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Barrett Martin (M)
14-04-1967
country: United States
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Barrett Martin is a man who has worn many hats over the course of almost 20 years as a professional musician. As a drummer, percussionist, composer, producer, world traveler, ethnomusicologist, and now A&R for his own label, he knows the world of music well indeed.
Born April 14th, 1967 in Olympia, Washington, Barrett began his musical studies at Western Washington University studying jazz theory and classical percussion in the mid 1980's, until moving to Seattle in 1987. Barrett's first group in Seattle, Skin Yard, was a heavy art rock combo that featured Sub Pop producer Jack Endino on guitar. The band recorded for SST/Cruz Records, the independent label that launched the careers of many well-known alternative bands in the 80’s and 90’s. The Seattle music scene, still in it's infancy at this time, would later explode onto the world in the early nineties with bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Barrett’s own band, the Screaming Trees.
In late 1991, Barrett joined the Screaming Trees, a seminal band in the emerging Seattle sound. The Trees made three critically acclaimed albums for Epic/Sony during that decade, maintaining a relentless touring schedule that took them all over the western world. Ultimately, this grueling routine would lead to the break up of the band in 1999, at which point the band members decided to pursue different careers.
Barrett had already ventured into new musical realms during the course of his tenure in the Trees, ........click for full story of Barrett Martin
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