Martyn Bates song-list
You can now find an alphabetical listing of all published songs by Martyn Bates (including a many pieces were he has made important contributions). Have a look at the Song-list!

Dissonance/Antagonistic Music (ASR 001, Experimental noise pieces, 1979/80, C 60 Cassette)
Bird Trapping Wing (In Steel Bars)/Ship in Distance with Cerise Backdrop/Child Squashing Frog/Planes in Collision, Falling/Mona Lisa’s Sister and Subsequent Burning/Figure Amongst Ruins/Dead Seahorse with Sky Melting/Engine Failing-Resultant Crash/Church with New Shoes Squeaking
[A version (‘American version’) of this cassette were also released with a new mix incorporating new material – ASR 009. There were also the original ID Cassettes release which were double the length of the A-Scale release.]

Letters Written (TRED 38, Oct 1982, 10”) Reviews
Morning Singing/Cut Like Sunset/In June/Mirrored in Me/Overflowing Look/Aftertaste of Old/Jagged Tears of Words/Letters from Yesterday/Calls of Birds/Hungry Like Sharp Desire

The Look of Love ((12) Cherry 99, 1987, 7”/Ep12”)
The Look of Love/Adam & Eve & Pinch Me/May 3rd [last one only appears on 12”]

The Return of the Quiet (BRED 81, Nov 1987, Lp/Cassette) Reviews
Love Fell Silent/Last Chapel Picnic/At the Return of the Quiet/She Will Know/You’ve Got to Farewell/July Late Afternoon/Sad Song of Almost/The Look of Love/Etc. Angel

Love Smashed on a Rock (Integrity IR 002/IR 002 CD, Oct 1988 (Lp)/Jan 1990 (Cd), Lp/Cd) Reviews
I’d Better Mean It All Now/Since I Can’t Have You/You So Secret/This is What I Say to Love/Dark’s Chorus/Love Smashed on a Rock/We Won’t Begin to Belong/Azure Flag/She’s on a Pedestal/You’re the Spell (I Can’t Break)/And I Don’t Know How It Will Be/Down Amongst the Lonely [last two only appear on Cd] [Lp also issued in Greece with You So Secret 12” included]

You So Secret (IR 004, 1989, Ep12”) Reviews
You So Secret/And I Don’t Know How It Will Be/Born and Beginning/When You Praise Her

On the Day You Climb Down (IR 005-7, 1989, 7”)
On the Day You Climb Down/City, All of Strangers

Letters to a Scattered Family (IR 005/IR 005 CD, Feb 1990, Lp/Cd) Reviews
On the Day You Climb Down/Snow Rages/City, All of Strangers/Little Days/Your Jewled Footsteps/For Love, Waiting to Die/Shuttered Nights/First and Last February/This One Refrain/I’ll Wrap Your Hopes
(Cd also include): The Return of the Quiet Lp (see above) apart from: Love Fell Silent/Etc. Angel

Port of Stormy Lights (SSMCD 02, 1989/90, Cd-Ep)
3 Weeks and After/She Waltzes by This Window/Beaten Gold/Ways of Going

Stars Come Trembling (IR 011 (/MC/CD), Oct 1990, Lp/Mc/Cd)
Fired High/Her and Some Heaven/The Words of the Haunted/Flashes of Sun/The Gift of Lieing/End of Sleep/Lightening Following/Later War Crys/Wintersky/Glow of Sight

The Return of the Quiet (Toy’s Factory tfck-88815, 1991, Cd) Reviews
Love Fell Silent/Last Chapel Picnic/At the Return of the Quiet/She Will Know/You’ve Got to Farewell/July Late Afternoon/Sad Song of Almost/The Look of Love/Etc. Angel/Adam & Eve & Pinch Me/May3rd [last two only appear on Cd and are from the 12”Ep The Look of Love].

Murder Ballads (Drift) (Musica Maxima Magnetica eee 26, special project together with M.J. Harris, 1994, Cd) Reviews
The Death of Polly/The Fowler/Lucy Wan/Long Lankin

Chamber Music 1 (Sub Rosa SR81, Dec 23 1994, Cd) Reviews
Strings in the Earth and Air/Dark Leaves/Twilight Turns from Amethyst/Yellow Keys/At That Hour When All Things Have Repose/When the Sky Star Goes Forth in Heaven/Lean Out of the Window, Goldenhair/I Would in That Sweet Bosom Be/Sad Austerities/My Love is in Light Attire/Who Goes Amid the Green Wood/Rich Apparel/Winds of May, That Dance on the Sea/Silvery Arches/Bright Cap and Streamers/Bid Adieu/What Counsel has the Hooded Moon/Go Seek Her Out Courteously/Nightdew/My Dove, My Beautiful One/From Dewey Dreams, My Soul Arise/The Flowery Bells of Morn/O Cool is the Valley Now/Thrushes Calling/Because Your Voice Was at My Side/Stranger/O Sweetheart, Hear You

Mystery Seas (Letters Written #2) (A-Scale 018, 1995, Cd) Reviews
You, Looking to Me for a Sign/Shorepoem/Calm of Dark/Imagination Feels Like Poison/Trade Winds/Over the Waters/Everywhere There’s Rain/Empty Pages/Midday Coming Misty/On the Beach of Fontana/Sky After All/Fragment (Little Star #1)/If I Could See in Everyone/Of Night/Gift

Chamber Music II (Sub Rosa SR91, Jan 5 1996, Cd) Reviews
Be Not Sad/In the Dark Pine-Wood/His Love/He Who Hath Glory Lost/His Companion/Of That So Sweet Imprisonment/This Heart/Between Kiss and Kiss/Silently She’s Combing/On the Drappled Grass/Lightly Come or Lightly Go/Thou Leanest to the Shell of Night/At Ghosting Hour/Though I Thy Mithridates Were/Gentle Lady, Do Not Sing/Dear Heart/Love Came to Us/O, It Was Out by Donnycarney/Bat/Rain Has Fallen/Now O Now/The Wind is Whistling/Sleep Now/Unquiet/All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters/I Hear an Army/Fluttering Whips

Letters Written & The Return of the Quiet (CDMRED 134, Oct 7 1996, Cd) Reviews (see respective album above)
Morning Singing/Cut Like Sunset/In June/Mirrored in Me/Overflowing Look/Aftertaste of Old/Jagged Tears of Words/Letters from Yesterday/Calls of Birds/Hungry Like Sharp Desire//Love Fell Silent/Last Chapel Picnic/At the Return of the Quiet/She Will Know/You’ve Got to Farewell/July Late Afternoon/Sad Song of Almost/The Look of Love/Etc. Angel

Murder Ballads (Passages) (Musica Maxima Magnetica eee 36, special project together with M.J. Harris, 1997, Cd) Reviews
The Bramble Briar/The Cruel Mother/The Banks of Fordie/The Murder of Maria Marten

Imagination Feels Like Poison (ASR 022, April 1997, Cd + lyric book) Reviews
See link for lyric book contents!
Mock Sun #1/I Can’t Look for You/Bones of Your Face/Years of Salt/I Forget You/The God on the Tree*/Full Sail/Flanaghan*/Fully Bright/Mystery Seas/This Wayward Love/Fantaccini Playground/Ellen Massey*/Letters to a Scattered Family/Silvery Images*/No-One Spoke/The Mountain Tomb (poem by W.B. Yeats). (* – instrumental tracks)

The lyric book was also released separately in February 1997.

Imagination Feels Like Poison (ASR 022, Feb 1998, Cd – the “full edition” without the lyric book) Reviews
Mock Sun #1/I Can’t Look for You/Bones of Your Face/Years of Salt/I Forget You/The God on the Tree*/Full Sail/Flanaghan*/Fully Bright/Mystery Seas/This Wayward Love/Fantaccini Playground/Ellen Massey*/Letters to a Scattered Family/Silvery Images*/No-One Spoke/The Mountain Tomb (poem by W.B. Yeats). (* – instrumental tracks)

Just After Sunset – The Poetry of Rainer M. Rilke (Labor 8313-2, Anne Clark & Martyn Bates, May 17 1998, Cd)
Silent Forces/Autumn/From the Book of Pilgrimage/Song of the Sea/To Music/Going Blind/The Garden of Olives/Time and Again/The Panther/From the Book of Monastic Life #1/The Fruit/Early Spring/The Apple Orchard/From the Book of Monastic Life #2/Autumn Day/Departure of the Prodigal Son/Sehnsucht

Murder Ballads (Incest Songs) (Musica Maxima Magnetica eee 40, special project together with M.J. Harris, June 1998, Cd) Reviews
The Bonny Hind/Sheath and Knife/The Two Brothers/Edward

Murder Ballads (The Complete Collection) (Invisible inv 127, special project together with M.J. Harris, Nov 17 1998, Cd) Reviews
The Death of Polly/The Fowler/Lucy Wan/Long Lankin//The Bramble Briar/The Cruel Mother/The Banks of Fordie/The Murder of Maria Marten//The Bonny Hind/Sheath and Knife/The Two Brothers/Edward

In the Garden of Wild Stars (Musica Maxima Magnetica eee37, Martyn Bates and Alan Trench (Orchis) as 12,000 Days, May 15 2000, Cd) Reviews
Let the Evening In/Children of the Winter House/‘Locksley Hall’ (setting of part of Tennyson’s poem)/The Moon is Down/The Garden of Wild Stars/Stricken Fields/The Yearling/Dun Fox/Jennet #1/Jennet #2/12,000 Days/The Song of the Wandering Aengus (a setting of a poem by Yeats)/Burning Incense/Sally Free and Easy/the traditional ‘The Grey Cock’/Let the Evening In (reprise)

Plague of Years (Stride Books, December 2000, lyric book) See link for contents!

Dance of Hours (NDN 27, April 4 2001, Cd (mini-album)) Reviews
Poems Pennyeach/Wishing-Songs/Stars Above/War-Like/Bethlehem/Alone Reprise/Once Blessed/The Heart’s Song

The Devil in the Grain (TRI 108/EFA 16918-2, Martyn Bates and Alan Trench (Orchis) as Twelve Thousands Days, August 17 2001, Cd) Reviews
Song of the Prophet/Beauty is Fading/All in the May/Darkness Rising/Dream of You/Whitestone Day/Glistening Praise/The Devil in the Grain/The Hand of Glory/Plea

Just After Sunset – The Poetry of Rainer M. Rilke (netMusicZone B00006ZY6W, Anne Clark & Martyn Bates, November 4 2002, re-release Cd)
Silent Forces/Autumn/From the Book of Pilgrimage/Song of the Sea/To Music/Going Blind/The Garden of Olives/Time and Again/The Panther/From the Book of Monastic Life #1/The Fruit/Early Spring/The Apple Orchard/From the Book of Monastic Life #2/Autumn Day/Departure of the Prodigal Son/Sehnsucht/Shell Song (live video)/Echoes Remain Forever (live video)

Leitmotif (The Folklore of the Moon vol. 4) (Hand/Eye H-E Moon 4.2, June 22 2005, Cdr-Ep (100 copies)) Reviews
The Dim and the Yellow Light …/The Twa Sisters-Minorie pt. 1/The Lovely Moon/The Twa Sisters-Minorie pt. 2/Midnight Labours/The Twa Sisters-Minorie pt. 3/The Bright Moon

At the Landgate (Shining Day shine 02, Martyn Bates and Alan Trench (Orchis) as Twelve Thousands Days, lim. ed. 200, July 2005, Cd-Ep) Reviews
Christmas and May/Landgate/Once Loved

Shayo Tour-Ep (Shayo, other side In Gowan Ring, August 27 2005, Cd-Ep (very limited ed.)
Sir Hugh (Child #155)/Seven Yellow Gypsies (version)

Mystery Seas (Letters Written #2) (Shayo 006, March 2006, Cd) Reviews
You, Looking to Me for a Sign/Shorepoem/Calm of Dark/Imagination Feels Like Poison/Trade Winds/Over the Waters/Everywhere There’s Rain/Empty Pages/Midday Coming Misty/On the Beach of Fontana/Sky After All/Fragment (Little Star #1)/If I Could See in Everyone/Of Night/Gift

To a Child Dancing in the Wind (Transgredient TR-03, collaboration with Troum, May 2006, Cd) Reviews
Mad as the Mist and Snow/The Arrow/The Magi/I Made My Song/To a Child Dancing in the Wind/Mad Reprise

Your Jewled Footsteps (solo and collaboration works 1979-2006) (Sub Rosa SR 257, September 15 2006, Cd) Reviews
Cut Like Sunset/Shorepoem/I Can’t Look For You/First and Last February/The God on the Tree/Morning Singing/Of That So Sweet Imprisonment/Mirrored in Me/Twilight Turns From Amethyst/Once Loved/Dissonance Excerpt/Later War Cries/Poems Pennyeach/The Garden of Olives/No-one Spoke/Overflowing Look/Cherry Tree Carol/Once Blessed/The Cruel Mother/The Dim and the Yellow Light …

From the Walled Garden (Shining Day SHINE 05 CD, Martyn Bates and Alan Trench (Orchis) as Twelve Thousands Days, October 29 2006, lim. ed. 300, Cd) Reviews
Who Lives Here?/Ballad of the Cutty Wren/Song of Slowsand/Monument and Effigy/All Will Fade and Die/Sparklenight/Cries Distant Calling/Thistles/The Cruel Mother/Miracles Beginning

Dissonance/Antagonistic Music (Beta-lactam Ring Records mt196cd, Martyn Bates as Migraine Inducers, June 26 2007. 1st pressing of 1000 deluxe gatefold sleeve, first 50 numbered and signed, 2xCd) Reviews

Songs of Transformation (Musica Maxima Magnetica eee 49, Martyn Bates & Max Eastley, August 24 2007, Cd) Reviews
If All The Young Men/John Barleycorn/The Cherry Tree Carol/George Collins/The Red Herring/Nottamun Town/Down in Yon Forest/Two Magicians/Cruel Sister

Americas Dissonance (Beta-lactam Ring Records mt197lp, Martyn Bates as Migraine Inducers, September 18 2007. Ed. of 150 copies on 220 gr. vinyl, Lp) Reviews

Americas Dissonance/UK Dissonance (Beta-lactam Ring Records mt198, Martyn Bates as Migraine Inducers, September 18 2007. Ed. of 25 deluxe ed. gatefold sleeve, numbered & signed insert, 2xLp) Reviews

A Map of the Stars in Summer (Moments – A-Scale ASR 037, one song (#3) by Eyeless In Gaza, March 31 2008, lyric book ISBN 978-2-9600784-0-4 + Cd- (mini-album)) Reviews
See link for lyric book contents!
Reedsong/Red Berries/A Needle to North/Fell Hill/Start Where You Are/Where Was the World

Compilations

I only list compilations where Martyn Bates first published a song that later were published elsewhere or where the only place to find the song is on the compilation in question! I have also not listed all of the projects that Martyn Bates has contributed to (like the Simon Fisher Turner’s The Last of England, The Garden and Shwarma).

Sunset Gun Audiozine (?, 1981, Cassette)
Postwar Baby

Wonderful World of Glass (GLASS 010, 1981, Lp) Reviews
Nascent Fragrance of Skin

Fabgear (Polystar PSCR-1016, 1990, Lp/Cd)
Once Again

Brittle Days (Imaginary Records III Cd 026, 1992, Cd)
Know

Psychometry (Anne Clark, SPV Records SPV CD 084-89282, 1994, Cd)
Swallow Song (live)

Magnetic Submission (MFTEQ93/1, 1995, Cd)
The Bloody Gardener (Martyn Bates & M.J. Harris)

Terra Serpentes (World Serpent Distribution WSDCD 016, 1997, 2Cd)
Bahnhofstraße

Hand/Eye (Dark Holler h/e010, 2002, 2Cd)
Seven Yellow Gypsies

John Barleycorn Reborn: Dark Britannica (Cold Spring CSR84CD, August 24 2007, 2Cd + 1Cd download or 3Cd download)
The Resurrection Apprentice

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