Notes
This work was not originally intended to be a concept. It does however, reveal itself as such as it becomes more layered in play. This is due in part to the time it took for Mark to complete it, having performed and tracked each part individually. Meanings or depths would grow within the confines of it's own frame in a given season. By about the half way point in the writing process for this album, the same would lead to songs dealing with subject matter like isolation or the sense of such and it's effects, in songs like God Help Me. To put this one as the opening track, would take the songs that follow to a level of relevance unprepared for. The sequence of tracks were slightly altered to tell a story the artist could only have grasped from the later side of their creation. For what began as a purging of spew, became a pouring of gratitude and other fine emotions. Mark likens it to both near death and what being born might have been like. No Man Is an Island is definitely an edgy CD with unusual, sometimes haunting melodies and subtle textures crossed with a guitar and drum driven charge that will sneak in some odd time and Prog influence. Intense and at times ethereal.
