Startling Monikers Top 12 Best Happy Neat-O List of 2008! |
Privately, I think of Eddie the Rats
Peter Martin as a more unruly modern-day version of Harry Partch. This
may not be totally accurate, but hey, its my head. Still, what with
the brash polyrhyt...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:26:00 GMT |
All About Jazz review of "Out Behind the 8-ball" |
Eddie the Rat is the group moniker for San Francisco-based multi-instrumentalist Peter Martin and his merry
quartet. With the band's seventh release, they continue to etch a niche sound that truly d...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:24:00 GMT |
Achterhalen interview |
Now defunct Dutch zine Achterhalen let me ramble on various self-indulgent topics for a while. I forget when this was exactly. Posted with their permission. An Interview With a Musical Rodent: Pet...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:05:00 GMT |
New music posted |
Two samples from our latest CD have been posted:
"March of the Haydevil (Don't Apologize for Universal Law)" is the first section of an18 minute piece which closes the disc.
"The Closet People" is as ...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:18:00 GMT |
Out Behind the 8-ball |
Eddie the Rat's seventh release, Out Behind the 8-ball, adds to an extensive list of intricate and richly composed concepts in the Eddie the Rat catalog. Out Behind the 8-ball features a quartet playi...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:10:00 GMT |
Insomnia Sound Bible review |
Peter Martin is basically Eddie the Rat, but for the first two years of the band's existence, he was joined live on stage by an ensemble of twelve equally eccentric musicians (recruited from bands lik...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:47:00 GMT |
Insomnia Sound Bible is o-o-o-O-OOOOOUT! |
Human Primate Incarnations-Happy New Year to you all - and what that means to you. Spiritually. Philosophically.Financially. Legally. Astrologically. (Other-ly).For Eddie the Rat, it is about taking s...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:53:00 GMT |
Aiding & Abetting review of "Insomnia Sound Bible |
I've been listening to Pete Martin's Eddie the Rat project for years. He's always been able to find people who can translate his written (if sometimes loosely) music into enthusiastic moderately-impro...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:51:00 GMT |
Foxy Digitalis review of "Insomnia Sound Bible" |
What began as a moniker for ambient composer Peter Martin, Eddie The Rat has now become a functioning band, with Martin at the helm. And I mean band; at times, the touring lineup featured no less than...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:49:00 GMT |
All About Jazz Review of Once Around The Butterfly Bush |
This San Francisco-based unit proves that rock music is free-game and is not exclusive to high-volume antics and memorably melodic hooks. With odd instrumentation and influences that seemingly span le...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:36:00 GMT |
