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Grit is the last studio album by Scottish celtic fusion artist Martyn Bennett. It was released Oct 13, 2003 on the Real World label.
The song was a marked departure from his previous albums in that Martyn's was reliant on using samples as he was too weak to play his instruments. Also by the time of the album it was now clear that there was every danger that it may prove his last, that he was in effect writing his own musical epitaph.
The name "Grit" was chosen to represent the double edged nature of his life at that time, for as well as representing the courage required to carry on his life as normal instead of merely giving up in despair, grit can also be something irritating and debilitating (eg. grit in the eye)
The track "Liberation" drew some unlikely praise from some circles within the Free Church of Scotland and Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland - the track is based around a reading by Michael Marra of Psalm 118. The track "Rant" sampled Jimmy MacBeath.
The album Mackay's Memoirs featuring Martyn's compositions was recorded by Broughton High School the morning after his death in 2005, those involved only discovering about Martyn's death after they'd finished.
Track Listing:
01.Move
02.Blackbird
03.Chanter
04.Nae Regrets
05.Liberation
06.Why
07.Ale House
08.Wedding
09.Rant
10.Storyteller
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Despite his struggles with ill-health, multi-instrumentalist Martyn Bennett continues to be in the vanguard of those mixing traditional music and technology.This, his fourth album, features a cycle of Gaelic songs sung by his mother Margaret, and the family connection is extended with sampled field-recordings of his grandmother and great-great grandfather. Bennett has framed and interleaved mum's bright, delicate yet wiry vocals with restrained touches of fiddle, pipes, guitar, bass and percussion, as well as a wealth of found sounds -- birds, bees, a ticking clock and a fishing-boat's bilge-pump -- digitally transformed into loops and rich background textures. Other samples include the sound of a 1920s threshing machine, woven into the reaping song Buain A' Choirce, Bosnian artillery fire in the bitter lament A Theˆrlaich ñig, and wild Native American chants and drumming on the 19th-century Canadian composition Oran Nam Mogaisean.Profound in conception and assured in execution, Glen Lyon is a bold, brilliant and often deeply moving synthesis of modern studio capabilities and the ageless potency of ancient songs, catalysed by one of the most fertile musical minds in the business.
Sue Wilson - Sunday Herald
Track Listing:
01.Peter Stewart, 1910
02.Buain a' Choirce
03.Suid Mar Chuir mi 'n Geamhradh Tharram
04.Uamh an Oir
05.A Fhleasgaich ùir, Leanainn Thu
06.Hò Rinn ò
07.A Theàrlaich òig
08.Cumha Iain Gairbh
09.Hiùraibh ò, Ghràidh an Tig Thu?
10.Dh' èirich Mi Moch Maduinn Cheutain
11.Air Bhith Dhòmhsa
12.Cumha Mhic Criomain
13.Oran nam Mogaisean
14.Fhir a' Leadain Thlàth
15.Griogal Cridhe
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Track Listing:
01.Auchengeich
02.Euphemia
03.To India
04.Skirlie Beat
05.The Heilanman's Umbrella
06.First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
07.Doon In The Wee Room
08.The Song Of The Clyde, The Shipyard Apprentice
Rod Paterson (vocals, guitar, bass)
John Martin (fiddle, viola, cello)
Jack Evans (guitar, bass, whistle, chromatic harmonica, piano)
Jim Sutherland (drums, cittern, Sobell Semi, bass, percussion)
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Track Listing:
01.Black Is the Colour
02.The North Sea Chinaman The Linguist
03.This For That
04.Neal Slessor Thomson, The Desert March
05.The Eyemouth Disaster
06.The Quiet Man, Erse For Alba
07.Isle Of Ewe, The Dhu Hill, The 40p.c. Rule, Auld Wattie
08.The Diamond
09.West Pilton Circus, The Pumpherston Hornpipe
10.Chance Or Design
11.The Long Distance Runner, Bodhran Solo
Rod Paterson (vocals, guitar, acoustic bass)
John Martin (fiddle, phonofiddle)
Jack Evans (rhythm & lead guitar, acoustic bass, melodeon)
Jim Sutherland (cittern, congas, bodhran, percussion)
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