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“Sometimes a song comes in the blink of an eye. You almost forget that you were there when it was written. 'In Our Heavenly World' was one of those moments. I wrote it last winter before the pandemic hit us all. It felt like a song for our times. I recorded the vocal track in Normandy and sent it to my friend Iain Ross in London. In the depths of lockdown he arranged the song and played and recorded all the instruments. Now, through the magic of being able to send music through the ether, we were able to eliminate the distance between us and collaborate as though we were in the same room.”

Mark Fry, June 2020


Mark Fry is a painter and singer-songwriter whose debut album 'Dreaming With Alice', recorded in Rome in 1971, is regarded as a psych-folk classic. He returned to the studio after an absence of nearly 40 years with the critically acclaimed album 'I Lived In Trees', recorded in collaboration with The A. Lords and released by Second Language in 2011. It was followed in 2014 by the Guy Fixsen-produced 'South Wind, Clear Sky', also on the Second Language label, inspired by the life of Antoine de Saint Exupéry, the French writer, philosopher and aviator. In 2019 Mark completed a further album, 'Like A Hummingbird’s Shadow', produced by Nick Franglen, that is yet to be released. He has performed live in the UK, US, Japan, Norway and Spain.

Iain Ross is a musician, composer and producer. He has recorded and toured with Barry Adamson, Laika, Mark Fry, Jake Morley, Garmana, Sally Barker, Tom McKean & The Emperors, Mally Harpaz and many other artists. He has composed film soundtracks and dance pieces, designed sound for theatre shows and performed with a pyro-acrobatic circus.

Mark Fry’s 1972 debut album, the acid-folk benchmark ‘Dreaming With Alice’, was followed four decades later by a critically acclaimed 2011 collaboration with The A. Lords, the pastoral ‘I Lived In Trees’, and a further album inspired by the life of Saint-Exupéry, ‘South Wind, Clear Sky’, both released on Second Language.

1. markfry.co.uk