Mark Beaumont-Thomas and I met Martyn Byrne aka The Big Boss through an online music group in lockdown and I’m pleased to say he has become a good friend through that. Having now followed the progress of 3 Big Boss albums and his collaboration project iWitness ...
Over at Americana UK I’ve already shared some of my favourite music of the year.While topping Allison Russell’s sublime The returner is nearly impossible, there have been highlights elsewhere… Best Albums… Our Man in the Field’s Gold On...
With the passing of Sakamoto and Takahashi recently, and new work from a variety of established artists I’ve been listening to a lot of electronica recently. The question has to be, is there anywhere left to go with this music? The answer is the new album from The Big...
The Big Boss – Beats On My Mind The second single from upcoming album Inner Space. I wasn’t sure how Martin was going to top the last album In Transit, but he has. The twitchy nervous lead line and beat blend with the vocal line which issues its order of “stay in...
When I reviewed the iWitness album ‘The Word’ last year, I talked about Martin Byrne’s music, influenced by Vitalic, Leftfield and industrial electronic sounds. It was clear that his music was evolving from the previous Big Boss album ‘Kiss the Machine’, and now we...
