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Machete

from Machete by Johnathan Martin

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The title Track of this record, its a special song to me, because it will always remind me of my younger brother Aidan Martin. We lived together when he got back from Scotland in 2004, and the flat we shared was a house of guitars, music and more guitars and music. 24\7 we jammed or rehearsed, made up riffs only to be forgotten as the next song we started.

A great friend of ours, Mr Gerard Ziegler and also a collector of music and guitars. He couldn't play these guitars, so he brought them around to our flat for us to jam on, and basically drool over. I'am talking high end, collectors pieces, custom shop stuff. But, also eventually started buying us guitar strings, and helping us get to gigs, or whatever we needed back when we had nothing but time. Broke we were, but happy! Anyhow, this friend 'G', bought us a few guitars and amps too. I'am mentioning Gerard because without him this song wouldn't exist.
He introduced me to Ali Farka Toure, and I in turn, gave it to my brother. Thats how its goes, its what we do, we turn each other on to new music we discover. it's the greatest gift.
We were immediately obsessed with the album 'Talking Timbuktu'! 'Ry Cooder' and 'Ali Farka Toure' collaboration, which was blasting through our flat non stop.
We began to mimic the west African guitarist and became quite good at it very quickly. The main important factor to our music, is that we have our own identity. Even tough we all learn from the greats, you must find your own voice or just forget about it altogether.
So thats what we did with 'African Story' off 'In my blood', and You'll find the haunting repetitive riffs we developed from the great west African, musician from Mali.

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When the sun is shining,
you know its thing on you!
Oh when its raining, the clouds they're reflecting on me.
In light of these thoughts,
I think I'll wish myself away,
Machete in hand,
I cut through the vines that bind.

Want to leave,
this holy land behind me,
Wanna leave this only child,
in the way she found me.
In clouds of dust and smoke I,
try to breathe,
Never wanted this conscience to betray me.
Hear me now...
Hear me now...
Hear me now...

Now the rainbow is faded,
torn, in disrepair
Alive but inside,
the profet is reeling in time.
On the surface its clean,
and soft like a Jesus believed,
at the facist parade ,
I'll see you all disarmed and enslaved...

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from Machete, released December 23, 2019
Written and arranged by J S Martin (InmS) @ SAMRO
Engineered at sounstream studio's by Paul Van De Waal
Mixed and mastered by Lanie Van Der Walt
Vocals and Guitars - Johnathan Martin
Guitars and mandolin and harmonica - Aidan Martin
Bass - Johnathan martin
Drums and percussion - Paul Van De Waal
Slide guitar solo - Aidan Martin

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Johnathan Martin Pretoria, South Africa

Born in 1977 in South Africa, to a musical family, Johnathan Martin started to picture himself as performing musician from the tender age of 10 tears old. Classical guitar, then piano, and finally getting his first Strat copy at 13 years old. Taking music as a subject at school put the cello in his hands, and learnt to really improv when he joined the full time touring band Jack Hammer in '97. ... more

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