Barrett Martin (born April 14, 1967) is an American record producer, percussionist, writer, and ethnomusicologist from

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. As a producer he has won one Latin Grammy and has been nominated in two other categories. As an ethnomusicologist he has produced two albums for the Shipibo Shamans in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, and one album for the Neets'ai Gwich'in in the Alaskan Arctic. He is perhaps best known for his work with the alternative rock bands

Screaming Trees Screaming Trees was an American rock band formed in Ellensburg, Washington, in 1984 by vocalist Mark Lanegan, guitarist Gary Lee Conner, bass player Van Conner, and drummer Mark Pickerel. Pickerel had been replaced by Barrett Martin by the time ...

and Mad Season. He was also a member of

Skin Yard Skin Yard was an American grunge band from Seattle, Washington, who were active from 1985 to 1992. The group never gained a mainstream audience, but were an influence on several of their grunge contemporaries, including Soundgarden, Screaming ...

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, and Walking Papers, and has performed as a session musician for many artists in a wide variety of genres.

Biography

Martin was born and raised in Olympia, Washington and studied music for two years at

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before dropping out and moving to

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to join that city's late-1980s alternative rock scene. He later earned bachelor's and master's degrees in ethnomusicology from the

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graduating Summa Cum Laude Martin joined

in 1990 and played on their fourth and fifth studio albums. While still a member of Skin Yard, Martin was recruited by

and played on their successful 1992 album '' Sweet Oblivion''. He then joined Screaming Trees full-time and remained with that band until it split in 2000. In the meantime, Martin formed the grunge supergroup Mad Season with Mike McCready,

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, and Baker Saunders; that band released the album '' Above'' in 1995, after which the members returned to their full-time bands. Martin formed another supergroup,

, in 1996 with

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; Martin produced nine albums with this group until it split in 2014. Martin was ordained as a

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monk in 2000, and started the company Sunyata Records & Books (now known as Sunyata Media) in 2001. He began recording as Barrett Martin Group in 2004, and has released ten studio albums under that name. He was appointed adjunct professor of ethnomusicology at Antioch University-Seattle from 2010-2017. Martin formed the supergroup Walking Papers with Jeff Angell and

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in 2012, and played on that band's first two albums. In 2013 he started writing a music and culture blog for ''

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'', and frequently writes for ''Riot Material''. Martin won the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award in 2014 for his writing. He formed yet another supergroup, Levee Walkers, with McKagan and McCready in 2016. In 2016, Martin produced the album ''

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'' by Brazilian musician

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, which won a

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the following year. In 2017, Martin published the book ''The Singing Earth'', recounting his musical experiences in multiple genres and nations. His second book ''The Way of the Zen Cowboy'' was published in 2019. In recent years he has produced albums for CeDell Davis (Even The Devil Gets The Blues) and

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Joy Harjo (I Pray For My Enemies), Hector Tellez Jr.

Discography

Barrett Martin Group

*''The Painted Desert'' – 2004 *''Earthspeaker'' – 2006 *''Zenga'' – 2009 *''Atlas'' – 2011 *''Artifact'' – 2012 *''Transcendence'' - 2018 *''Songs of the Firebird'' - 2019 *''Indwell'' - 2019 *Stillpoint - 2020

Mad Season

*'' Above'' – 1995 *Above (Deluxe Edition) - 2013

Screaming Trees

*'' Sweet Oblivion'' – 1992 *''

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'' – 1996 *'' Last Words: The Final Recordings'' – 2011

Shipibo Shamans

* ''Woven Songs Of The Amazon'' - 2006 * ''Woven Songs Of The Amazon II'' - 2019

Skin Yard

*'' 1000 Smiling Knuckles'' – 1991 *'' Inside the Eye'' – 1993 *'' Start at the Top'' – 2001

Tuatara

*'' Breaking the Ethers'' – 1997 *''

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'' – 1998 *''

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'' – 2002 *''

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'' – 2003 *'' East of the Sun'' – 2007 *'' West of the Moon'' – 2007 *''The Here and the Gone'' – 2009 *''Underworld'' – 2014 *''Shamanic Nights: Live in the City'' – 2016

Walking Papers

*'' Walking Papers'' – 2012 *'' WP2'' – 2018

Others

*Thin Men – ''A Round Hear'' – 1989 * Mike Johnson – ''Where Am I'' – 1994 *Various Artists – '' Working Class Hero'' – 1995 * Seaweed – '' Spanaway'' – 1995 * Mike Johnson – ''Year of Mondays'' – 1996 *

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– ''

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'' – 1997 * Mark Eitzel – ''

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'' – 1997 *

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– ''Ever Since I was a Kid'' – 1997 *Various Artists – ''Flying Traps'' – 1997 *

R.E.M. R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe, who were students at the University of Georgia. One of the first alternati ...

– '' Up'' – 1998 * Mark Lanegan – '' I'll Take Care of You'' – 1999 *

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– '' No. 4'' – 1999 *Various Artists – ''More Oar'' – 1999 *

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– '' Water to Drink'' – 2000 * Mark Olson – '' My Own Jo Ellen'' – 2000 * The Twilight Singers – '' Twilight as Played by The Twilight Singers'' – 2000 *

– '' Para Quando o Arco-Íris Encontrar o Pote de Ouro'' – 2000 *

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– ''

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'' – 2000 *

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– '' Shameless'' – 2001 *

– '' Infernal'' – 2001 * CeDell Davis – ''When Lightning Struck the Pine'' – 2002 *

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– ''Maconha Baiana'' – 2003 *

– '' A Letra A'' – 2003 *

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– ''Confession No. 1'' – 2003 *Roger Greenway – ''Wayt'' – 2004 *

Jack Endino Jack Endino (born Michael M. Giacondino; 1964) is an American producer and musician based in Seattle, Washington. Long associated with Seattle label Sub Pop and the grunge movement, Endino worked on seminal albums from bands including Mudhoney, ...

– '' Permanent Fatal Error'' – 2005 *Shipibo Shamans – ''Woven Songs of the Amazon'' – 2006 * Bola Abimbola – ''Ara Kenge'' – 2006 * Dave Carter – ''Commitment and Change'' – 2008 * Under The Rose – ''Under The Rose'' – 2009 * Rusty Willoughby – ''CoBirds Unite'' – 2010 *

e Os Infernais – '' Sei'' – 2012 * Mark Lanegan – ''Imitations'' – 2013 *Vaudeville Etiquette – ''Debutantes & Dealers'' – 2014 * CeDell Davis – ''Last Man Standing'' – 2015 * CeDell Davis – ''Even The Devil Gets The Blues'' – 2016 *Buffalo Summer - Second Sun - 2016 *Ayron Jones - Audio Paint Job - 2017 *Various Artists - The Singing Earth - 2017 *Levee Walkers & Ayron Jones - 2017 *Walking Papers - WP2 - 2018 *Barrett Martin Group - Transcendence - 2018 *Shipibo Shamans - Woven Songs Of The Amazon II - 2019 *Barrett Martin Group - Songs Of The Firebird - 2019 *Barrett Martin Group - Indwell - 2019 *Barrett Martin Group - Scattered Diamonds - 2020 *Arctic Neets'ai Gwich'in - A Message To The World - 2020 *Buffalo Summer - Desolation Blue - 2020 *Joy Harjo - I Pray For My Enemies - 2021 *Ayron Jones - Child Of The State - 2021 *Barrett Martin Group - Stillpoint - 2021 *Jack Endino – Set Myself On Fire - 2021

Film soundtracks

*'' Deceiver'' – 1998 *''The Best Men'' – 1999 *'' Lush'' – 1999 *''The Fog Ravens'' – 2003 *''Ausangate'' – 2006 *''Woven Songs of the Amazon'' – 2006 *''The Last Bluesman'' – 2022

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Martin, Barrett 1967 births Living people Musicians from Olympia, Washington American rock drummers Grunge musicians Mad Season (band) members Screaming Trees members Singers from Washington (state) R.E.M. personnel Western Washington University alumni The Minus 5 members Tuatara (band) members Rumi scholars 20th-century American drummers American male drummers Skin Yard members