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https://blog.zzounds.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/feat-sketches_from_an_island-review.jpg850850Mark Barrott is a very smart man. However, being smart doesn't always mean you'll make great music. In my opinion, sometimes the intellect gets in the way of the feeling. Not so with Mark. On his criminally unheralded album "Sketches from an Island" takes a much maligned style, the music of Ibiza, and reinvigorates it with ideas propelling it out of from that isolation. Windswept, relaxing music that works beyond its pigeonhole.