Aaron
Martin only recently became familiar to me because of this recent cassette
release I saw on his Bandcamp page, which is also available through Sonic
Meditations. After browsing his
Bandcamp page, I found a number of other releases up there and if they are half
as good as this then consider me about to review his full catalogue as well.
One
thing that I noticed was odd on his “merch” section rather than “music” side is
that this appears to be his first cassette release. Everything else up there for sale physically
is either record or CD. If this is indeed
the first Aaron Martin cassette, I’m going to perhaps be even more influenced
in purchasing it for the sake that I like to have all good music at least on
cassette (Not owning CDs or even records by great musicians doesn’t bother me
as much)
Aaron Martin
performs primarily the cello throughout these songs, though other instruments
do come into play and there is even the occasional singing so as not to create
a completely instrumental feel. For me
personally, it is hard to place people who play the cello because I don’t hear
it (or strings in general) as much as I’d like to, or at least not in this
tone.
The
songs are dark and sad, as they can resemble that of the band Murder by Death
without the western feel. There is some
harmonica throughout this as well, which is an interesting choice (At least
that’s what it sounds like to me) and then there is also a bit of synth organ
which somehow makes me think less of church (as per the title) and more of a
dial tone.
The
first seven songs were recorded live in a studio and the last eight through
twelve were recorded live on a stage. I
always find it funny when artists have to denote that their songs are being
played “live”, in the way that 8-12 say it in parentheses, as if 1-7 were
played from beyond the grave. In any
event, this is something worth looking into and I shall be checking out his
other works as well now.
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