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Martyn Bates (1960 - )

Male Person - United Kingdom British singer/musician

 Also known as (1)

Releases (16)

Official

Album

  1. Letters Written Oct 1982
  2. The Return of the Quiet 1987
  3. Letters to a Scattered Family Feb 1990
  4. Love Smashed On A Rock 1990
  5. Stars Come Trembling 1990
  6. Letters Written / The Return of the Quiet 1996
  7. Dance of Hours 2001
  8. Migraine Inducers / Antagonistic Music (Complete Versions) 2007
  9. Arriving Fire 24 Mar 2014

Album - Compilation

  1. Your Jewled Footsteps (solo and collaboration works 1979-2006) 10 Sep 2006

Single

  1. The Look of Love Sep 1987

EP

  1. Leitmotif 22 Jun 2005

Relationships (4)

Member Of

  1. Eyeless in Gaza (1980)
  2. Creature Box
  3. Twelve Thousand Days
  4. Sorry for Laughing

Recordings by (199)

  1. Nascent Fragrance of Skin ?:?? (1981)
  2. Morning Singing 2:46 (Oct 1982)
  3. Cut Like Sunset 2:38 (Oct 1982)
  4. In June 2:56 (Oct 1982)
  5. Mirrored in Me 4:03 (Oct 1982)
  6. Overflowing Look 3:12 (Oct 1982)
  7. Aftertaste of Old 3:39 (Oct 1982)
  8. Jagged Tears of Words 3:15 (Oct 1982)
  9. Letters From Yesterday 3:37 (Oct 1982)
  10. Calls of Birds 3:21 (Oct 1982)
  11. Hungry Like Sharp Desire 1:53 (Oct 1982)
  12. The Look of Love ?:?? (Sep 1987)
  13. Adam & Eve & Pinch Me ?:?? (Sep 1987)
  14. May 3rd ?:?? (1987)
  15. Love Fell Silent 5:33 (1987)
  16. Last Chapel Picnic 4:59 (1987)
  17. At the Return of the Quiet 4:08 (1987)
  18. She Will Know 4:27 (1987)
  19. Yor've Got to Farewell 4:21 (1987)
  20. July Late Afternoon 5:55 (1987)
  21. Sad Song of Almost 3:30 (1987)
  22. Etc Angel 3:52 (1987)
  23. On the Day You Climb Down ?:?? (Feb 1990)
  24. Snow Rages ?:?? (Feb 1990)
  25. City, All Of Strangers ?:?? (Feb 1990)
  26. Little Days ?:?? (Feb 1990)
  27. Your Jewelled Footsteps ?:?? (Feb 1990)
  28. Shuttered Nights ?:?? (Feb 1990)
  29. First and Last February ?:?? (Feb 1990)
  30. This One Refrain ?:?? (Feb 1990)
  31. I'll Wrap Your Hopes ?:?? (Feb 1990)
  32. For Love, Waiting To Die ?:?? (Feb 1990)
  33. I'd Better Mean It All Now 3:51 (1990)
  34. Since I Can't Have You 4:06 (1990)
  35. You So Secret 4:21 (1990)
  36. This Is What I Say to Love 4:52 (1990)
  37. Dark Chorus 4:45 (1990)
  38. Love Smashed on a Rock 4:11 (1990)
  39. We Won't Begin to Belong 3:38 (1990)
  40. Azure Flag 3:44 (1990)
  41. She's on a Pedestal 3:21 (1990)
  42. You're the Spell (I Can't Break) 3:55 (1990)
  43. I Don't Know How It Will Be 4:44 (1990)
  44. Down Amongst the Lonely 3:56 (1990)
  45. Once Again 2:47 (1990)
  46. Fired High 3:39 (1990)
  47. Her and Some Heaven 3:50 (1990)
  48. The Words of the Haunted 3:01 (1990)
  49. Flashes of Sun 2:51 (1990)
  50. The Gift of Lieing 3:24 (1990)
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On Recordings (29)

Arranged

  1. Longing Stilled 3:18 Anne Clark (1993)

Instruments

  1. Silent Forces 2:00 Anne Clark & Martyn Bates (1998) piano
  2. From the Book of Monastic Life #1 2:09 Anne Clark & Martyn Bates (1998) piano
  3. Sehnsucht 2:07 Anne Clark & Martyn Bates (1998) piano

Vocals

  1. Lazy English Sun 3:54 Louis Philippe with Dean Brodrick (1992) guest
  2. Seven Stormy Oceans (An Edward Lear Dream) 9:18 Sorry for Laughing (05 May 2021)
  3. Agone 3:51 Sorry for Laughing (05 May 2021)
  4. Enter the Gates 4:08 Sorry for Laughing (05 May 2021)
  5. A Howl in the Park 3:57 Sorry for Laughing (05 May 2021)
  6. Fate Stars 3:55 Sorry for Laughing (05 May 2021)
  7. Struck Blind 4:04 Sorry for Laughing (05 May 2021)
  8. Anti - Hymn 4:13 Sorry for Laughing (05 May 2021)
  9. The Necessity of Good Timing 4:04 Sorry for Laughing (05 May 2021)
  10. Conjoined 0:36 Sorry for Laughing (05 May 2021)
  11. Fountain of Snow 5:45 Sorry for Laughing (05 May 2021)
  12. Obsolesce 2:20 Sorry for Laughing (05 May 2021)
  13. Seen by Candlelight 2:41 Sorry for Laughing (05 May 2021)
  14. Mansions of Rest 3:30 Sorry for Laughing (31 May 2022)
  15. Last Day Awake 3:25 Sorry for Laughing (31 May 2022)
  16. Place 3:53 Sorry for Laughing (31 May 2022)
  17. Milk Wood (Polly's Song) 5:05 Sorry for Laughing (31 May 2022)
  18. Twist Ending / Shelf Isolation 7:37 Sorry for Laughing (31 May 2022)
  19. Soul Wanderer 4:00 Sorry for Laughing (31 May 2022)
  20. Mad Shadows (You Are an Actor) 13:16 Sorry for Laughing (31 May 2022)
  21. Friends Forever 4:28 Sorry for Laughing (31 May 2022)
  22. Ravens Flying 7:52 Sorry for Laughing (31 May 2022)
  23. Nothing for Everyone 2:48 Sorry for Laughing (31 May 2022)
  24. Dredging the Seas 2:06 Sorry for Laughing (31 May 2022)
  25. Mad Shadows (You Are an Actor/Last Day) 16:38 Sorry for Laughing (10 Jun 2022)

Credited as (11)

  1. Martyn Bates
  2. Anne Clark & Martyn Bates
  3. M.J. Harris & Martyn Bates
  4. Martyn Bates | Troum
  5. Martyn Bates & Peter Becker
  6. Martyn Bates / Peter Becker
  7. Martyn Bates / Allen Ginsberg
  8. Martyn Bates / Trinlem of Tongsa
  9. Martyn Bates / In Gowan Ring
  10. Martyn Bates & Allen Ginsberg
  11. Mick Harris / Martyn Bates

Works (2)

Wrote

  1. New Risen

Composed

  1. No Noise

Links (6)

Official Homepages

  1. http://www.eyelessingaza.com/mb.html

Other Databases

  1. https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/martyn_bates

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/49833

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000318212

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28741232

Secondhandsongs

  1. https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/36720