A breakthrough came when he made it to a club along the south coast in Bournemouth, where two DJs called North and South played the authentic house and techno sounds of Detroit, Chicago and New York: then the most cutting edge music on the planet. Pritchard grew up in Somerset, and absorbed everything that was interesting for someone coming of age in the late 80s: “The Smiths, Pixies, Sonic Youth, The Cure, My Bloody Valentine - and 2 Tone stuff lead me towards reggae and dub”.
It ties together emotional memories of the countryside of the south west of England, particularly his native Somerset, felt strongly on the other side of the world, echoes of mythical and real pasts reverberating through the chord patterns of jazz, folk and electronic music, sensory deprivation and deep emotional introspection, all in a single ebbing and flowing musical stream. It's the sound of an artist confident of his ability to work in any genre or none, who is abreast of the most cutting edge sounds that culture and technology have to offer, but is deep rooted in the history of modern music and its production too. This is an album forged from almost a quarter century of immersion and exploration in the most vital underground scenes the world has to offer, friendship and musical alliance with generations of the most important musicians alive, and hard graft in the studio under innumerable aliases. Nobody but Mark Pritchard could have made an album like Under the Sun - because nobody has had the musical life that he has.
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