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01. MARTYN BATES - Cut Like Sunset
02. MARTYN BATES - Shorepoem
03. MARTYN BATES - I Can't Look For You
04. MARTYN BATES - First And Last February
05. MARTYN BATES - The God On The Tree
06. MARTYN BATES - Morning Singing
07. MARTYN BATES - Of That So Sweet Imprisonment
08. MARTYN BATES - Mirrored In Me
09. MARTYN BATES - Twilight Turns From Amethyst
10. MARTYN BATES - Once Loved (by Twelve Thousand Days)
11. MARTYN BATES - Dissonance (Excerpt)
12. MARTYN BATES - Later War Cries
13. MARTYN BATES - Poems Penyeach (Alone)
14. MARTYN BATES - The Garden Of Olives (with Anne Clarke)
15. MARTYN BATES - No-One Spoke
16. MARTYN BATES - Overflowing Look
17. MARTYN BATES - Cherry Tree Carol (with Max Eastley)
18. MARTYN BATES - Once Blessed
19. MARTYN BATES - The Cruel Mother (with M.J. Harris)
20. MARTYN BATES - Leitmotif #1
ARTIST
TITLE
Your Jewled Footsteps
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
SR 257CD SR 257CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/24/2006

This is a long awaited Martyn Bates best-of collection, sampling a wide selection of his solo and collaborative work from 1979 to 2006. UK-based Martyn Bates founded the post-punk duo Eyeless in Gaza in 1980, along with Peter Becker. During his 20+ year career, after countless releases and against all odds, Bates managed to shape a unique, instantly recognizable form of music based on a deeply rooted, 100% English folk tradition. Often underrated as a songwriter, in his solo work and in EIG, he has developed what can be called an almost Elizabethan style: a combination of angst (a working-class hero) and pure melancholia (time irremediably lost, the loss of idealized love), mixed in with an unconditional love of poetry (Keats, Yeats, Joyce) and authentic popular song stylings. In addition, he possesses one of the most strangely compelling voices imaginable. Your Jewled Footsteps journeys through made-in-England pop, folk, poetry recitation and reconstructions of songs whose origins are long forgotten. In addition to Bates' essential pieces, the collection also includes several previously unreleased tracks, including some pre-industrial sound works predating EIG's formation, in the late '70s.