M.J. Harris & Martyn Bates- Murder Ballads (Incest Songs)- (1998)

Here is the third instalment of Harris and Bates' hauntingly beautiful trilogy. Included is a bonus track taken from the boxed CD set.

M.J. Harris & Martyn Bates - Murder Ballads (Passages) (1997)

Here, as promised, is the second installation of the Murder Ballads trilogy. Passages ,released in 1997 features another four chilling tales of cruelty set against lulling waves of dark ambience.
Part three will follow soon.

Harris. Bates.

M.J. Harris & Martyn Bates - Murder Ballads (Drift) (1994)

There is no silence – there never has been any silence … Mick Harris.
Mick Harris started out in the 1980s as a drummer with pioneering grindcore band Napalm Death.Since the mid-1990s, Harris has worked primarily in electronic and ambient music,his main projects being Scorn and Lull.
Martyn Bates formed eclectic experimental duo Eyeless in Gaza in 1980.
Both men have worked extensively in a range of musical genres.
Murder Ballads (Drift) is a marriage of isolationist ambience with the murder ballad form. The LP comprises long, (fourteen minutes plus) desolate and beautiful pieces. A second volume Passages followed in 1996, with a third volume Incest Songs released in June 1998, completing the work. The trilogy was later released as a box set (if the response to this is good, i.e., one download, I’ll post the others in due course).
These are haunting pieces, on which Martyn Bates sings tenderly against Harris’ backdrop of mesmeric drones.