Oklahoma natives Smarty Slacks never have been afraid showing their influences on the sleeve, as well as the wide range of music artists they mimic pieces their audio apart brilliantly. Frequently invoking the sensitive psychedelia of fellow Oklahomans the Flaming Lip area while alternately having on the smart nerd-emo of …

Argentinean death metallic/black metallic foursome Jesus Martyr started playing in the first ’90s beneath the name of Martyr, recording its initial album, Fear to become Blessed, in cassette format, and followed it with another album called Humanize. In 1996, Jesus Martyr began documenting Sudamerican Porno, made by Matías Kritz and …

Mention the name of Marty Flax, a jazz multi-instrumentalist, and different keepers of strange and obscure lists of music artists inevitably come forward to acknowledge his importance. To start out, he is mostly of the players whose surname rhymes using their device, at least when Flax was playing sax rather …

Yury Martynov is a Russian pianist who also has harpsichord, fortepiano, clavichord, and body organ with similar skill. A graduate from the Central College of Music as well as the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Martynov researched piano, body organ, and music theory, and his primary instructor was Mikhail Voskresensky. Martynov …

Beverly Martyn (b. Beverly Kutner) was an extremely respected United kingdom folksinger when she fulfilled and fell deeply in love with United kingdom vocalist/songwriter John Martyn. A longtime friend of Paul Simon, she got recommended the allusion to Donovan in the Simon and Garfunkel tune “Fakin’ It.” Throughout a middle-’90s …

Marty Holmes performed and recorded using the Homosexual Men’s Chorus of LA in the first ’90s and really should not end up being confused using the saxophonist and author of the same name from the Tito Puente music group.

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Conductor Martyn Brabbins was slow to determine a presence beyond Britain and Scotland, though he did help to make a significant tag through recordings not in regular repertory, but largely in music of modern Scottish composers and among the primary conductors involved with Hyperion’s extensive Intimate Piano Concerto series. A …

The oddly named Australian group the Tol-Puddle Martyrs (evolving from the mid-’60s band Peter & the Silhouettes, who had a track on the 1966 compilation LP) released several singles in 1967-1968 that are respectable by garage rock collectors, though few people heard them beyond Australia during their release. (In fact, …

One of the most interesting, if short-lived rock bands to look at the favorite name, Martyr, this quintet from Utretch, Holland, was formed by guitarist Rick Bouwman in 1982, and performed an extremely technical, pre-thrash design of melodic quickness metal, seeing that evidenced on the very first demonstration, entitled “WHETHER …