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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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Sun 16 Aug 2015 13:00
大象传媒 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Shooglenifty

    A Whisky Kiss

    • Greentrax Recordings 鈥�.

  • Martyn Bennett

    Aye?

    • Rykodisc.

  • Martyn Bennett

    Yer Man From Athlone

    • Rykodisc.

  • Paul Mounsey

    Remembrance

    • Nascente 鈥�.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Jazz Suite No. II: 6. Waltz II

    • Naxos 鈥�.

  • Martin Hayes

    Lucy Farr's

    • Green Linnet 鈥�.

  • 贬耻耻苍鈥怘耻耻谤鈥怲耻

    Saryglarlar

    • World Village 鈥�.

  • Thin Lizzy

    Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Caught Me In Its Spotlight)

    • Vertigo.

  • Martyn Bennett

    Hallaig

    • Rykodisc.

  • Aqua Bassino

    Take Me There

    • F Communications.

  • Martyn Bennett / Cuillin Music

    Shputnik In Glenshiel (Live from La Belle Ang猫le / Global Gathering)

  • Martyn Bennett

    Ud The Doudouk

    • Rykodisc.

  • Boards of Canada

    Roygbiv

    • Music Has The Right To Children.
    • Warp.
    • 10.

  • Fraser Fifield

    Lament

    • Tanar Records 鈥�.

  • John Mulhearn

    No More

    • little cough records.

  • Martyn Bennett

    Blackbird

    • Real World Records.

  • Grit Orchestra

    Chanter (Live at Celtic Connections 2015)

  • Martyn Bennett

    Waltz For Hector

    • Rykodisc.

  • Pipe Major Angus MacDonald

    Lament For The Children

    • Lismor Recordings.

Broadcast

  • Sun 16 Aug 2015 13:00
    大象传媒 Radio 6 Music