Martyn Bennett Grit Vinyl

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Martyn bennett grit vinyl.

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. The album had been recorded while he was ill and he was unable to play his instruments. Real world records lprw114 format. Martyn s remix of peter gabriel s sky blue.

Electronic folk world country style. Sin an mead s martyn bennett rugadh as newfoundland agus togadh as oilean hebrides. I loved how he created and handled his work explains peter. 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.

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. Bennett brought together samples of unaccompanied traditional scottish folk singers his own bagpipe and fiddle playing with and electronic drum beats. Grit will be a grit box yellow coloured vinyl. 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.

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. Cd album country. Originally released in 2003 this real world gold re issue includes two bonus tracks. Martyn bennett 1971 2005.

There was always a mix of. 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. 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.

Martyn bennett managed to straddle the roots of scottish music with contemporary grooves without losing any soul or passion. And mackay s memoirs martyn s last recorded work. The first is a remix of peter gabriel s sky blue which martyn had worked on at peter s request. 2x vinyl lp reissue yellow country.