*Updated Nov '08*

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Mark talks about his newly completed record - "Queens English"
Wow...so the new record is done. It's called "Queens English" and I'm off to mastering with it this week (10/13). What can I say? - The album's mostly a melancholy valentine to life in NYC (the outer-boroughs to be exact) and is somewhat different than anything I've done in the past. Two years in the making, it's been quite a tiring, energizing, depressing and joyful ride all rolled into one (a bit like life really, no?) hopefully making for some good music/art. It's also a very personal album for me not only content-wise but also in the method by which it was created. I played, recorded and mixed a good deal of the record myself w/ only my loyal assistant, KP the cat, at my side. KP and I saw many late-night sessions while the world slept, the hours crept and the drunkards wept.

Despite the record being a somewhat solitary exercise it was also just as much a collaborative effort with many, many musical friends, old and new, lending their time and extraordinary talents - My "Pop Job"/"M$M" homeB, Ron Zabrocki returned this go-around on a few tracks to play any instrument that wasn't nailed down. Lee Alexander (Norah Jones) generously played double bass. Morgan Taylor (Gustafer Yellowgold) and Cheri Leone (Trouble Dolls) put down some backing vocals. John Lee (Michael Shelley) played bass. Jacob Lawson (David Poe) arranged and played all the strings. Michael Leonhart (Steely Dan) arranged/played most of the horn parts with additional horn contributions coming from Rob Jost (Imogen Heap) and Eric Biondo (TV on the Radio). Scott Klass and Tom Ward (The Davenports) played piano and bass respectively and Angela Webster (Rhett Miller) played drums.