 Alex Coke/Tina Marsh/Steve Feld
It's Possible (VoxLox 2008)
An archive honoring Tina Marsh memory has been recently established in Austin, Texas, with the goal of making available to the public an important collection of recordings and documents regarding her career and life.
Tina Marsh was not just a gifted protagonist in the contemporary music but also a musical activist who dedicated her life to the advancement of arts and new talents.
On August 19 2008, Alex Coke, Tina Marsh and Steve Feld released "It's possible" their last album together, and Tina Marsh's last recording. "It’s Possible" is not the type of fashionable music that sounds outdated after years. Until today it stands under the sign of timeless innovation, going from subtle, to bold and intense, travelling from African to Western inspirations, mixing ethnology, nature. emotions and associations.
Tina Marsh’s pure voice is more than a complement to the magical ambient created by Alex Coke and Steve Feld, evolving as an organic part of them. Highly sensitive, she travels between poetic and elementary, expressing the unspeakable through her original vocabulary of onomatopoeic sounds and emotions, inviting us to a meeting with the unfamiliar.
The free style of arrangements extended over the boundaries of a labeled territory opens the door to adventurous combinations as on the title track, where the intensity and color of Tina Marsh's voice is wonderfully backed by the velvet sound of flute, at the point when both instrument and human voice become as one.
Unforgettable is the unusual rendering of Lonely Woman, or the meandering spiritual Deep River. A little masterpiece is "Eclipse" revealing the impressionistic delicacy of the Khaen, a Lao mouth-organ played by Alex Coke while on the collective composition "Peace Prayer", Tina Marsh singing reaches a high level of dignified beauty.
This is an album that prompts listeners wherever they live, to forget about conventions and learned patterns and let their imagination free, and "live" what they hear. It is like a momentary return to a time where humanity reinvents the music, learning how to express itself by listening to the sounds of nature.
Alex Coke @ JWQ
Alex Coke web site
Tina Marsh Papers
CD Baby
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