Martyn Bennett Grit Vinyl

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Martyn bennett grit vinyl.

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. The album had been recorded while he was ill and he was unable to play his instruments. Originally released in 2003 this real world gold re issue includes two bonus tracks.

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. 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. Tragically martyn bennett lost his valiant battle to cancer on 30th january 2005 age 33.

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. And mackay s memoirs martyn s last recorded work. I loved how he created and handled his work explains peter. 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.

View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 2017 yellow vinyl release of grit on discogs. Available on vinyl for the first time from real world records and amazon 2lp 180g yellow vinyl with digital download card. 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. There was always a mix of.

Martyn bennett managed to straddle the roots of scottish music with contemporary grooves without losing any soul or passion. Sin an mead s martyn bennett rugadh as newfoundland agus togadh as oilean hebrides. 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 lprw114 format.

Martyn bennett 1971 2005. Born in newfoundland and raised in the hebrides of western scotland martyn. During his short but extraordinary career martyn was simply one of the most exciting daring and innovative musicians working in scotland. 243 069 in cds vinyl see top 100 in cds vinyl 383 in celtic new age cds vinyl 22 534 in world music.

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.