bates,Import [Generic],Ambient,Experimental,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop

Tracks:

You Looking to Me for a Sign
Shorepoem
Calm of Dark
Imagination Feels Like Poison
Trade Winds
Over the Waters
Everywhere There's Rain
Empty Pages
Midday Coming Misty
On the Beach at Fontana
Sky After All
Fragment (Little Star #1)
If I Could See in Everyone
Of Night
Gift

Album Description

Full title 'Mystery Seas (Letters Written #2)'. Second volume of the 'Letters Written' series from British guitarist/singer Martyn Bates who was one-half of Eyeless in Gaza & is one of the most individual and idiosyncratic of English vocalists. 'Mystery Seas' is a mixture of more recent songs and others that date back to the time of his first solo recording in 1982. 15 tracks. 1995 release. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

"A Beautiful Secret to Own".......2004-02-18

While this inscription (taken from the song 'Of Night'), proclaimed on the back of the CD, may seem somewhat arrogant, it is amazingly accurate. Mystery Seas, the second installment of MB's Letters Written series, is one of those albums that only a few have discovered; however, its haunting songs about isolation and the spirtual development it engenders feel so universal one wonders how it has remained so obscure. Much like its predecessor, Mystery Sea is mostly voice and organ with some keyboard colorings and mysterious, distant flutes. These songs, though minimal in their execution, feel like full compositions and completely absorb you in thier world. Stand-outs include the opener, "You, Looking to me..." (Martyn's passionate vocals blast over the pulsing organs), "Trade Winds" (a tranquil ballad over waves of "white noise"), "If I Could See in Everyone" (a faster-paced song that must be heard), and "Of Night" (a gorgeous closing piece). While some of the lyrics may seem fragmented, the emotions they describe are often fragmented in nature: the album as a whole fills in any gaps in individual songs. I am tempted to call this Martyn Bates' masterpiece, but since he never stops making great albums who knows! Also recomended: the Twelve Thousand Days CD's, which is Martyn with Alan Trench, and, of course, his work as the duo Eyeless in Gaza with Peter Becker.

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