Martin performs live as a soloist using laptop and woodwind. He is a also a member of various improvising and composed music groups including duos with poet Geraldine Monk and vocalist Julie Tippetts. His long running electronics duo with Chris Bywater, Transient v Resident, expands into the trio Deckslaps with the addition of turntablist UTT. He collaborates regularly with USA based zeuhl/prog/sludge band Combat Astronomy, and with the highly respected UK electronica group Radio Massacre International. Occasional duos with violinist / thereminist Beatrix Ward-Fernandez and saxophonist / sound designer Herve Perez also surface from time to time. In a more jazz centred sound world, he works with the AACM influenced Hornweb quartet. He runs the Discus record label, and details of all his CDs and music activities can be found at www.discus-music.co.uk. He also co-promotes regular improvised music events in Sheffield as part of the Notes & Sound team.
One of the highlights of the Vortex London Jazz Festival – TIME OUT
Featuring Fyfe Dangerfield (from Guillemots), Gannets posit an alternative jazz history in which 30's swing developed straight into a combined form of the free jazz and fusion movements, without any of the intervening decades.
Fyfe Dangerfield - keyboards + electronics Alex J Ward - clarinet Christopher Cundy - bass clarinet Dominic Lash - double bass Steve Noble - drums
Hello Martin. Thanks for sending me the Combat Astronomy CD. Strong Softs influence and you sound quite Eltonish on alto too..great.I think I can recognise my tenor but it was such a long time ago. My flutes sound good and Micks bassoon as always. cheers
The Winter Pilgrim has arrived, bearing gifts of Uncle Joe's Winter Nips for those of us sorely afflicted by seasonal ailments; otherwise, always a joy, Martin!
