Artist: The Green Martin Machine
Title: First Sighting
Label: Navigator
Genre: Avantgarde
Bitrate: 166kbit av.
Time: 00:49:31
Size: 61.85 mb
Rip Date: 2009-02-04
Str Date: 2009-02-02
1. Repetition 4:29
2. 23A 5:37
3. Quayle Paint (Feat. Inge Thomson) 4:30
4. Horse 6:53
5. Give Up The Body (Feat. Demmy) 3:15
6. Rory 5:59
7. PSP 4:22
8. Can't Use A Map 4:11
9. Shudder (Feat. Sophie Bancroft) 4:36
10. The Disappearing Platelayer (Feat. Moff Skelington) 5:39
Release Notes:
2008 was a pretty successful year for Lau and its three
members. Following Kris Drever's collaboration with Roddy
Woomble and John McCusker on 'Before the Ruin' and Aidan O'
Rourke's recent offering of 'An Tobar' it is the turn of
accordion player Martin Green to have a side project.
The Martin Green Machine started out as part of Celtic
Connections 'New Voices' series. It features some well known
musicians from England and Scotland, all from wildly differing
genres whether it be folk, jazz, drum n' bass or even
classical. Anyone thinking that sounds suspiciously like John
McCuskers 'Under One Sky' can forget any comparisons though.
Martin Green calls the Martin Green Machine as being a
'terrible medium for his own sick compositions.' The CD 'First
Sightings' is far more idiosyncratic and challenging than the
beautiful McCusker offering.
On first listen it sounded like a cacophony of noise but with
more listens it is clear that Green has managed to pull
together many differing styles of music together. Folk, jazz,
dance, rock and sampling all blend together. At times manic
and unconventional, other times more melodic. It's not music
for the faint-hearted though, its innovative, its also fun. My
favourite tracks being 'Shudder' featuring Scottish jazz
singer Sophie Bancroft and Quayle Paint featuring Inge Thomson
from Karine Polwarts band. The CD ends with 'the disappearing
plateplayer', featuring Moff Skellington. This seems out of
place as it is by far the most traditional track on the CD.