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Getta Look At This Mark Marshall's CD New Eye may cause you to blink, but then you'd miss the good stuff by Mary Palmer Mark Marshall is a product of his environment and yet he is the master of what comprises that environment. His 2007 CD New Eye is certainly a whirl-wind of 70's-90's music influences that are somehow distinctive rather than cover.

Rather than going track by track to discuss the music I want to share with you the song The Flame. A sneaky little tune smack-dab in the middle of the CD, this instrumental is powerful...emotive...gripping...a life-expressing and changing kind of song. It begins with a simply piano theme that is encased in a synthesized-string cocoon. There is loss, hope, pain and beauty within this song. I can not express in strong enough terms how stirring The Flame is. The kind of song that is just looking for a documentary to star in, you know?

I could write more about each song, about the bizarre and often insane life that Mark Marshall has survived but that would make me one of ninety-billion music biz folks who are chattering about Mark Marshall. I would rather you just listen to The Flame. You'll immediately know Mark Marshall....at least one side of this complex and very talented musician.