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Mark R. Heath & Signal Box Mallet Meditations & Translucent Touch - Two-track single Release date - August 1, 2020 Cover art - polymer clay and Photoshop by chichi

guitar - Signal Box (aka Robin Anthony Coe) toy piano on Translucent Touch - chichi all additional instruments, production, and mixing - Mark R. Heath

Mallet Meditations and Translucent Touch are twin tracks, both based on a guitar track by Signal Box but taken in kindred directions by two different artists.

Mallet Meditations

The guitar by Signal Box is a steady river that grows and widens, the melody by Heath carving out the landscape through which the river passes. Some parts of the melody float on top while others are more submerged. Chimes hover, dart, and play, and elements mix and sometimes reverse, creating a feeling of stasis and flow in both directions of time. 

Translucent Touch

The guitar by Signal Box evokes summer and the mayfly, a little creature with no functional mouthpart which usually dies very soon after its mating flight. Just like the mayfly, this track’s melody (created on a toy piano by chichi) is ephemeral, delicate and beautiful. This piece has plenty of surprises as it slowly builds to a cinematic close. Keep listening!

Lost in a State and Mark R. Heath (Feat. Pia) Every Last Single Release Date - Oct. 25, 2019 Art on cover - “Liminal Face” by Nate Anspaugh Cover art design - You Kyoung Jung

lyrics & poetry - Lost in a State (aka Matthew Peipert) music production - Mark R. Heath vocals - Pia

A poem by Lost in a State is the inspiration for Heath’s remarkably lush and complex musical interpretation. Vocals by enigmatic singer Pia only serve to exalt the piece, juxtaposing the fragile earnestness of love with the brutal cynicism of the poem’s recitation. This is not a pop song. Let your mind explore the contours and layers, and let your heart feel all the feelings.

Mark R. Heath, Shoko & Signal Box Fragments of Memories EP Release date - April 12, 2019 photography - Ric graphic design - Miho

piano, production, and mixing - Mark R. Heath  vocals - Shoko guitar on Kaeru Tochu, Yume wo Miru Moegara - Signal Box (aka Robin Anthony Coe)

Mark R. Heath and Shoko craft a strange and beautiful world in あの日を燃やせば (Anohi wo Moyaseba) - it’s delicate, off-kilter, playful and savage. The second track, 帰る途中、夢を見る燃え殻 (Kaeru Tochu, Yume wo Miru Moegara), finds the perfect balance between the swirling emotion of Shoko’s vocals, the measured guitar by Signal Box, and Heath’s sublime and reassuring piano work. These pieces were first performed during the Fragments of Memories mixed-media art show, at August Moon in Tokyo in April of 2019.