Martyn may be the first truly total-electronic musician. Not only his synthesizer and clavinet -both of which he plays expertly- are weirdly amplified, but his voice as well.
Scotland doesn't seem to have spawned a flood of pop music artists known in the United States. But Glasgow, in particular, has been the birthplace of a few notable acts, and this week we will focus on two of them.
There is a fine use of the moog, but when the album is compared to his last attempt, Inside Out, Sunday's Child can be left in the record rack.
Folk-oriented British singer/ songwriter/ producer (and exceptional guitarist) demonstrates his adept ability to convey a variety of moods.
British singer comes up with odd blend of folk and rock which should appeal to the hard core of fans he has captured over the past few years.
An album made with love and care.
Engelse folk-singers, jongens met gitaren, behoren niet tot mijn favorieten.
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Inside Out (Island) is another of John Martyn's oddly beautiful excursions. He mumbles and the music is full of electronic whoops, but it all works. Musicians like Steve Winwood and Danny Thompson work on this album. The old standard The Glory Of Love never sounded so weird - or so good.
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Difficult to categorise this musician, except to say that he works in touches of blues, of folk, of the olde-worlde traditional sort of material.
John Martyn's most intrinsic and progressive album to date centres around that universal panacea, love, in its most simplistic form.
