Mark Barrott shares new single ‘Mono No Aware’

MARK BARROTT SHARES NEW SINGLE ‘MONO NO AWARE’

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

“Ambitious, inventive and complex”
8/10 Uncut

“While grief is starkly evident here, love and gratitude are too, in equal measures”
4/5 Mojo

“Steeped in understated emotion”
Resident Advisor

“Beautiful”
Mary Anne Hobbs

Watch the visuals for ‘Mono No Aware’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cjRMhd-u1o

On 29 November, Mark Barrott will release his new album Everything Changes, Nothing Ends via Reflections. Following previous singles ‘Pandora’ and ‘Butterfly in a Jar (II-IV)’ he has today shared ‘Mono No Aware’. The track reflects a shift in the latter half of the album toward vast ambient pieces that echo the quiet of empty rooms with the faint whisper of what once filled their walls. ‘Mono No Aware’ is a phrase that signifies the passing and mundanity of ‘things’ as moments of gravity and pathos hover overhead.

Speaking of the track Mark says:
“Mono No Aware is a Japanese phrase that seems to mean different things to different Japanese friends whenever I ask them… I take it to mean that this too shall pass – whether good or bad, so embrace the uncertainty of life because without it there is no possibility.”

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