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Martin Birke interviewed in Tribe4mian : Tribe4mian
As some of you may know I've been a musician all my life, an electronic percussionist first and foremost, recording artist
behind the electro-rock project GENRE PEAK , a life-long neurotic intellectual and world history buff .
Genre Peak's 2nd album PRETERNATURAL , is out now, featuring MICK KARN, TARA C. TAYLOR, CHRISTOPHER SCOTT COOPER, STEPHEN SULLIVAN and GUSTAF FJELSTROM...nice cast I do say :)
I've also recorded many albums and toured with:
Birke/Leykam/Panasenko
Casualty Park
sandbox trio
Martin Birke's history as a musician, songwriter and vocalist is in a variety of US & European releases .In addition to founding Genre Peak, he also co-founded and wrote 3 albums (Telepathy, Smoke, and Executive Flesh) with pop duo Casualty Park and was a member and co-writer of 4 albums (Kurumba, Idiophone/Orcus Drawl, Nocturnalis and Urubamba) for the electro/acoustic-improv group Sandbox Trio with Daniel Panasenko and Chuck Ehlis. Along with various single releases and collaborations , he has done commissioned scores for The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, The Oxygen Cable Network, and LionsGate Films (Blood,Guts,Bullets and Octane and Retribution). He has co-scored 2 films in collaboration with sandbox trio: Animals and Heartbeat. He has been a recording artist with record labels in-code Music (USA) Frank Mark Arts (Germany) , Cyberdelia-Records (Greece), and has done single releases on Matchbox Recording, Priority Records, Arts Industria-Final Exit and Ladd-Frith.
Check out my current projects Genre Peak and MicroSphere
