MARK HANNAN: Blueprints for Descent

Mark Hannan

Blueprints for Descent

© 2002 painted shadows music (789577107229)

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Contemporary folk which alternates between somber Nick Drakesque memoirs and elated romps through the slums of the human psyche.

tracks

1 Scars
2 Perfume & Regrets (just Without You)
3 You Behind the Wheel
4 Other Side of Goodbye
5 One Last Way
6 I Can Still Breathe
7 Rock Vs. a Hard Place
8 Mutual Oblivion
9 The Fasting of Hildegard and St. Anorexia
10 Postcards From the Fall
11 Love Bade Me Welcome
12 Truth About Me
13 People Divide
14 Lines For Departure
15 Cancelled Prescriptions

notes

Frequent raids against the NPR fortified stronghold that Mark's parents had constructed left his childhood rife with confusion, distress, and late eighties pop ballads and tv jingles. At an early age he enlisted in the ranks of the oppressors, seeking comfort through the likes of Annie Lennox, Onyx, Jon Bon Jovi, and Bel Biv Devoe.

And yet, hope was not lost. Due almost entirely to the kindness of a handful of rebels (such as viola de gamba playing Ralph, Julie the coloratura, Mike and his Ledbelly records) Mark's days of blind wanderings were numbered.

Arriving home from school one day Mark searched the house of his youth and emerged with his mother's old nylon-string classical guitar. Sitting there, upstairs with a 12 dollar copy of "You Can Teach Yourself to Play Guitar" across his lap, Mark strummed the E minor chord for hours on end... until, slowly at first, and then resolutely (like the determined details of an almost forgotten story) that old guitar began to whisper its wild and transparent secrets.

Every song since, it seems, has been a retelling of those first faint whispers against the small bones of the inner ear.

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  • tapestry of emotion
    author: sherry

    Mark's music touches my soul when I least expect it. His melodies get caught in my head evcen if I am surrounded by a loud crazy band. The folk scene is luck to have Mark join it's ranks!

  • Unbelievable
    author: Rolling Stone Magazine

    Blueprints for Descent with it's catchy rythms and unbelievable guitar rifts will leave you no less than amazed. Knowing Mark personally for a few years now, the music he plays is only part of the mystery...........

  • Great!!
    author: Susie Soiney

    This CD is great, it expresses many feelings that all people deal with in life. Mark expresses these thoughts in wonderful lyrics and catchy melodies that you can't forget. I have much faith in his musical abilities...in fact, he's singing at my wedding next summer :)

  • Light of the dark side
    author: Adam A.

    Mark's songs give me a connection to a part of my heart that has been lonely and lost, but that yearns for the truth.

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