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Martyn Bates - Live at the House Of Hive​-​Arc (03March2021)

from No Lockdown Transonic Sessions - Spring 2021 by Transonic

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This concert session was recorded in March 2021 at The House Of Hive-Arc, in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England - above land riddled with underground rivers, and alongside the ancient roman road filled with ghost soldiers where Boudicca routs them still. The recordings form an intimate & warm picture of a cross-section of some of the varied aspects of my music. The invitation from Philippe Franck/Transcultures to participate in the No Lockdown Art Transonic Sessions affords me an opportunity to do something different.

"For me, this time meant that I could experiment with invented guitar tunings and thus stretch out and explore a little (Down In Some Lonesome Valley There Lives Pretty Saro The Deathless ). It also meant that I could unearth/let fly a few of the long-loved songs that I’ve never actually sang publicly during my long and varied career ... delighting in re-modeling some of my songs and placing them in beautifully simple settings - hence the acappella voice versions of the phantasm-pagan song Skull ... and then, the inner stillness of the beautiful and crystalline Licorice McKechnie song entitled I Know You. I've relished having the opportunity to sing the music and words of Sydney Carter the visionary dreamer of the Christ in In Drink Ah Drink. A song and a half, as we say, is the exquisite Brigg Fair, and well - it's simply that for me, this song was a long, long, long time in coming. And, a song sweet to sing again after so very long … something from my song-settings of James Joyce' Chamber Music (Because Your Voice Was At My Side). These songs are a soundtrack of sorts, its true - a snapshot soundtrack of mine, for now perhaps… and my last thought here is that Song is indeed a mythic language, where everything has a narrative, a story of its own - and, that story isn’t always the story that we think it is - and that it isn't necessarily the story that often we’d like it to be."
Martyn Bates


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Martyn Bates is an English singer, musician and songwriter. After releasing tapes of experimental, industrial music as Migraine Inducers he formed Eyeless In Gaza with Peter Becker in January 1980. The duo became known for their unconventional instrumentation and arrangements, and for Bates’s passionate vocals. From 1992 onwards, Bates has run a parallel career recording and performing with a re-vitalised Eyeless In Gaza – with Eyeless deftly blending song with collaged soundscaping - while Bates otherwise continues to develop his own intense and possibly autobiographical solo work.

The myriad collaborations of Martyn Bates include a series of albums with Scorn/Napalm Death’s Mick Harris, several releases with Alan Trench (as Twelve Thousand Days), Max Eastley, Anne Clark, Simon Fisher Turner, contributing vocals to Derek Jarman's The Garden, and The Last Of England), also working with This Mortal Coil, and Lol Coxhill to name but a few…

Read (in french) : Martyn Bates : Vox Luminis – Interview par Philippe Franck – JazzMania 2021 > jazzmania.be/martyn-bates-vox-luminis

www.eyelessingaza.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Bates

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from No Lockdown Transonic Sessions - Spring 2021, released April 6, 2021

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