Tucker Martine
Tucker Martine (born January 14, 1972) is an American record producer, musician and composer. In 2010, Paste Magazine included Martine in their list of the 10 Best Producers of the Decade.[1]
Early life
Tucker Martine, the son of singer and songwriter Layng Martine, Jr.,[2] grew up in Nashville, Tennessee where he played in bands and tinkered with recording devices before moving to Boulder, Colorado upon graduating from high school. In Colorado, Martine was a DJ at a public radio station KGNU. He would frequently play two or more records at once on the air. Martine also took courses at the Naropa Institute where he studied sound collage and befriended Harry Smith - the ethnomusicologist, artist and Kabbalist - who made a large impression on Martine.
Career
In 1993, Martine moved to Seattle, Washington where he began to combine his skills and interests. He joined Wayne Horvitz's chamber group The 4 Plus 1 Ensemble where Martine's instrument was a series of looping and sound manipulating devices which were fed by the groups otherwise acoustic instruments. Martine received a Grammy nomination in 2007 in the "best engineered album" category for the Floratone album with Bill Frisell on Blue Note. He has also released several albums of his field recordings. As a composer and musician Martine has released 2 albums under the recording pseudonym Mount Analog as well as Mylab (a collaboration with keyboardist Wayne Horvitz) and Orchestra Dim Bridges (with violist Eyvind Kang). Additionally, Microsoft called upon Martine's creativity when they asked him to help compose the startup and branding sounds for Microsoft's new operating system Vista.[3] Today Martine lives in Portland and continues to make records in his own studio, Flora Recording & Playback.
Martine has worked with artists such as The Decemberists, R.E.M., My Morning Jacket, Modest Mouse, Beth Orton, Neko Case, Mudhoney, Bill Frisell, Sufjan Stevens, Spoon, Camera Obscura, Jesse Sykes and Laura Veirs.
Discography
As Tucker Martine
- Eat the Dream: Moroccan Reveries (1994)
- Bush Taxi Mali (1998)
- Orchestra Dim Bridges with Eyvind Kang (2004)
- Broken Hearted Dragonflies: Insect Electronica from Southeast Asia (2005)
With Floratone[4]
- Floratone (2007)
- Floratone II 2012
With Wayne Horvitz
- 4+1 Ensemble (Intuition, 1996 [1998])
- From a Window (Avant, 2000)
- Mylab (2004)
As Mount Analog
- Mount Analog (1997)
- New Skin (2004)
Selected discography
| Artist | Release | Contribution | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karl Blau | Introducing Karl Blau | Producer / Engineer / Mixing / Percussion | 2016 |
| case/lang/veirs | case/lang/veirs | Producer / Engineer / Mixing / Percussion | 2016 |
| Aoife O'Donovan | In The Magic Hour | Producer / Engineer / Mixing / Percussion | 2016 |
| My Morning Jacket | The Waterfall | Producer / Engineer / Mixing / Percussion | 2015 |
| The Decemberists | What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World | Producer / Engineer / Mixing / Group Singing | 2015 |
| Modest Mouse | Strangers To Ourselves | Producer / Engineer | 2015 |
| Sufjan Stevens | Carrie and Lowell | Recordist | 2015 |
| Punch Brothers | The Phosphorescent Blues | Recordist | 2015 |
| Bill Frisell | Guitar in the Space Age! | Engineer | 2014 |
| Brian Blade | Landmarks | Engineer | 2014 |
| Don Henley / Blind Pilot | Looking into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne | Producer / Engineer / Mixing | 2014 |
| Jenny Scheinman | The Littlest Prisoner | Producer / Engineer / Mixing | 2014 |
| Camera Obscura | Desire Lines | Producer / Engineer / Mixing | 2013 |
| Lori Goldston | Film Scores | Engineer, Producer | 2013 |
| Jars of Clay | Inland | Producer / Engineer | 2013 |
| The Avett Brothers | Magpie and the Dandelion | Engineer | 2013 |
| Jim James | Regions of Light and Sound of God | Engineer | 2013 |
| Richard Buckner | Surrounded | Mixing | 2013 |
| Neko Case | The Worse Things Get... | Producer / Engineer / Mixing | 2013 |
| Laura Veirs | Warp & Weft | Producer / Engineer / Mixing | 2013 |
| Lau | Race the Loser | Producer | 2012 |
| Black Prairie | A Tear in the Eye Is a Wound in the Heart | Producer / Engineer / Mixing | 2012 |
| Floratone | Floratone II | Composer, Engineer, Producer | 2012 |
| Jenny Scheinman | Mischief & Mayhem | Mixing | 2012 |
| Beth Orton | Sugaring Season | Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Percussion | 2012 |
| The Avett Brothers | The Carpenter | Engineer | 2012 |
| Tift Merritt | Traveling Alone | Producer, Engineer | 2012 |
| The Chieftains | Voice of Ages | Engineer | 2012 |
| The Decemberists | We All Raise Our Voices to the Air: Live Songs 04.11.08 | Mixing | 2012 |
| Various Artists | The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond | Engineer | 2012 |
| My Morning Jacket | Circuital | Producer / Engineer / Mixing / Photography | 2011 |
| Abigail Washburn | City of Refuge | Producer / Engineer / Mixing / Drums | 2011 |
| R.E.M. | Collapse into Now | Engineer | 2011 |
| Wild Flag | Wild Flag | Mixing | 2011 |
| The Decemberists | Long Live the King | Producer / Engineer / Mixing | 2011 |
| Thao & Mirah | Thao & Mirah | Mixing | 2011 |
| The Decemberists | The King Is Dead | Producer / Engineer / Mixing | 2011 |
| John Wesley Harding | The Sound of His Own Voice | Mixing | 2011 |
| Laura Veirs | Tumble Bee: Laura Veirs Sings Folk Songs for Children | Producer / Engineer / Mixing / Drums | 2011 |
| Blind Pilot | We Are the Tide | Mixing | 2011 |
| Quasi | American Gong | Mixing | 2010 |
| Black Prairie | Feast of the Hunters' Moon | Producer, Engineer | 2010 |
| Laura Veirs | July Flame | Producer / Engineer / Mixing / Drums / Photography | 2010 |
| Tift Merritt | See You on the Moon | Producer / Engineer / Mixing | 2010 |
| Langhorne Slim | Be Set Free | Mixing | 2009 |
| Laura Gibson | Beasts of Seasons | Producer / Engineer / Mixing | 2009 |
| Bill Frisell | Disfarmer | Engineer, Mixing | 2009 |
| Spoon | Got Nuffin' | Mixing | 2009 |
| Thao & The Get Down Stay Down | Know Better Learn Faster | Producer / Engineer / Mixing | 2009 |
| Brian Blade | Mama Rosa | Composer, Engineer, Mixing | 2009 |
| Loch Lomond | Night Bats | Mixing | 2009 |
| Bill Frisell | The Best of Bill Frisell, Vol. 1: Folk Songs | Audio Engineer, Engineer, Mixing | 2009 |
| The Decemberists | The Hazards of Love | Producer, Engineer, Mixing | 2009 |
| Death Cab for Cutie | The Open Door EP | Mixing | 2009 |
| Mirah | (A)spera | Producer, Engineer. Mixing | 2009 |
| Wayne Horvitz | A Walk In The Dark | Engineer | 2008 |
| Colin Meloy | Colin Meloy Sings Live! | Assembly, Mixing | 2008 |
| Transmissionary Six | Cosmonautical | Mixing | 2008 |
| Chris Walla | Field Manual | Mixing | 2008 |
| Musée Mécanique | Hold This Ghost | Mixing | 2008 |
| Wayne Horvitz | One Dance Alone | Engineer | 2008 |
| Brian Blade | Season of Changes | Engineer, Mixing | 2008 |
| Mudhoney | The Lucky Ones | Producer / Engineer / Mixing | 2008 |
| Thao & the Get Down Stay Down | We Brave Bee Stings and All | Producer / Engineer / Mixing / Musician | 2008 |
| Steve Wynn | Crossing Dragon Bridge | Mixing | 2008 |
| Marco Benevento | Invisible Baby | Engineer | 2008 |
| Floratone | Floratone | Producer, Composer, Engineer, Producer | 2007 |
| Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter | Like, Love, Lust and the Open Halls of the Soul | Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Percussion | 2007 |
| Laura Veirs | Saltbreakers | Beats, Drums, Engineer, Mixing, Percussion, Producer | 2007 |
| Jim White | Transnormal Skiperoo | Drums, Engineer, Handclapping, Producer, Vocals | 2007 |
| Johanna Kunin | Clouds Electric | Producer, Mixing, Performer | 2006 |
| Heather Greene | Five Dollar Dress | Beats, Engineer, Mixing, Percussion, Producer | 2006 |
| Mike Dumovich | Mesojunarian | Drums, Engineer, Noise, Producer | 2006 |
| Transmissionary Six | Radar | Audio Production, Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Shaker, Tambourine | 2006 |
| The Decemberists | The Crane Wife | Producer, Engineer, Mixing, | 2006 |
| Mudhoney | Under a Billion Suns | Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Treatments | 2006 |
| Bill Frisell | East/West | Engineer, Mixing | 2005 |
| The Long Winters | Ultimatum | Audio Production, Producer | 2005 |
| Erin McKeown | We Will Become Like Birds | Producer / Engineer / Mixing / Musician | 2005 |
| Laura Veirs | Year of Meteors | Producer / Engineer / Mixing / Musician | 2005 |
| Laura Veirs | Carbon Glacier | Producer, Musician, Engineer, Mixing, Composer, Treatments | 2004 |
| Jim White | Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See | Producer, Drums, Engineer | 2004 |
| Bush Taxi Mali | Field Recordings From Mali | Producer, Engineer, Photography | 2004 |
| Broken Hearted Dragonflies | Insects of Southeast Asia | Producer, Recordist, Photography | 2004 |
| Mylab | Mylab | Producer, Composer, Musician, Mixing, Field Recording | 2004 |
| Mount Analog | New Skin | Producer, Composer, Musician, Engineer, Mixer | 2004 |
| Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter | Oh, My Girl | Producer, Engineer, Drums, Mixing | 2004 |
| Eyvind Kang | Virginal Co Ordinates | Engineer, Treatments | 2003 |
| DownPilot | Leaving Not Arriving | Producer, Drums, Engineer, Mixing, Beat Box | 2003 |
| Daniel Carter & Rueben Radding | Luminescence | Recording, Mixing | 2003 |
| John Zorn | Masada Guitars | Engineer | 2003 |
| Petra Haden & Bill Frisell | Self-titled | Recorder, Mixer | 2003 |
| Kelly Joe Phelps | Slingshot Professionals | Engineer, Mixer | 2003 |
| Bill Frisell | The Intercontinentals | Engineer, Mixing | 2003 |
| Wayne Horvitz | Forever | Producer, Engineer, Mixing | 2003 |
| Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter | Reckless Burning | Producer, Engineer, Mixing | 2002 |
| Bill Frisell | The Willies | Engineer, Mixing | 2002 |
| Sarah Siskind | Covered | Producer, Drums, Mixing | 2001 |
| Four Plus One Ensemble | From A Window | Producer, Musician, Mixing, Drum Machines | 2001 |
| Laura Veirs | Triumphs and Travails of Orphan Mae | Prodcuer, Drums, Engineer, Mixing, Field Recording | 2001 |
| Danny Barnes | Things I Done Wrong | Percussion, Engineer, Mixing | 2001 |
| Sanford Arms | Too Loud For the Snowman | Producer, Engineer, Mixing | 2001 |
| Eyvind Kang | The Story of Iceland | Drums, Voices, Recording, Mixing | 2000 |
| Eyvind Kang | Theater of Mineral NADEs | Drums | 1998 |
| Eat the Dream | Gnawa Music From Essaouria, Morocco | Recorded, Produced | 1996 |
| Land of the Loops | Bundle of Joy | Mixing | 1996 |
References
- ↑ "The 10 Best Producers of the Decade (2000-2009)". Paste Magazine. November 8, 2009. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
- ↑ NPR All Songs Considered: Guest DJ Tucker Martine, October 5, 2009
- ↑ http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/archive/b/windowsvista/archive/2008/06/13/windows-vista-sounds-q-a.aspx
- ↑ "Floratone Discography". Discogs. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
External links
- All Music Guide entry for Tucker
- NPR Tucker Martine Guest DJ
- Management Contact
- Feature on Martine in HARP magazine