This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
You might know guitarist Mick Turner from his work with Australia’s instrumental rock trio Dirty Three, where he shares the spotlight with violinist Warren Ellis and drummer Jim White.
Thankfully, on this reissued version of 1997’s Marlan Rosa, his second solo disc, Turner has the whole place to himself. And he stretches out with loose, flowing instrumentals that wander from ambient hypnotism to jazzy outings and post-rock experimentalism, when they aren’t weaving tapestries of country-tinged melancholy or constructing cathedrals of Frippertronic overtone. But mostly, Turner knows how to hit that long, lunar note — and let it float. Let’s hope for a few more solos on the next Dirty Three disc.
