Post by ceg on May 8, 2013 23:38:47 GMT
In case people haven't seen, the British composer Steve Martland has died suddenly of a heart attack a couple of days ago.
I guess he was something of an iconoclast and a maverick - Steve Martland
As Tom Service, in the Guardian (Guardian Quote) writes:
"Like the man himself, Martland's music is joyfully, wilfully energetic, it's riotously noisy, and brazenly, brilliantly brash; it's occasionally complex, but more often than not it's gleefully approachable, and it's never anything but engagingly, viscerally compelling."
I don't know much of his music personally, but the bit I do know I like a lot, for example, this "re-mix" of the music of Marin Marais:
I guess he was something of an iconoclast and a maverick - Steve Martland
As Tom Service, in the Guardian (Guardian Quote) writes:
"Like the man himself, Martland's music is joyfully, wilfully energetic, it's riotously noisy, and brazenly, brilliantly brash; it's occasionally complex, but more often than not it's gleefully approachable, and it's never anything but engagingly, viscerally compelling."
I don't know much of his music personally, but the bit I do know I like a lot, for example, this "re-mix" of the music of Marin Marais: