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Martyn Joseph
Martyn Joseph is as performer like no other.
Touring in support of a brand new studio album “Songs for the Coming Home”, shades of Springsteen, John Mayer, Bruce Cockburn and Dave Matthews there may be – but he stands in his own right, built on a reputation for giving what thousands have described as the best live music experience of their lives.
Martyn’s ability to transcend preconceptions about how one man and a guitar can sound is testament to his talent and stage presence. In fact, you’d be forgiven for thinking that there’s more than one musician on stage.The shows are intelligently constructed, Martyn presenting his audience with challenging narratives and with an intensity that hits with the power of a right hook. He tempers this with songs that comfort and speak to the soul. His great improvisation and immediate topicality lead to an organic fluidity that makes every show different. His comfortable rapport and conversation with his audiences, his sense of humour and his ability to make everyone feel at home lie right at the heart of the evenings success.
Juxtaposition is a key theme in Martyn’s work. The simplicity and the complexity of the human condition and all that it encompasses is underpinned with a heady promise of hope. There is a versatility to Martyn’s music that is hard to categorise. Many have tried, resulting in labels such as Folk, Rock, Soul, Folk Funk and Americana; all of which somehow miss the mark. But sometimes music doesn’t need a defining genre and with the ability to articulate a sense of the bigger picture, Martyn’s music and social commentary manage to empower and speak for many. His songs are pictures, and stories, and feelings all put to music and delivered by a master craftsman.
Martyn Joseph. A unique talent driven by passion and love for his trade, continues to write, sing and play from the heart.
Greenbelt appearances
- Greenbelt 2013 Life Begins
- Greenbelt 2012 Saving Paradise
- Greenbelt 2011 Dreams Of Home
- Greenbelt 2010 The Art Of Looking Sideways
- Greenbelt 2009 Standing in the Long Now
- Greenbelt 2008 Rising Sun
- Greenbelt 2006 Redemption Songs
- Greenbelt 2001 Eternal Echoes
- Greenbelt 1999 Deeper and Wider
- Greenbelt 1992 Journeys of The Heart
More from Martyn Joseph on iTunes
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Songs for the Coming Home
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Treasure the Questions
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FestivaLink presents Martyn Joseph at Kerrrville Folk Festival, TX 5/29/11
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Run to Cover
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Under Lemonade Skies
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Deep Blue
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Thunder and Rainbows (The Best We Could Find)
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![Don't Talk About Love (1992-2002) [Live]](http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Music/51/0e/68/mzi.fovusydh.100x100-75.jpg)
Don't Talk About Love (1992-2002) [Live]
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Live Greenbelt - 2006
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Whoever It Was That Brought Me Here Will Have To Take Me Home
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Evolved
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Vegas
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Far from Silent
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Tangled Souls
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Full Colour Black and White
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An Aching and a Longing
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“@michaelfranti: @PaulW_Chambers @greenbelt we've had great experiences at Greenbelt. I hope to return!!!” <- We hope so too!
