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Somehow Bennett managed to record Glen Lyon, a traditional folk album featuring the voice of his mother, herself a noted folk singer. In early Bennett destroyed his collection of instruments: "It was the worst day of my entire life. Every day for about three years I'd been trying to play my instruments and I couldn't. Well, I could play them, but the music wasn't coming out of me, it was like I was a ghost, there was no heart and soul in me.
And I just suddenly went into this blind rage and destroyed every single instrument I owned, just smashed it all to pieces. It was incredible. I got so angry I murdered my little family of instruments. Bennett used this period of illness and destruction to create Grit, which won him the best reviews of his career.
Yet he confessed that his illness had so scarred him he was unsure if he wished to continue making music. Martyn Bennett. Star of the Celtic music scene with a unique pipes and beats sound. Garth Cartwright. He is survived by his wife, mother and father. Topics obituaries. Reuse this content. The MBT aims to reflect Martyn's vision of music through supporting performances, commissions, new recordings and educational projects. In setting up the MBT, we thought about Martyn's characteristics as a musician and as a person, and how we could reflect these in the projects we run and the events we hold.
Among these characteristics are freedom, innovation and creativity, boldness, honesty, grit, breaking through boundaries, brilliant musicianship and a deep connection to It has been such a delight for us to work with him over the last 4 years.
He was mixing traditional Scottish music with contemporary grooves and arrangements in a very unique and soulful way. He will be badly missed as a creator, player and inspiring man. He was full of integrity, as a person and as an artist, and he had enormous regard for traditional music — he respected traditional musicians far above anything he ever did himself. He was never radical just for the sake of it — it was always in pursuit of what he wanted to do artistically. Martyn was the boy who did it first, who did it best - and whose most recent work in 'Grit' showed that he still towered above the rest in terms of imagination, understanding, humour, respect and daring in his music.
I still had the idea back then that there was such a thing as going too far with traditional music — and Martyn was certainly doing that. I almost liked his music in spite of myself. He relished puncturing pretension just as he espoused the grandest artistic ideals; was as capable of deep humility as he was of audacious ambition. A new compilation of Martyn's music has been released. The work of musician and composer Martyn Bennett.
Martyn Bennett has seen his musical world turned upside down. His battle with cancer has transformed both his life and his art, forcing him to turn away from the kind of instrumental virtuosity on Then on Mull, Saturday 5th of February Born in Newfoundland, his family went to Quebec when he was five and then moved to Scotland.
The family were close to the travelers Multi-instrumentalist Bennett could trace his family back to the Isle of Skye and Wales, and he was raised among Scottish-speaking immigrants on the island of Newfoundland. He returned to Scotland when he was six, where he was brought up surrounded by the sound of traditional Celtic folk songs.
He was enrolled in a specialist music school as a teenager, leading He spent his formative years in the Cordroy Valley surrounded by Gaelic-speaking Scottish immigrants who had come from Canna and Moidart in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland in So it is ironic that the most concentrated source of his He was the once-dreadlocked "techno piper" who also composed for string quartet and symphony orchestra; the champion of Scottish tradition who spliced it with pounding dance music; a visionary who could whip thousands into a frenzy.
Multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Martyn Bennett, who died in January, aged 33, after a five-year battle Steeped in traditional piping yet conservatory-educated, he was gifted with a musical vision which knew no bounds but remained potently thirled to his Martyn Bennett, who has died aged 34, was a musician responsible for mixing traditional Scottish folk with techno; his albums Bothy Culture and Hardland demonstrated the possibilities of combining his own virtuoso performances on the pipes and fiddle with the thumping beats of club rhythms.
Debilitated by cancer in recent years, he was unable to play on his Star of the Celtic music scene with a unique pipes and beats sound. Martyn Bennett, who has died of cancer aged 33, was one of Scotland's most feted young musicians. He caused a sensation - and much controversy - in British folk music over the last eight years, as he mixed Scottish bagpipe and fiddle music with techno beats.
Bennett struggled with cancer throughout Tributes have been paid to pioneering Celtic musician Martyn Bennett, who has died at the age of 33 following a long battle with cancer. He mixed techno, dance and traditional music as a solo artist and with his own band, Cuillin. Highland musician Mary Ann Kennedy, who presents Sounds of a City - Martyn Bennett Sheila Stewart is a national treasure, the last in a long line of a rich oral tradition and a singer of unsurpassed character, passion and power.
Sheila Stewart - A National Treasure - Sheila Stewart is a national treasure, the last in a long line of a rich oral tradition and a singer of unsurpassed character, passion and power. The Martyn Bennett Prize Queen's Hall Concert The Martyn Bennett Prize was open to all Scottish-based musicians to create a new five — ten minute long composition that showed its roots in traditional music.
Pachamama Productions presents GRIT An ambitious new cross-form, Scots-Canadian site specific production based on the inspiring life and music of one of Scotland's most innovative, pioneering and influential musicians; the tragically late Martyn Bennett. Michael Marra - - Tributes have been paid to singer-songwriter Michael Marra, who has died in hospital in Dundee at the age of The Story behind the Cover Photographically, what inspires me most is the more hidden, non-obvious beauty Peter Gabriel: Martyn Talking to Peter Gabriel one is struck by how he is as much into technology as music, and deeply involved in the political implications of both.
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