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Grit

Martyn Bennett

A world-class fiddler and bagpiper, Martyn started to experiment with electronic music some years ago, and pioneered the rare marriage of the folk and modern dance cultures. With four exceptional albums behind him, Grit is Martyn's most extraordinary and challenging album so far.

Grit is an astonishing, deeply emotional collection of traditional singers - largely travellers - showcased via an avalanche of sounds and beats. It's simultaneously rooted in the passionate purity of the past while glorying in modern dance culture. It's a risky and dangerous balance, but far from being swamped by the swathes of electonica, it's the amazing voices of the traditional singers like Jeannie Robertson, her daughter Lizzie Higgins and the Gaelic singer Flora McNeil that ultimately dominate the attention.

The result is brilliant - an unmistakable original and the freshest voice you have heard from Scotland in many years.

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Grit at realworldrecords.com