Martyn Bates

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The Resurrection Apprentice 02:31 Tools
Morning Singing 02:43 Tools
The Look of Love 03:52 Tools
Cut Like Sunset 02:36 Tools
Bahnhofstrasse 02:27 Tools
Mirrored In Me 03:59 Tools
Overflowing Look 03:10 Tools
Bright Cap And Streamers X 01:44 Tools
I Can't Look For You / The Palaces Of Gesar's Family - DJ Spooky Remix 02:10 Tools
Shorepoem 04:17 Tools
In June 02:56 Tools
Jagged Tears Of Words 03:15 Tools
Aftertaste Of Old 03:39 Tools
Seven Yellow Gypsies 07:11 Tools
Letters From Yesterday 03:37 Tools
Hungry Like Sharp Desire 01:53 Tools
Calls Of Birds 03:21 Tools
you looking to me for a sign 05:02 Tools
Once Loved / A Footnote To Howl 05:02 Tools
Rich Apparel 00:31 Tools
Martyn Bates/Trinlem: "I Can't Look For You/The Palaces Of Gesar's Family (DJ Spooky Remix)" 00:31 Tools
Sad Austerities 00:59 Tools
Strings In The Earth And Air I 05:26 Tools
Once Blessed 05:57 Tools
Dark Leaves 01:21 Tools
imagination feels like poison 05:14 Tools
Once Again 02:47 Tools
Calm of Dark 05:26 Tools
Thrushes Calling 00:42 Tools
Trade Winds 02:30 Tools
Yellow Keys 01:02 Tools
Sir Hugh (Child #155) 05:08 Tools
empty pages 04:26 Tools
The God On The Tree 02:15 Tools
Nightdew 01:15 Tools
over the waters 04:51 Tools
First And Last February 03:00 Tools
Love Fell Silent 05:36 Tools
sky after all 04:50 Tools
On the Beach at Fontana 02:12 Tools
Midday Coming Misty 02:51 Tools
The Flowery Bells of Morn 00:38 Tools
Everywhere There's Rain 04:49 Tools
gift 01:00 Tools
Poems Pennyeach 00:38 Tools
Twilight Turns From Amethyst 03:09 Tools
Silvery Arches 00:54 Tools
She Will Know 04:27 Tools
On The Day You Climb Down 03:18 Tools
of night 05:48 Tools
no one spoke 02:53 Tools
If I Could See In Everyone 03:08 Tools
Flight 03:08 Tools
Wishing-Songs 05:48 Tools
Fragment (Little Star #1) 01:35 Tools
Know 02:07 Tools
I Can't Look for You 02:10 Tools
I Would in That Sweet Bosom Be VI 05:09 Tools
At the Return of the Quiet 04:09 Tools
Stranger 01:32 Tools
Last Chapel Picnic 05:00 Tools
Glow Of Sight 07:57 Tools
Snow Rages 06:35 Tools
July Late Afternoon 05:55 Tools
Stars Above 03:58 Tools
Of That So Sweet Imprisonment 03:30 Tools
Twilight Turns From Amethyst I 04:09 Tools
I'd Better Mean It All Now 03:51 Tools
The Mountain Tomb 04:53 Tools
Bethlehem 03:53 Tools
War-Like 05:09 Tools
Lean Out of the Window, Goldenhair 05:07 Tools
For Love, Waiting to Die 03:29 Tools
Alone Reprise 00:37 Tools
I Cant Look For You 05:05 Tools
Later War Cries 02:59 Tools
You So Secret 04:23 Tools
Since I Can't Have You 04:07 Tools
Fired High 03:38 Tools
Little Days 03:02 Tools
Etc Angel 03:52 Tools
City, All of Strangers 03:38 Tools
The Garden Of Olives 01:51 Tools
At That Hour When All Things Have Repose III 04:11 Tools
When The Sky Star Goes Forth I 02:59 Tools
The Heart's Song 03:21 Tools
End Of Sleep 03:47 Tools
Once Loved 06:04 Tools
Azure Flag 03:46 Tools
The Lovely Moon 03:24 Tools
O Cool Is The Valley Now XVl 02:26 Tools
This One Refrain 03:58 Tools
Cherry Tree Carol 05:18 Tools
Arriving Fire 06:04 Tools
Winds of May, That Dance on the Sea IX 03:49 Tools
Love smashed on a rock 04:11 Tools
I'll Wrap Your Hopes 04:07 Tools
We Won't Begin To Belong 03:40 Tools
The Rhyme Of Miracles 05:24 Tools
My Dove, My Beautiful One XIV 03:38 Tools
Mock Sun #1 05:18 Tools
This Wayward Love 05:24 Tools
Sad Song Of Almost 03:31 Tools
The Words Of The Haunted 03:00 Tools
Shuttered Nights 02:44 Tools
The Cruel Mother 11:18 Tools
Because Your Voice Was At My S 05:24 Tools
Mystery Seas 03:07 Tools
Bones of Your Face 01:37 Tools
The Gift Of Lieing 03:24 Tools
Later War Crys 02:57 Tools
What Counsel Has the Hooded Moon XII 03:40 Tools
Bid Adieu XI 03:40 Tools
Lightening Following 04:30 Tools
Years of Salt 04:33 Tools
Past Tense / Eclipse 02:25 Tools
Born Tomorrow 02:10 Tools
Wintersky 02:52 Tools
Flanaghan 01:30 Tools
Flashes Of Sun 02:51 Tools
Once Loved / Allen Ginsberg - A Footnote to Howl (DJ Spooky remix) 03:10 Tools
Fully Bright 04:55 Tools
The Dim and the Yellow Light 02:25 Tools
Pity Winter 02:51 Tools
Skirting The Shores Of Sunrise 04:55 Tools
Full Sail 03:18 Tools
I Forget You 03:37 Tools
Bid Adieu Xl 04:55 Tools
Because Your Voice Was at My Side XVII 02:51 Tools
Faith Stars 00:54 Tools
Fantacinni Playground 04:14 Tools
Ellen Massey 03:03 Tools
Silvery Images 01:07 Tools
Who Goes Amid the Green Wood 02:33 Tools
I Can't Look For You Mixed w/ The Palaces Of Gesar's Family (DJ Spooky Remix) 02:10 Tools
Midnight Labours 01:07 Tools
And I Don't Know How It Will Be 04:46 Tools
Letters to a Scattered Family 05:02 Tools
Fragment / Glad 02:52 Tools
More 04:56 Tools
When the Sky Star Goes Forth in Heaven 03:08 Tools
Nascent fragrance of skin 03:25 Tools
From Dewey Dreams, My Soul Arise 04:56 Tools
Between Kiss and Kiss 01:05 Tools
The Bright Moon 02:10 Tools
Liar's Roses 01:05 Tools
if i could see everyone 03:07 Tools
At Ghosting Hour 00:54 Tools
Close Of A Song 03:08 Tools
Two Voices 03:08 Tools
I Can't Look For You / The Palaces of Gesar's Family (Dj Spooky remix) 02:09 Tools
Sir Hugh (Child # 155) 02:26 Tools
Sad Songs Of Almost 03:30 Tools
Leitmotif #1 02:21 Tools
O Cool is the Valley Now 02:26 Tools
My Love is in Light Attire 01:59 Tools
Dark's Chorus 04:47 Tools
Go Seek Her Out Courteouly Xll 02:21 Tools
From Dewey Dreams, My Soul, Ar 02:21 Tools
Call & Response 02:15 Tools
Down Amongst The Lonely 03:55 Tools
This Is What I Say To Love 04:52 Tools
Sleep Now 02:58 Tools
Bat 01:53 Tools
The Wind is Whistling 01:33 Tools
She's On A Pedestal 03:22 Tools
In the Dark Pine-Wood 02:24 Tools
Be Not Sad 04:28 Tools
Long After 02:15 Tools
Go Seek Her Out Courteously 03:39 Tools
Port of Summer Lights 03:39 Tools
My Love Is In A Light Attire V 03:55 Tools
O Sweetheart, Hear You XVlll 03:55 Tools
Her And Some Heaven 03:50 Tools
Lean Out Of The Window, Golden 03:39 Tools
My Dove, My Beautiful One XlV 03:39 Tools
He Who Hath Glory Lost 01:37 Tools
Embers, Starry Tapers 04:54 Tools
Beaten Gold 03:10 Tools
Ways Of Going 05:02 Tools
O Sweetheart, Hear You 01:42 Tools
You're The Spell (I Can't Break) 03:51 Tools
Who Goes Amid The Green Wood V 05:02 Tools
Away 04:58 Tools
Unquiet 01:21 Tools
Poems Penyeach (Alone) 03:51 Tools
If At All 04:58 Tools
3 Weeks And After 04:24 Tools
Dissonance Excert 01:40 Tools
Fluttering Whips 02:15 Tools
Dissonance (Excerpt) 01:21 Tools
At That Hour When All Things H 01:21 Tools
At Last 04:00 Tools
Gathering 04:58 Tools
Your Jewelled Footsteps 04:28 Tools
Thou Leanest to the Shell of Night 01:48 Tools
Over Flowing Look 03:15 Tools
What Counsel Has The Hooded Mo 02:15 Tools
This Heart 05:23 Tools
Rain Has Fallen 01:31 Tools
Remembering 00:50 Tools
Unsung 00:50 Tools
Her & Some Heaven 03:49 Tools
That Is What I Say To Love 04:51 Tools
I Can't Look for You / Trinlem - The Palaces of Gesar's Family (DJ Spooky's remix) 02:10 Tools
Now O Now 05:57 Tools
Lightly Come or Lightly Go 04:58 Tools
All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters 04:54 Tools
Belong 00:50 Tools
Your Jewled Footsteps 04:29 Tools
I Can't Look for You/The Palaces of Gesar's Family (DJ Spooky Remix) 02:10 Tools
Shimmering 03:21 Tools
Fireworks & Jewels 03:46 Tools
First & Last February 03:01 Tools
World's Eve 01:40 Tools
On the Drappled Grass 00:50 Tools
Twilight Turns From Amethyst II 03:15 Tools
Dear Heart 03:46 Tools
Again Awhile 03:36 Tools
Flashes of the Sun 02:51 Tools
Winds Of May, That Dance On Th 00:50 Tools
I Hear an Army 04:59 Tools
Softspokenlies 03:36 Tools
Fight 05:12 Tools
Darks Chorus 04:45 Tools
Leitmotif#1 02:20 Tools
O, It Was Out by Donnycarney 02:48 Tools
I Am Bound 05:12 Tools
Spring Dresses Winter 03:36 Tools
Unowned Light 03:36 Tools
Hallucination 03:36 Tools
Riches, Crying Moon 03:30 Tools
All the Lowlands 03:30 Tools
You're The Spell I Can't Break 03:56 Tools
When the Sky Star Goes Forth in Heaven IV 02:51 Tools
Gentle Lady, Do Not Sing 02:52 Tools
I Said to Love 03:30 Tools
Where was the World 04:19 Tools
My Love Is in a Light Attire VII 03:56 Tools
Who Goes Amid the Green Wood VIII 04:46 Tools
Love Came to Us 02:04 Tools
Red Berries 04:46 Tools
Shorepoem (from Mystery Seas / Shayo 006) 04:46 Tools
Caustic 04:00 Tools
Ruined Flowers 01:42 Tools
I Look Back 01:42 Tools
Years 05:20 Tools
Fell Hill 02:56 Tools
Martyn Bates/Allen Ginsberg: " 02:56 Tools
Adam & Eve & Pinch Me 01:37 Tools
May 3rd 01:37 Tools
She Waltzes By the Window 04:46 Tools
Reedsong 04:37 Tools
Muted Music 05:01 Tools
Wait And See 03:35 Tools
Port Of Stormy Lights 04:46 Tools
Love Came To My Door 03:21 Tools
Shielded / Yielding 03:30 Tools
From Dewey Dreams, My Soul, Arise XV 03:23 Tools
World's Eye 05:01 Tools
She's on a pedestral 03:23 Tools
Though I Thy Mithridates Were 02:52 Tools
O Sweetheart, Hear You XVIII 01:43 Tools
No One 04:10 Tools
And This The Day 05:12 Tools
He who hath glory lost XXI 01:37 Tools
Start Where You Are 02:52 Tools
Now o now XXXIII 01:37 Tools
She Waltzes By This Window 04:45 Tools
All The Days 'Round 03:30 Tools
To Read Your Way 03:36 Tools
Shielded/Yielding 00:50 Tools
Go Seek Her Out Courteously XIII 01:37 Tools
Silently She's Combing 03:19 Tools
The Twa Sisters/Minorie (Child #10) Pt.1 01:37 Tools
O Cool Is the Valley Now XVI 03:30 Tools
Be not sad XIX 01:05 Tools
The Twa Sisters/Minorie (Child 03:30 Tools
In the dark pine-wood XX 03:30 Tools
Love came to us XXX 02:04 Tools
Gentle lady, do not sing XXVIII 01:31 Tools
O, it was out by Donnycarney XXXI 03:30 Tools
Silently she's combing XXIV 03:19 Tools
I Can't Look For You - The Palaces of Gesar's Family (Dj Spo 03:30 Tools
Between Loss and Kiss 01:05 Tools
This heart XXIII 01:05 Tools
Though I thy Mithridates were XXVII 02:39 Tools
Of that so sweet imprisonment XXII 03:31 Tools
Sleep now XXXIV 02:58 Tools
Dear heart XXIX 03:31 Tools
Lightly come or lightly go XXV 03:31 Tools
Rain has fallen XXXII 01:31 Tools
On the Dappled Grass 00:50 Tools
There/Here 03:19 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 18) 01:42 Tools
A Needle To North 03:41 Tools
Fortune 02:03 Tools
All day I hear the noise of waters XXXV 04:55 Tools
to a child dancing in the wind 04:18 Tools
Martyn Bates/Allen Ginsberg: "Once Loved/A Footnote To Howl (DJ Spooky Remix)" 04:55 Tools
The Twa Sisters/Minorie (Child #10) Pt.2 04:18 Tools
Pomes Penyeach (Alone) 00:38 Tools
The Twa Sisters-Minorie (Child 10) Pt.2 02:50 Tools
Of That So Sweet Inprisonment 03:31 Tools
Unsung:The Sun Knows 04:02 Tools
Long Lankin 03:39 Tools
Nascent Fragrence of Skin 03:25 Tools
Thou learnest to the shell of night XXVI 01:48 Tools
Fragments (Little Star #1) 01:35 Tools
The Twa Sisters / Minorie (Child#10) Pt.1 05:28 Tools
The Twa Sisters/Minorie (Child #10) Pt.3 05:28 Tools
Dissonance Excerpt 01:40 Tools
The Dim and the Yellow Light... 03:11 Tools
Twilight Turns from Amethyst... 01:40 Tools
The Twa Sisters-Minorie (Child 10) Pt.3 01:40 Tools
Mad As The Mist And Snow #2 00:38 Tools
11 - sky after all 04:53 Tools
Untitled 04:53 Tools
Unwrap Your Hopes 03:35 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 3) 00:58 Tools
I hear an army XXXVI 05:00 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 2) 00:37 Tools
the magi 04:55 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 15) 03:03 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 5) 01:32 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 4) 00:35 Tools
09 - midday coming misty 02:53 Tools
Your Jeweled Footsteps 04:29 Tools
Sir Hugh Child 155 01:40 Tools
Antagonistic Music 12 02:50 Tools
the twa sistersminorie (child #10) pt 1 01:40 Tools
Though I Thy Mithridates Were 02:39 Tools
Silently She's Coming 03:19 Tools
There / Here 03:19 Tools
The Arrow 03:19 Tools
Shattered Nights 02:44 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 14) 01:59 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 7) 03:29 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 1) 03:29 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 10) 02:44 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 13) 02:44 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 9) 02:44 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 8) 02:44 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 11) 02:44 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 12) 02:44 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 6) 00:31 Tools
Last Chapel Picinic 04:57 Tools
Dissonance Remake (Part 2.7) 00:56 Tools
02-cut like sunset 02:34 Tools
Everywhere There’s Rain 00:35 Tools
Ship In Distance With Cerise Backdrop 02:39 Tools
12 - fragment (little star 1) 01:37 Tools
Antagonistic Music 8 01:45 Tools
Migraine Inducers 2 02:39 Tools
14 - of night 05:48 Tools
15 - gift 01:00 Tools
Migraine Inducers 1 05:09 Tools
the twa sistersminorie (child #10) pt 2 02:50 Tools
Wind Is Whistling 01:34 Tools
Born and Beginning 05:09 Tools
Dove 05:09 Tools
the wayward love 05:33 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 17) 01:59 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 19) 02:03 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 20) 02:03 Tools
Yor've Got To Farewell 04:21 Tools
Child Squashing Frog 08:12 Tools
i made my song 02:44 Tools
Dissonance Remake (Part 2.8) 00:31 Tools
Dissonance Remake (Part 2.4) 00:31 Tools
Dissonance Remake (Part 2.10) 02:44 Tools
Jagged Tears Of Wards 05:09 Tools
Dissonance Remake (Part 1) 02:44 Tools
Figure Amongst Ruins 04:49 Tools
Dissonance Remake (Part 2.5) 00:37 Tools
Planes In Collision, Falling 02:56 Tools
Dissonance Remake (Part 2.1) 01:45 Tools
Dissonance Americas Version (Part 16) 02:44 Tools
Dissonance Remake (Part 2.3) 03:23 Tools
Dissonance Remake (Part 2.2) 03:23 Tools
Mona Lisa's Sister And Subsequent Burning 03:39 Tools
Antagonistic Music 5 01:32 Tools
Dissonance Remake (Part 2.6) 01:32 Tools
Antagonistic Music 3 00:58 Tools
Antagonistic Music 2 00:37 Tools
Migraine Inducers 6 04:49 Tools
Antagonistic Music 11 00:40 Tools
Migraine Inducers 13 02:22 Tools
When You Praise Her 02:22 Tools
Came Here To Look You In The Eye 02:22 Tools
Elegy News 02:22 Tools
The Light Among The Trees 02:22 Tools
The twa sisters/Minorie (Child #10) pt. 2 05:09 Tools
Sally Free And Easy 05:09 Tools
Of Night Calling 05:09 Tools
I Can't Look For You / The Palaces of Gesar's Family 05:09 Tools
This Time 05:09 Tools
Lean Out Of The Window 05:09 Tools
Engine Failing-Resultant Crash 03:25 Tools
01 3 weeks and after 03:25 Tools
Church With New Shoes Squeaking 05:59 Tools
04 ways of going 05:59 Tools
Antagonistic Music 9 01:40 Tools
Dead Seahorse With Sky Melting 01:40 Tools
Antagonistic Music 4 00:35 Tools
Migraine Inducers 3 00:35 Tools
Migraine Inducers 5 00:35 Tools
Go Seek Her Out Courteouly XIII 00:35 Tools
Antagonistic Music 16 03:11 Tools
Migraine Inducers 4 03:11 Tools
Antagonistic Music 13 03:11 Tools
The Twa Sisters-Minorie (Child 10) Pt.1 03:11 Tools
Antagonistic Music 20 03:11 Tools
the twa sistersminorie (child #10) pt 3 02:22 Tools
mad reprise 02:22 Tools
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The singer and musician Martyn Bates has since the early 1980s been important to the development of new folk related music. Originally (and still) a member with Peter Becker of the adventurous independent band, ‘Eyeless In Gaza’ he has also had a long concurrent solo career. In his solo work he started to work in experimental folk music during the late 1980s when synthetic and pomp-rock music were the prevailing forms of the time. Folk music was generally ignored at best and often despised, it was therefore an early and bold move to promote the old traditional songs and stories adapted in new avant-garde settings. During the 1990s he started also to work with Alan Trench, the leader of a mysterious band called ‘Orchis’ as a new band called ‘12000 Days’. Since this time Martyn has used these three routes, Eyeless In Gaza, solo and 12000 Days as his creative outlets. Other important collaborations include `Murder Ballads', with Mick Harris, `Just After Sunset', a musical setting of Rilke with Anne Clark, and `Like a Child Dancing in the Wind', a musical setting of some Yeats poems with German drone artists Troum. 2006 has been an active year with the release of a new Eyeless in Gaza album, two retrospectives, `Your Jewled Footsteps', and `Plague of Years' (Eyeless in Gaza), and a new 12000 days album. http://www.theunbrokencircle.co.uk/Martyn_Bates/profile_MBates.htm http://www.eyelessingaza.com Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.