Recordings

Bend it Like Beckett
Those who are familiar with the work of Samuel Beckett will know the importance of sound in his work. Beckett had a great understanding of sound and a profound knowledge of the practice of listening.
Art Trail/Soundworks is this year based in Shandon, Cork City. On Beckett’s taking leave of Ireland he made a final call to Cork, to Shandon, to visit the grave of Frances Sylvester O’Mahony, aka Fr Prout, a writer he greatly admired. It seemed appropriate to mark the occasion of the centenary of Becketts birth by compiling this CD of one hundred works.

Scene One: A Field
  1. Reference Point
  2. The Garden Has Many Mirrors
  3. The Broken Sea
  4. Ash Wednesday
  5. The Living Torch
  6. Rusting Iron Ships
  7. Their Frail Song
  8. The Waves
  9. My Forefathers Time
  10. Slowly Our Ghosts Drag Home
  11. Ten Thousand Corpses
  12. The Lost Generation

All compositions Martin A Smith
Tim Hooper: Guitar, Effects  6, 8, 11
Michael Hooper: Trumpet  3, 4

This album is available for download here

In Mind
Written for the exhibition "In Mind" by the painter Anne Windsor

Elvan Erdan
Written for an exhibition by the painter Elvan Erdan

Road To Acceptance
Written for the exhibition "The Art Of Memory" at The British Council

Written and produced by Igor Tojcic and Martin A Smith
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Spring Goeth All In White
A sound installation written for an exhibition at The English Folk Dance And Song Society

Scratch
Written for the exhibition "Scratch" by the painter Anne Windsor

Music for the documentary The Vampire Killers for Channel 5

Music from the film Luminal
Featuring Music by Michael Nyman, Simeon Warburton, Gavin Rossdale and Martin A Smith

Landscape Number 1
Music for the exhibition "Outsize" at The Museum Of Design And Architecture

With Dildano

The Last Of England
  1. Farewell To Wrath
  2. Her Hands Were Like Gloves
  3. Waves Of Soil
  4. From The Remembered Vale
  5. The Sleep Thieves
  6.They Shall Only Kiss Your Mask
  7.Onto The Lizard

Written and produced by Martin A Smith and Tim Hooper

With Dildano

Fruit
  1. The North Sea
  2. Cracked Skin
  3. I Almost Held It In My Hands
  4. A Corporate Death
  5. Baby Americans

Written, sourced, stolen, played, programmed, recorded, interfered with, edited, designed and adored by Tim Hooper and Martin A Smith

With Stone Idols

Reversion
  1. Under Dark Skies
  2. Nocturnal
  3. Tower Of Babel
  4. Bond Of Union
  5. Moondogs
  6. Reversion
  7. Absense And Influence
  8. Transilience
  9. Synchronism
  10. Oracle
  11. Lumiere Du Matin

Written and produced by Rob Jenkins and Martin A Smith with Neil Cowley
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With Alana

  1. Dark Angel
  2. Vertigo
  3. Navigator

Poetry by Alana Pryce and music by Martin a Smith

Encyclopaedia Of The Dead
  1. Moonlight Serenade
  2. Beautiful And Damned
  3. Cry
  4. Double
  5. Savage Garden
  6. Encyclopaedia Of The Dead
  7. Adagio

Written and produced by Martin A Smith

With No Candide

The track Voices In The Dark appeared on the compilations

Triphoprisy IV
Featuring tracks and mixes byKruder And Dorfmeister, Garbage, Jimi Tenor, Mono, Tricky, Propellerheads, and Psychonauts

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Lost In Space

Written and produced by Mike Patto and Martin A Smith

With Sonic Avatar

Seraphim
Featured on the compilation Goa Trance

Written and produced by Martin A Smith

With Glass

Glass
  1. Safe From Harm
  2. Stream Of Thought
  3. Part Of You
  4. His Only Prayer
  5. In Your Arms
  6. The Constancy Of Love
  7. Frances Grey
  8. Belong
  9. Talk To Me

Written by George Calil, Richard Ruse and Martin A Smith

With Claudia Brucken and Suzanne Freytag

  1. Break The Ice
  2. Every Beat Of My Heart
  3. Crash

Written by Claudia Brucken, Suzanne Freytag, Richard Ruse and Martin A Smith

With Under A Glass Bell

Written and produced by Martin A Smith and Richard Ruse

With Under A Glass Bell

I Long To Hear The Music Of Picasso's Guitars
  1. Faith Dies In The Heat
  2. Your Sleepless Dream
  3. The Bird Charmer's Destiny
  4. The Language Of Waves
  5. Echo's Revenge
  6. A Reflection - Light On Water
  7. Spirits Ritual Blade
  8. This Failing Heart

Written and produced by Martin A Smith, Tim Hooper and N. Bazeley-White

With The Thin Veil

Ether
  1. Le Poete Endormi
  2. Finistere
  3. East Window
  4. Hands Of Grace
  5. Virgin Darque

N. Bazeley-White, Martin A Smith, Richard Ruse, Tim Hooper and Mike Keane

With The Thin Veil

Venice In The Rain
  1. The Ghosts Of Autumn
  2. Flight Of Ravens
  3. The Widening Circle
  4. Walking From The Wall
  5. Venice In The Rain
  6. Don’t Keep Him Waiting
  7. Violence In The Studio
  8. Indonesian Aerial Aspect
  9. Fear Armada
  10. Never Finished
  11. The Failing Heart
  12. Edith Sitwell

Written and produced by Martin A Smith, Tim Hooper and N. Bazeley-White

With The Thin Veil

You, Me And My Mum
  1. Aerial Sunset
  2. Holiday Romance
  3. There Is No Way
  4. Don't Keep Him Waiting
  5. Bartholomews 222
  6. Never Finished
  7. More Than Words Can Say
  8. Playground Summer
  9. Seventh Return
  10. The News And It's Watcher
  11. Forever Sailing
  12. In The Wood Where Worlds Meet

Martin A Smith and Tim Hooper
“…I don’t know why you’re worried, it’ll only be you, me and my Mum.”

With The Thin Veil

3 Songs
  1. Playground Summer
  2. Don’t Keep Him Waiting
  3. Bartholomew’s 222

Written and produced by Tim Hooper and Martin A Smith

With The Thin Veil

Iona
  The Slow Descent
  1. At Open Doors
  2. A Painting On A Wall
  3. Baile Mor
  4. Less Than One Hour To Perfection
  5. Failing To See The Meaning

  A Return
  6. Returning At Midnight
  7. Mosiac
  8. In Dark Rooms I Sit
  9. White Rose
  10. Lord Thou Knowest…

Written, played and produced on this occasion by Martin A Smith and Tim Hooper

With Chanute

Chanute
  1. Master Of The Flowers
  2. Sirens (Ship Of Fools)
  3. The Lady Of The Lake
  4. Mandragola
  5. I Won't Forget
  6. Can You Recognize Evil?
  7. Farmer And The King
  8. The Man Behind The Gun...
      ...Divorce

Justin Hodder - Drums, Percussion
Martin A Smith - Organ, Synthesiser, Piano
Neil Scott - Bass Guitar
Tim Hooper - Guitar, Vocals

With Have A Nice Day

Have A Nice Day
  1. War Of The Roses (Hooper, Smith)
  2. I See Myself In You (Hooper)
  3. Let It Be (Lennon, McCartney)
  4. Curse Of The Wight (Smith, Hooper)
  5. Horse With No Name (America)
  6. Man Behind The Gun (Hooper)
  7. I See Myself In You (Hooper)

Martin A Smith - Organ, Electric Piano, Synthesizer
Rob Harvey - Bass Guitar
Tim Hooper - Guitar, Vocals
Jeff Smith - Lead Guitar
Mark Newton - Drums

Music From The Twelve Hour Celebration Of Spring

The Twelve Hour Celebration Of Spring
  1. Winter – The Thaw (Hooper)
  2. Rainforest (Hooper, Scott, Smith)
  3. Still Waters Run Deep (Hooper Scott, Smith)
  4. Of Mice And Yaks (Harrison, Hooper)
  5. Beyond (Fobbester, Hooper, Scott, Smith)
  6. Gulliver’s Curse (Hooper, Scott, Smith)
  7. Silent Song (Hooper)

Land Without Seasons
  1. 55 Second Intro (Theme)
  2. In And With Time
  3. Empty Stage . Theatre Ghosts
  4. Two Spies Go Mad In Russia
  5. Ivan Denisovich And Winter
  6. 90 Second Midway Theme
  7. Two Russians Go Mad At Work
  8. Orient Express
  9. Drunk
  (All tracks by Hooper)

Ken Fobbester - Spoken Vocal on ‘Beyond’
David Harrison - Synthesizer on ‘Of Mice And Yaks’
Tim Hooper - Guitar, Effects and Vocals, Bass on ‘Gulliver’s Curse’
Neil Scott - Bass Guitar, Lead Guitar on ‘Gulliver’s Curse’
Martin A Smith - Electric Piano, Synthesizer

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