Format: CD
Product ID: HR-CDRW114
Pub: (Dec 2003) RealWorld Records
- Move
- Blackbird
- Chanter
- Nae Regrets
- Liberation
- Why
- Ale House
- Wedding
- Rant
- Storyteller
| | Martyn is back in excellent form with an album based around travellers’ songs and songs of the Gaelteachd. Old sound clips and song sections are electronically booted into the 21st century with a surround of pipes, harmonium and strings.
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"Grit is Martyn Bennett's great leap forward in combining hard electronic beats and sampling technology, and clearly builds on the Glen Lyon project. His intent on this latest outing was to pay homage to the travelling people in Scotland (the Roma), and the traditions of the Hebrides, lifting off songs and spoken word tales from old tape recordings and vinyl records.One could argue that Grit bears a similarity to Moby's Play, which mixed blues recordings and electronica; but, Bennett's music never comes off as smug or as self-congratulatory as Moby's. After repeated listenings to Grit, it strikes me that he has created the field recordings of the future."
Lee Blackstone - RootsWorld
After two semi-classic albums with Bothy Culture and Hardland, this is perhaps the most powerful, defiant, deeply emotional album of the year. Made in the midst of a battle with cancer, Bennett digs deep into the Scottish tradition to sample travellers and Gaelic singers, catapulting them into the modern world with thrilling beats and full-on techno. The results are mostly outstanding.
Mojo UK
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