'Regardless of what form of media you're talking about, Mark Marshall has been involved in it. In a career that spans over 20 years, he has worked in both the performance and production aspects of recorded and live music, video, radio, interactive, print and internet media projects. He is, for all intents and purposes, a media 'renaissance man'. Among his talents are those of narrator, vocalist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, photographer, multimedia / print /audio / video / radio producer and designer. He has used these talents in a wide range of both commercial projects and artistic endeavors.'
So begins his standard 'industry' bio.... but it only hints at the whole story.
Mark Marshall was born in New York City, and grew up throughout the greater New York area, where he listened to the radio, sang, and taught himself piano and guitar at home. A gentle kid, he was harshly ostracized at school for being different, and, once in his early teens, spent most of his youth alone, often disappearing from school for a month at a time, while he wandered the streets of the northwest Bronx.
It was during this time that he started experimenting with recording multiple parts on a reel-to-reel recorder his dad had brought home.
Fast forward through over 20 years of varied jobs - throughout this entire period, he played and sang on other people's music sessions and live gigs - And he recorded, and recorded...and recorded.
Some four years after his father's suicide, when Mark moved to a third floor loft in upstate New York in 2005, a waking dream opened a door for him.
He describes it as 'incredibly moving.... I woke up with the most profound sense of loss I had ever experienced. I wept for nearly an entire day.' But out of that dream came the beginning of his public recording and performing career. 'The dream itself ...it was a dumb romantic dream. But because of that sense of loss... I knew there was something bigger there....'
It was during that following day that the first of many new compositions, and a new vision, would begin to take shape.
The result of this journey, and that dream, is his first release - New Eye. Nineteen songs that run the gamut from Rock to Power Pop to long-form instrumental - all composed, arranged, performed and recorded by Mark.
He continues to work in the studio, and looks forward to recording more, and possibly contributing to a film as well. After completing a short film to accompany 'Angelina', one of the vocal tracks from the album, he says 'I loved doing that video...and I'm in the process of scripting some more videos for the album - and I'd love to do some music for film. I also have a whole bunch of long-form instrumentals that people have been telling me I should release on an album for years now. But I don't know...I'm not married to anything...it's about being open to whatever comes next. It's about the journey.'
A journey that has been described, at least by one interviewer, as 'Exquisite'.
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The result of this journey, and that dream, is his first release - New Eye. Nineteen songs that run the gamut from Rock to Power Pop to long-form instrumental - all composed, arranged, performed and recorded by Mark.
