Member Since: 22/01/2007
Band Website: www.matmartin.co.uk
Band Members: mat martin :
composer, visual artist and performer on fretted strings :
5-string banjo, guitar, tenor guitar, high-string guitar, mandolin, banjo ukulele, voice, noises
Influences: noises, nature, patterns, forms, growth, texture, animal and plant taxonomies, birdsong, humming fish, knocking walrus, singing whales...
harry partch, tom waits, george crumb, morton feldman, chris cundy, rhodri davies, plainsong, william byrd, j.s. bach, henry purcell, the notre dame school, francis poulenc, erik satie, gillian welch, mississipi john hurt, iron and wine, beck, bjork, boo hewerdine, curtis eller's american circus, georges brassens, john cage, kirsty mcgee, myshkin's ruby warblers, olivier messiaen, pete seeger, neill maccoll, radiohead, edward cowie, alexander goehr, les claypool, larry lalonde, marc ribot, david rawlings, neil hannon, seasick steve...
captain haddock, for style and vocabulary ; krazy kat, for general genius and inspired banjo playing ; hobbes (the tiger) for panache...
paul klee, cave art, kandinsky, leonardo da vinci, barnett newman, greasy pencils, textured papers, heterophonic structures, pebbles and string...
Sounds Like: something shuffling in the walls
Record Label: flatpack music