CHAMBER MUSIC volume II (+ live/radio recordings etc) .

by Martyn Bates

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1.	Be Not Sad XIX 04:29	lyrics	buy track
Martyn Bates : kybd/tapes/voice .
2.	In The Dark Pine-Wood 02:24	lyrics	buy track
Martyn Bates : tapes/voice .
3.	His Love 00:23	info	buy track
4.	He Who Hath Glory Lost 01:37	lyrics	buy track
Martyn Bates : tapes/kyd/harmonica/voice .
5.	His Companion 00:23	info	buy track
6.	Of That So Sweet Imprisonment 03:31	lyrics	buy track
Martyn Bates : tapes/hammered guitar/voice .
7.	This Heart 05:24	lyrics	buy track
Martyn Bates : kbd/harmonica/voice .
8.	Between Kiss And Kiss 01:05	info	buy track
9.	Silently She's Combing 03:19	lyrics	buy track
Martyn Bates : tapes/horizontal ac. guitar/voice .
10.	On The Drappled Grass 00:50	info	buy track
11.	Lightly Come Or Lightly Go 04:59	lyrics	buy track
Martyn Bates : tapes/whistle/horizontal (prepared) e-guitar/voice .
12.	Thou Leanest To The Shell Of Night 01:48	lyrics	buy track
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13.	At Ghosting Hour 00:54	info	buy track
14.	Though I Thy Mithridates Were 02:39	lyrics	buy track
Martyn Bates : e-guitar/voice .
15.	Gentle Lady, Do Not Sing 02:52	lyrics	buy track
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16.	Dear Heart 03:47	lyrics	buy track
Martyn Bates : tapes/kybds/voice .
17.	Love Came To Us 02:04	lyrics	buy track
Martyn Bates : horizontal prepared acoustic/voice .
18.	O, It Was Out By Donnycarney 02:49	lyrics	buy track
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19.	Bat 01:53	info	buy track
20.	Rain Has Fallen 01:31	lyrics	buy track
Martyn Bates : voices .
21.	Now O Now 05:58	lyrics	buy track
Martyn Bates : tapes/drums/voice/tambourine .
22.	The Wind Is Whistling 01:34	info	buy track
23.	Sleep Now 02:58	lyrics	buy track
Martyn Bates : autoharp/voice .
24.	Unquiet 01:21	info	buy track
25.	All Day I Hear The Noise Of Waters 04:55	lyrics	buy track
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26.	I Hear An Army 05:00	lyrics	buy track
Martyn Bates : tapes/organ/voices .
27.	Fluttering Whips 02:15	info	buy track
28.	Bahnhofstrasse 02:22	lyrics	buy track
* BAHNHOFSTRASSE taken from Joyce's 2nd poetry collection POMES PENNYEACH . * this track was originally issued in 1997 as part of TERRA SERPENTES, a WORLD SERPENT double CD of their roster - including myself, Coil, Current 93, Sol Invictus, Death In June, Nurse With Wound, Legendary Pink Dots etc etc .
29.	Twilight Turns From Amethyst (live, VPRO radio broadcast) 04:06	info	buy track
30.	The Resurrection Apprentice 02:31	info	buy track
31.	Lean Out Of The Window (live, VPRO radio broadcast) 04:36	info	buy track
32.	Be Not Sad (live 20th Jan 2009 - Kings Place, King's Cross : VOCAL CROSSINGS, Sub Rosa Evening Event . 01:34	info	buy track
33.	Seven Yellow Gypsies 07:11	lyrics	buy track
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34.	Know 02:07	lyrics	buy track
Martyn Bates : voices .
35.	Bright Cap & Streamers (Live at pH 31, Amsterdam 25th April 1996) 01:47	info	buy track
36.	Sir Hugh (Child*155) 05:08	info	buy track
37.	My Dove, My Beautiful One (Live at pH 31, Amsterdam 25th April 1996) 04:26	info	buy track
38.	I Would In That Sweet Bosom Be (Live at pH 31, Amsterdam 25th April 1996) 02:41	info	buy track
39.	My Love Is In A Light Attire (Live at pH 31, Amsterdam 25th April 1996) 01:52	info	buy track
40.	Long Lankin ( live on air, KALX radio studio San Francisco 13th June 1999) 07:25	info	buy track

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* second volume of Songs Settings Of James Joyce's CHAMBER MUSIC collection of poems . Cut live to DAT at Ambivalent Scale Studios March-April 1994 .

THIS TIME I've included a HUGE batch of extra tracks to accompany the release - showing how I presented the stuff live, along with "similar' stuff from that period ...

CHAMBER MUSIC VOLUME II : As with VOL 1, I say again that the whole experience of writing, arranging & recording these albums of (mostly) acappella pieces ... in hindsight appears to me now as being some kind of heightened experience: physically & mentally exhilarating - as I said, mostly live - done as a performance of sorts in the studio : tunes/ideas/instrumentation/feel/styles of approach/etc etc had of course all been pretty much meticulously worked out before hand, oh yes - with some of the instrumental "passage pieces" being injected to make for a more rounded listening experience overall. It was a joy, pure pleasure to sing & live inside Joyce's beauteous hymning : sumptuous, delicious sensuality!

Again - at the risk of repeating myself (!!) - what more can I say .

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released August 3, 2023

CHAMBER MUSIC (volume II) was first issued on the 5th January 1996 on Sub Rosa .

An Ambivalent Scale recording.

all instruments : Martyn Bates
Lyrics: James Joyce (tracks:1,2,4,6,7,9,11,12,14,15,16,17,18,20,21,23,25,26)
All Music Composed By Martyn Bates
MB Photography: Elizabeth S.
Producer – Martyn Bates/Peter Becker
Recorded & Engineered by Peter Becker .

Recorded and engineered at Ambivalent Scale, Nuneaton, March-April 1994.

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(For CD version write to Jerry at eyeless@eyelessingaza.com)
voice +acoustic w/songs/ e-guitars/kybd/ tape. Since 1980, Eyeless in Gaza, & since 2000, Twelve Thousand Days, Mick Harris etc. Knew stuff / Forgot stuff / cared too much / cared too little - perhaps. 2023:current band = Kodax Strophes … with Martyn reportedly "still longing for 'Christmas in my soul". kodaxstrophes.bandcamp.com ... more

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