St. Marks
Boston, MA | Established. Jan 01, 2015 | SELF
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Isaac Haselkorn is the leader and songwriter and producer of St. Marks. Prior to the project's founding, he played extensively under his own name as well as on jazz stages around the world as a drummer with the Berklee Global Jazz Institute.
Isaac is a rising synth-pop artist with a crisp-clean sound. His new single, “The Unknowns Blues”, appears to be his first major release. Already receiving positive feedback on SoundCloud, “The Unknowns Blues” has Isaac delivering a contagiously effervescent synth-pop sound very comparable to Kurt Feldman’s Ice Choir project. Isaac previously collaborated with the already-featured Nick Lattanzi, who’s also skilled at this whole synth-pop thing. Lattanzi’s Sun Cut Flat project is more stylistically eclectic and technically impressive, with touches of everything from hip-hop to jazz and Afro-pop. For comparisons sake, Isaac’s more to-the-point delivery seems likelier to achieve radio play with its highly accessible approach. “The Unknowns Blues” touts bouncy synths that travel alongside chirpy keys, making for a gleeful sound alongside Isaac’s amiable vocals. The backing vocal “(Just say a little bit of this, little bit of that)” hook is executed well as a bridge to the increasingly pulsating beat. I expect more radio-friendly flair from Isaac in the near future. - Obscure sound
It’s true smiling is infectious, whether it’s crooked, imperfect or perfect. Isaac’s latest video, ‘(Love Will Turn This) Ship Around’ will have you smiling from ear to ear. Isaac goes around New York and asks people walking on the street to sing the lyrics to ‘Ship Around.’ Such a beautiful video. If you are a true New Yorker, you will spot Jimmy ‘The Rent is to Damn High’ McMillan. - The Maroon Cafe
Isaac Haselkorn is the leader and songwriter and producer of St. Marks. Prior to the project's founding, he played extensively under his own name as well as on jazz stages around the world as a drummer with the Berklee Global Jazz Institute.
Xpatnation takes a look at a musician inspired by the world around him, and his music video that captures the diversity, love and passion that makes New York City the most happy, friendly, interesting and inspiring city in the world.
Isaac believes that music is a passport to both global and personal positive transformation. His video “(Love Will Turn This) Ship Around” engages hundreds of New Yorkers in a project designed to lift the spirit and showcase human connection.
An alumnus of the Global Jazz Institute at Berklee College of Music, Isaac plays everywhere, from festival stages in Panama, Siena and Vienna, Toronto, to UNESCO headquarters in Paris, to prisons and hospitals, to rock concerts in India, Beijing, and Nepal. “I’ve seen firsthand how music breaks down barriers of culture and language to forge human connection,” he notes. “I want to make those connections with passion and power, through the music I create.”
The highest goal of art is to bring people together. To both highlight the similarities and celebrate the differences. To illuminate how much we can learn from each other.
“The ‘(Love Will Turn This) Ship Around’ video was an opportunity to meet hundreds of wonderful people all over my favorite city, Isaac explains. “It was about about falling in love with them. I wrote the music for the album ‘Ship Around’, but they brought it to life.”
“This video captures the spirit of New Yorkers from start to finish. I wonder how it might be different in New Delhi, Panama City, or Paris. I wonder how it might be the same.” - xpatnation.com
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Still working on that hot first release.
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St. Marks is a new pop/indie-rock artist and band. Its music is a rich synthesis of stick-with-you pop songwriting, rock attitude, and contemporary wall of sound production.
Background:
Singer/songwriter Isaac Haselkorn is the lead creative force behind St. Marks, who's members include some of Boston's top musical talent. Haselkorn, studied at the Berklee School of Music, and was a member of its elite Global Jazz Institute. He has toured festival stages in the US and around the world, and taught at New Delhi's Global Music Institute as a visiting artist.
Isaac believes that music is a passport to both global and personal positive transformation. The highest goal of art is to bring people together, to both highlight their similarities and celebrate their differences, to illuminate how much we can learn from each other. "I’ve seen firsthand how music breaks down barriers of culture and language to forge human connection,” he notes. “I want to make those connections with passion and power, through the music I create.”
Returning from India, Haselkorn wrote and produced the video “(Love Will Turn This) Ship Around”. Ship Around engaged hundreds of New Yorkers in a project designed to lift the spirit and showcase human connection. Shot on and around St. Marks Place in New York's lower east side, the setting provided the inspiration for creating a new artist identity, music, and band.
The experience also helped solidify St. Marks' approach to its music: combine the highest levels of musicianship, production, and audience connection in songs that are by turns anthemic, thought provoking, irresistible, and highly addictive.
On any given night St. Marks Place is a kaleidoscope of the human condition. Capturing that vibe in is St. Marks' goal.
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