Martyn Bennett Grit Vinyl

2x vinyl lp reissue yellow country.

Martyn bennett grit vinyl.

Martyn bennett 1971 2005. Born in newfoundland and raised in the hebrides of western scotland martyn. Grit was originally released on 13 october 2003. 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. There was always a mix of. Grit will be a grit box yellow coloured vinyl. Available on vinyl for the first time from real world records and amazon 2lp 180g yellow vinyl with digital download card.

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. 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. 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.

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. 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. Real world records lprw114 format.

The first is a remix of peter gabriel s sky blue which martyn had worked on at peter s request. 243 069 in cds vinyl see top 100 in cds vinyl 383 in celtic new age cds vinyl 22 534 in world music. 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. View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 2017 yellow vinyl release of grit on discogs.

The real world vinyl reissue of grit features two bonus tracks. Martyn bennett managed to straddle the roots of scottish music with contemporary grooves without losing any soul or passion. Electronic folk world country style. Sin an mead s martyn bennett rugadh as newfoundland agus togadh as oilean hebrides.

Martyn s remix of peter gabriel s sky blue. Originally released in 2003 this real world gold re issue includes two bonus tracks.