Musicians on Mark Hollis: 'He found hooks in places I'm still trying to fathom'

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Musicians on Mark Hollis: 'He found hooks in places I'm still trying to fathom'
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Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, Charlotte Church, Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry and others on his songs, enigmatic spirit and musical vision

Margaret Pollock, bassoonist on Mark Hollis’s self-titled solo albumAlthough it was 20 years ago, I clearly remember the session. I was curious to find out how the sound of a bassoon would fit in to an indie-rock band. Mark had written short ‘sequences’ of music that he planned to insert between tracks to link the whole album together, or to use as a backing for parts of the tracks.

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