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jamesguilmartin

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About Me

Wise Up
click this link My Showcase..THE BREADCRUMB TRAIL.. bedroom session
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James Guilmartin – “A journey in life and music” James Guilmartin is a singer songwriter and percussionist who has played extensively on the Dublin music scene for the last 8 years.
Having played alongside the likes of Damien Rice, Kila, Paddy Casey, Jenny Lindfors and Robotnik and having been privileged to be asked to play on the albums of the latter two, in tandem James has been working on his own body of music which has now culminated in the birth of his seminal album “Spirit of Haum”.
Inspired by a passion and energy for music from an early age. James spent his teenage years writing songs and poems and living out these visions in his imagination. Underlying the music of James Guilmartin is the quest of looking for the simple beauty behind everything. While musical history is littered with individuals searching for self realisation and universal harmony James has pursued a simpler path, travelling to the heart of himself and his life experiences through the medium of the music to uncover that simple beauty. It is a dangerous but rewarding journey using rhythm and incantation to invoke the journey. It is this journey experience that so enthrals live audiences and strangers to his performance quickly find themselves captivated by this experience.
Emerging from this fertile plain of imagination and quest James hit the live music scene armed with an acoustic guitar and his unyielding passion. Gigging at every available opportunity James absorbed himself into the experiences he encountered honing his technical skills and deepening his understanding of music.
Now boldly stepping out from the crowded musical landscape of introspective singer songwriters and guitar driven rock bands James has delivered a debut album “Spirit of Haum” which captures in both the name and music James’ passion for honesty, truth, originality and beauty. Exploring new areas beyond standard formats and utilising distinctive instrumental passages and impressive vocal harmonies, James’ music heralds a bold and exciting departure from the “herd” appealing to an increasingly sophisticated audience that demands more from music. James Guilmartin now points to new future for real aficionados of music. Like fine wine for the true connoisseur, the music opens up its secrets and real quality the more you listen to it.



The Gathering // written by James Guilmartin and Martin Osborne.
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F.I.R.I.S.H. - Rob McGuinness & Will Flanagan. Music Video featuring music composed by James Guilmartin *. The Long Path, Brave New World*, All the Dogs Are Howling Their Own Tune. Enjoy the music and Fire Juggling down under! :)
' all the dogs are HOWLing their own tune EP 2005 Available at ROAD RECORDS and on line at www.cdbaby.com

My Interests

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Member Since: 7/24/2005
Band Website: this is it baby
Band Members: a space-shifting shifty space suit, a melody conjugator and a crypic word scrambler.
Influences: Real inspiration comes from those who have blown me away. they have been and still are leonard cohen, jeff buckley, tool, the clash, the beatles, kate bush, tori amos, nirvana, nick cave, led zeppelin, bob dylan, bjork, patti smith, salvador dali, henry miller, jack kerouac, allen ginsberg, the doors, faith no more, pink floyd, radiohead, tom waits, john martyn, krishnamurti, some of my local songwriting friends have also blown me away with what they can do. loads more but that'll do for now.
Sounds Like: "James Guilmartin is an intense performer who sings and plays guitar with mountains of passion and conviction. His solo offering "The Breadcrumb Trail"was a worthy forerunner to band versions of "Break The Spell"and "All The Dogs Are Howling Their Own Tune". The former is appropriately hypnotic and his soloing in both takes you to places most acts only dream of. "Wise Up"has echoes of sixties East Coast American rock and fluid eastern melodies, but without the pomposity."Jackie Hayden(Hotpress 2008)

"It was intriguing to hear an artist willing to explore new areas beyond the standard rock band format... I was particularly drawn to two aspects of it. The instrumental passages give it a kind of distinctiveness that sets it apart from the mainstream of contemporary rock, and the vocal harmonies are also highly impressive.A lot of what I hear on the CD suggests that James is a very interesting lyricist."Jackie Hayden(Hotpress 2008)

A FAMILIAR CHILL:
“High energy rock fused with middle eastern sounds with soaring vocal harmonies. Seductive guitar lines backed by various instruments. Up beat alternating time signatures. !”

“Trancy performances drawing the crowd in to a vortex of sonic ecstasy building up to ethereal incantations”


"James appears to have combined the sound of many generes of music, yet still has come out the otherside sounding like himself. There is a subtle energy to it.".

ROAD RECORDS : EP : JAMES GUILMARTIN: ALL THE DOGS ARE HOWLING THEIR OWN TUNE ( 2006) "3 track ep from this irish based singer songwriter, released on his own label, features all the dogs are howling their own tune, wake up and the long path, a collection of uptempo acoustically based folky tunes, track 3 the long path beautifully uses droning electronic sounds to radically change the sound of the ep and is kinda reminiscent of the likes of james yorkston." ROAD RECORDS

BUY ONLINE AT:
Road Records and cdbaby.com

Record Label: indie
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

HotPress Live Review

The following review appears in isssue 11 vol 32 of HotPress Magazine 5th june 2008REVIEW OF LIVE PERFORMANCE : "James Guilmartin is an intense performer who sings and plays guitar with mountains of p...
Posted by jamesguilmartin on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:25:00 PST

www.Downloadmusic.ie charts

Hey folksMy song "Wise Up" has reached No.7 on the download music irish charts in the first week and climbing. If you text   music 1069  to 57501   and follow the simple instructions and you can place...
Posted by jamesguilmartin on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:35:00 PST

HUMAN RIGHTS RELAY

hi if you get a chance to help out here please do by signing the petition and supporting the people of China. Everybody deserves their human rights.please visit www.humanrightstorch.orgthanksjames...
Posted by jamesguilmartin on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:08:00 PST

Sonic Bondage for lost souls

pretentious title i know!! ah fuck it.. what i wanna say is Hi there. Im currently putting the finishing touches to my debut album "Philosophy & Wine" with the help of the many good spirits that g...
Posted by jamesguilmartin on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:56:00 PST

HOWL Ginsberg

This is absolutely fuckin brilliant. i love this guy... I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn ...
Posted by jamesguilmartin on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 04:43:00 PST

THE ALBUM

WELL WELL WELL!!THE ALBUM IS NEARLY AT THE FINAL STAGES OF COMPLETION. FINALLY. IVE BEEN WORKING ON IT NOW FOR 2 YEARS. 2 YEARS OF THE MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS OF MY LIFE. I UNDERWENT SOME MAJOR CHANGES...
Posted by jamesguilmartin on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 03:16:00 PST

1000 MEASURES OF LIGHT

*'1000 Measures of Light' By James Guilmartin * Leave your feet at the door, Leave your heart unquiet, Leave a rose on the floor, Perfumed scent where I'll find it. The battle rages over there, Red lo...
Posted by jamesguilmartin on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:18:00 PST

inspiration from a fuckin comedian!!!! Who would have thunk it!?

Bill Hicks has become my hero.... God damn he is some visionary.....
Posted by jamesguilmartin on Mon, 12 Sep 2005 01:03:00 PST