{"id":636,"date":"2025-05-23T10:15:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/?p=636"},"modified":"2025-05-23T10:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:39:22","slug":"mark-fry-not-on-the-radar-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/2025\/05\/23\/mark-fry-not-on-the-radar-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Fry ‘Not On The Radar’ out now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mark Fry’s new album, his third for Second Language and the first in 11 years, is out now. ‘Not On The Radar’ was captured almost entirely live, mid-June 2024, at Mark’s studio in Normandy and although he has largely outgrown his ‘Dreaming With Alice’ psychedelic origins, Fry, equally acclaimed as a painter as a songwriter, still knows his way around a tune.\u00a0 The songs here are surely among the finest in his now considerable oeuvre. \u00a0Whether it\u2019s the touchingly ingenuous, vaguely Bill Fay-like \u2018Only Love\u2019 (a sort of \u2018love song to love\u2019) or the similarly numinous and romantic \u2018Where Would I Be\u2019 with its haunting choral coda, the aching nocturne \u2018Daybreak\u2019 or the atmospheric, piano-dappled ballads \u2018Where the Water Meets the Land\u2019 and \u2018Big Red Sun\u2019, this is timeless, personal and genuinely moving songwriting given wing by some beautifully restrained, simpatico ensemble playing.\u00a0 Produced by David Sheppard (Ellis Island Sound\/Snow Palms) and assisted by sound engineer Ian Button (Death In Vegas), Fry\u2019s ensemble also features guitarist Iain Ross (Barry Adamson, Laika), double bassist John Parker (Nizlopi) and keyboardist\/vocalist Ang\u00e8le David-Guillou (Piano Magic).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9\/10 – Uncut<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4\/5 – Mojo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘Not On The Radar’ \u00a0is available as a 10 track CD with 8 page lyric booklet and a limited edition solid blue vinyl album with full colour inner lyric sleeve; 500 copies only. More info\/listen\/buy here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although he has largely outgrown his \u2018Dreaming With Alice\u2019 psychedelic origins, Fry still knows his way around a tune. The songs here are surely among the finest in his now considerable oeuvre. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12,10,13,17,11],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-folk","tag-mark-fry","tag-new-album","tag-normandy","tag-not-on-the-radar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}