Martyn Bennett Grit Vinyl

Martyn bennett managed to straddle the roots of scottish music with contemporary grooves without losing any soul or passion.

Martyn bennett grit vinyl.

Grit martyn bennett s most extraordinary work and his final project is a deeply emotional collection of traditional singers showcased via an avalanche of sounds and beats. Grit will be a grit box yellow coloured vinyl. The real world vinyl reissue of grit features two bonus tracks. The first is a remix of peter gabriel s sky blue which martyn had worked on at peter s request.

The material is split between the north eastern traditions of travelling people especially romany gypsy and the gaelic traditions of the west highlands because i feel that these two. No martyn bennett is a man apart and indeed a man above the vast majority of artists out there working in the folk genre and in electronica. Bennett brought together samples of unaccompanied traditional scottish folk singers his own bagpipe and fiddle playing with and electronic drum beats. Born in newfoundland and raised in the hebrides of western scotland martyn.

The album had been recorded while he was ill and he was unable to play his instruments. During his short but extraordinary career martyn was simply one of the most exciting daring and innovative musicians working in scotland. I loved how he created and handled his work explains peter. Grit was originally released on 13 october 2003.

And mackay s memoirs martyn s last recorded work. Real world records lprw114 format. There have been few more thrilling sounds in the last decade than martyn bennett flattening the usual barriers of time culture and genre that imprison music in boxes. Martyn s remix of peter gabriel s sky blue.

Grit is an album of descriptive music that incorporates many singers that i knew in person or at least listened to as i was growing up. View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 2017 yellow vinyl release of grit on discogs. Electronic folk world country style. Tragically martyn bennett lost his valiant battle to cancer on 30th january 2005 age 33.

Grit is the last studio album by the scottish celtic fusion artist martyn bennett it was released on 13 october 2003 on the real world label. There was always a mix of. Sin an mead s martyn bennett rugadh as newfoundland agus togadh as oilean hebrides. While they share the same label martyn bennett is not of the afro celt line of combining celtic music with africa beats and electronica bass lines and texture.

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