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Here is a list of recorded
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by Mark Islam,
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| "Mark Islam's The
Recent Past is a vibrant work from a compelling storyteller." --KPFK-FM, Los Angeles |
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"The routine and tortured sentimentality of
country music is altogether eluded on The Recent Past...
intimate and
revealing." --Revolver, Sydney |
| "The songs are peppered with
intelligent, socially-conscious lyrics which are consistently interesting." --Music Connection, Los Angeles |
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| "What Islam does most effectively, though, is paint little portraits of every day people in every day situations, yet manages to play up the fact that these everyday situations have a beauty & nobility all their own that are borne of, not despite, the ordinary." | |
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"Islam knows how to spin out stories, often
of lonely people at the edges of society." --Bostonia |
| "An engaging storyteller with
an equally intoxicating voice....." --Edge Magazine |
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The Calloused Heart Collection (1995)