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They say Mark David Ashworth left Austin a while ago for San Francisco, but we know that he really ended up tweaked out on some mysterious island. “The record is spinning again. We’re just not on the song we wanna be on!” Luckily Ashworth occasionally flashes back to Austin and still keeps his foot in the local scene with his connection to Autobus Records. We do wish he’d come back, though, especially after getting a taste of his sophomore album, Bright is the Ring of Words, which Autobus will release on February 23. Like his debut, Viceroy, the new album sounds gorgeously intimate, but bolstered by much grander arrangements. This is apparently the product the product of recording both in his small Mission District apartment and in the orchestra room of some middle school? It’s all so confusing! The song available for download below, “Sometimes it Turns Dry and the Leaves Fall Before They Are Beautiful,” is actually a William Carlos Williams poem that Ashworth set to music, so there’s that. The songwriter will reportedly be back in Austin for SXSW, but the album will have to suffice till then.
Mp3 from Bright is the Ring of Words:
Sometimes it Turns Dry and the Leaves Fall Before They Are Beautiful
Websites:
www.markdavidashworth.com
Myspace
[...] “They say Mark David Ashworth left Austin a while ago for San Francisco, but we know that he really ended up tweaked out on some mysterious island. Luckily Ashworth occasionally flashes back to Austin and still keeps his foot in the local scene with his connection to Autobus Records. We do wish he’d come back, though, especially after getting a taste of his sophomore album, Bright is the Ring of Words, which Autobus will release on February 23. Like his debut, Viceroy, the new album sounds gorgeously intimate, but bolstered by much grander arrangements.” – Austin Sound [...]