wyrd folk, psych-musics & other curios”, including the forthcoming album Field’s End (2020). Bates is the author of five books of “lyrics to songs heard and unheard, and other gathered miscellany”. Discography Solo albumsDissonance/Antagonistic Music (cassette as Migraine Inducers), 1979Letters Written (10" album), 1982The Return of the Quiet, 1987Love Smashed on a Rock, 1989Letters to a Scattered Family, 1990Stars Come Trembling, 1990Port of Stormy Lights (Sordide Sentimental, booklet by J.P. Turmel with CD), 1990Chamber Music 1, 1994Mystery Seas, 1995Chamber Music 2, 1996Imagination Feels Like Poison, 1997Dance of Hours, 2001Your Jewelled Footsteps (solo and collaboration works 1979–2006) (compilation), 2006A Map of the Stars in Summer (lyric book with CD), 2008Unsung, 2012Arriving Fire, 2015Fireworks & Jewels/The Colour of Amber, 2016I Said to Love, 2017 BooksImagination Feels Like Poison, 1997Plague of Years, 2000A Map of the Stars in Summer, 2008Notes on Mythic Language, 2015November: Inky Blue Sky, 2015 Anne Clark & Martyn BatesJust After Sunset – The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1998 Martyn Bates & M.J. HarrisMurder Ballads (Drift), 1994Murder Ballads (Passages), 1997Murder Ballads (Incest Songs), 1998 Twelve Thousand Days (Martyn Bates & Alan Trench)In the Garden of Wild Stars, 2000The Devil in the Grain, 2001At the Landgate, CD-Ep 2005From the Walled Garden, 2006Insect Silence, 2018The Birds Sing as Bells, 2022 Martyn Bates & Troum To a Child Dancing in the Wind, 2006 Martyn Bates & Max Eastley Songs of Transformation, 2007 Sorry For Laughing (Gordon H. Whitlow/Ed Ka-Spel/Martyn Bates) See It Alone, 2020 Remember, You Are An Actor, 2021 as KODAX STROPHES/MARTYN BATES It Doesnt Matter Where It's Solstice When You're In The Room , 2020 Post-War Baby , 2021 References English male singer-songwriters English male musicians British post-punk musicians 1960 births Living people