Martyn Bennett - Bothy Culture
DJ Colleen Murphy delves into Martyn Bennett's second album, Bothy Culture, and explores its relationship with the city of Edinburgh.
In this final run of Sounds of a City, Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy explores the city of Edinburgh. Having already delved into Sheffield through the eyes of Human League's Travelogue album, Liverpool and The Teardrop Explodes' Kilimanjaro, and Manchester with New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies, we're now heading further north to the capital city of Scotland; a city of science and engineering, home of one of the biggest events in the cultural calendar, and a city with an incredibly varied history stretching back thousands of years...Edinburgh. We're looking at an album that links the old with the new, the traditional with the electronic, and it's Martyn Bennett's Bothy Culture. Released in 1997, Martyn's second album takes Celtic folk, Gaelic, and traditional rhythms and poems, and blended them with the ambient electronica of the day, elements of the rave scene, and drum and bass. Bringing the traditional to an entirely new audience and generation, his can-do attitude meant he had no boundaries with which to compose and record. He unfortunately passed away in 2005 due to cancer, and never quite became the influential artist of scenes he deserved to be. In this documentary, we ask why Martyn is so essential to the fabric of the city, we take a look at why the Edinburgh music scene is so small and insular, and how his indirect influence led to the growth of bands such as Young Fathers, Boards of Canada, Treacherous Orchestra, and even Moby. We talk to the likes of Radio 3's Mary Ann Kennedy on his talents and legacy, members of Shooglenifty who worked with Martyn, friend and composer Greg Lawson, and font-of-knowledge and Celtic Connections artistic director Donald Shaw.
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Shooglenifty
A Whisky Kiss
- Greentrax Recordings 鈥�.
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Martyn Bennett
Aye?
- Rykodisc.
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Martyn Bennett
Yer Man From Athlone
- Rykodisc.
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Paul Mounsey
Remembrance
- Nascente 鈥�.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Jazz Suite No. II: 6. Waltz II
- Naxos 鈥�.
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Martin Hayes
Lucy Farr's
- Green Linnet 鈥�.
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贬耻耻苍鈥怘耻耻谤鈥怲耻
Saryglarlar
- World Village 鈥�.
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Thin Lizzy
Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Caught Me In Its Spotlight)
- Vertigo.
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Martyn Bennett
Hallaig
- Rykodisc.
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Aqua Bassino
Take Me There
- F Communications.
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Martyn Bennett / Cuillin Music
Shputnik In Glenshiel (Live from La Belle Ang猫le / Global Gathering)
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Martyn Bennett
Ud The Doudouk
- Rykodisc.
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Boards of Canada
Roygbiv
- Music Has The Right To Children.
- Warp.
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Fraser Fifield
Lament
- Tanar Records 鈥�.
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John Mulhearn
No More
- little cough records.
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Martyn Bennett
Blackbird
- Real World Records.
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Grit Orchestra
Chanter (Live at Celtic Connections 2015)
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Martyn Bennett
Waltz For Hector
- Rykodisc.
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Pipe Major Angus MacDonald
Lament For The Children
- Lismor Recordings.
Broadcast
- Sun 16 Aug 2015 13:00麻豆社 Radio 6 Music