Mark Barrott shares new single ‘Butterfly in a Jar (II-IV)’

MARK BARROTT SHARES NEW SINGLE ‘BUTTERFLY IN A JAR (II-IV)’

NEW ALBUM EVERYTHING CHANGES, NOTHING ENDS OUT 29 NOVEMBER VIA REFLECTIONS

Watch the visuals for ‘Butterfly in a Jar (II-IV)’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QgQYdYrwLE

Mark Barrott recently announced his new album Everything Changes, Nothing Ends will be released on 29 November via Reflections. Along with the announcement he shared lead single and album opener ‘Pandora’, he has today followed up with ‘Butterfly in a Jar (II-IV)’. The track makes up half of the ‘Butterfly In A Jar’ mini-suite from the album, following ‘Butterfly In A Jar (I)’. The song represents a dichotomous struggle; music that is too beautiful to be overtly sad but is constantly battling against darkness.

Speaking of the track Mark says:

“This track – along with Butterfly In A Jar (I) – is about learning to be kind to ourselves. When Sara got ill we immediately lost our identities as individual spirits, lost all sense of privacy, which for me, particularly now is a vital human right.  Our house and life was flooded with doctors, carers, and treatments. We almost lost the ability to spend precious time alone. The songs are also about the negative impact labels can have on people and how we judge ourselves too harshly – we must learn to be kind to ourselves and always remember that we are so much more than any label.”

Towards the end of the 90s, Mark Barrott was at a crossroads, staring down a path with a dead end. In his late 20s, coming out of a loveless marriage with a steady job in insurance looming over his future, he felt that there had to be more. A chance meeting on an aeroplane led to a remarkable romance, one that would ultimately be the making, breaking, and remaking of him.

Sara was the catalyst Mark needed to cast aside the path set out for him and follow a new one of joy, of freedom and excitement, of music and mavericks. When she died in 2023, the glowing fragments of a life together – one that contained within it more than Mark imagined possible for a boy growing up in Sheffield – would ultimately lead to the creation of this album. Everything Changes, Nothing Ends is Mark’s 11th album under various monikers but in a way it’s his first, his last. A completely new experiment for him in its choral and orchestral grandeur but one that happened almost without thought. An album filled with such loss and such urgent beauty, such effortless wonder, that it could only be inspired by a person with an undimmable spark. Within it is grief, yes, untold grief; but it also contains life, two lives to be exact.

Pre-order Everything Changes, Nothing Ends here:
https://reflections.ffm.to/mbecne.OPR

Photo credit: Jos Kottmann

High-res images are available here

Everything Changes, Nothing Ends tracklist:

1. Pandora
2. Butterfly in a Jar (I)
3. Butterfly in a Jar (II-IV)
4. Looking Through the Mirror of the Soul
5. January 25th
6. Mono No Aware
7. It’s Just Like Falling Asleep