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Komrade K

About Me



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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 22/11/2006
Band Website: http://www.macjams.com/artist/Komrade+K
Band Members: Martyn Kember: fiddle, mandolin, guitar, vox, bodhran and other noise producing things.

Besides my solo work, I play with a number of bands including Relig Oran and Las Bragas

Influences: Lots of stuff, not all of it obvious, not all of it pretty...
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Darkwaterside

For a long while I didn't believe the tune was mine because it seems very traditional. However having asked many people who are far more knowledgeable about folk songs than I if they knew it, none of ...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:36:00 GMT

The Dance of the Jealous Pagan - recently added track

The Dance of the Jealous Pagan dates from 2005 was initiated by the exceedingly talented, imaginative and very modest CJ Hoose from Iowa, USA.She sent it over to me to play around with and I added el...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:19:00 GMT

Mosquito Murky

This slab of acid mutant swamp blues reveals my noisy/experimental side and was originally intended to be something quite different but once I started adding the electric fiddle it went off in a whole...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:19:00 GMT

All change - about the current track listing

It's been a few months since I last posted something new so I thought I'd have an unseasonal springclean and change all the tracks.  Here's some background on the new ones:A Revolution by NightTh...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:05:00 GMT

New band

I've just joined Relig Oran  a highly original folk/roots band with a sound verging on the gothic (in my opinion). The band's music is characterised by strong and intriguing arrangements as well as ...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:40:00 GMT

Komrade K on the record

2007 has already been an interesting year for me musically not least because I've had the opportunity to appear on a number of (diverse) recordings by other artists ranging from the deepest darkest de...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:46:00 GMT

Aaaaaagggghhhh!

Having a frustrating time. Had an ear infection a week back which resulted in an ruptured eardrum. The pain has more or less gone but I've virtually no hearing in my right ear. I'm finding it diffi...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 02:36:00 GMT

Sedgefield Idyll

Well I've finally got around to posting something different - a track entitled 'Sedgefield Idyll'. This piece is essentially a cut-up of a section of my track The Cool Breeze and originally formed par...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:29:00 GMT

In Echo of Emptiness

Brief bit of blogginess about the new track 'In Echo of Emptiness' on my profile page. Mystified Music posted the original a cappella version of this track way back in February last year on MacJams...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:05:00 GMT

The first KK blog in the world ever...

Been quite musically active over the last week. Last Monday I was in the 'studio' of Nigel Hobbins (talented local singer/songwriter) to add some fiddle to a track for his forthcoming album (I'll be ...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:07:00 GMT