Martyn Bennett Grit Vinyl

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Martyn bennett grit vinyl.

View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 2017 yellow vinyl release of grit on discogs. Sin an mead s martyn bennett rugadh as newfoundland agus togadh as oilean hebrides. 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. Electronic folk world country style.

Martyn s remix of peter gabriel s sky blue. Originally released in 2003 this real world gold re issue includes two bonus tracks. Grit will be a grit box yellow coloured vinyl. The first is a remix of peter gabriel s sky blue which martyn had worked on at peter s request.

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. Born in newfoundland and raised in the hebrides of western scotland martyn bennett released in 1998 the best gaelic cd of the last half of the twentieth century bothy culture. And mackay s memoirs martyn s last recorded work. The real world vinyl reissue of grit features two bonus tracks.

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. I loved how he created and handled his work explains peter. 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. Real world records cd rw 114 real world records 7243 592551 2 5 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. Bennett brought together samples of unaccompanied traditional scottish folk singers his own bagpipe and fiddle playing with and electronic drum beats. Grit the late 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 rooted in the past but glorying in modern dance culture. There was always a mix of.

The album had been recorded while he was ill and he was unable to play his instruments. Martyn bennett managed to straddle the roots of scottish music with contemporary grooves without losing any soul or passion. Cd album country. 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.