Here’s 18 discs of Martyn’s slurred genius, from late ’60s folk whimsy, to the artful songwriting and edifying Echoplex experimentation of the ’70s, to a pointless final four discs of plasticised ’80s guff.
All the canonical albums, including a coherent representation of 1975’s often bastardised free-jazz ambient-blues masterpiece Live At Leeds, are supplemented with superb finds. 1977’s One World, vastly expanded, terraforms trip-hop.
A ’72 live set sees the lone guitarist, augmented by effects pedals, transform from pothead troubadour to swamp delta Stockhausen, belching stardust gumbo, audibly tormented by untrammelled talent.
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