Discography

No Need To Be Lonesome 2004

Born in Saarbr¸cken/ Germany 1972, Martin Siewert is living and working in Vienna for a few years now. Besides his improv and composing activity in both acoustic and/or electronic contexts his work includes pieces for theatre, film and dance as well as various remix and soundinstallation commissions.

Since 1998 Siewert's special focus is on abstracting/ deconstructing the electric guitar and expanding its sonic possibilities by means of mostly dated analog technology. His current collaborations include Trapist (with Martin Brandlmayr and Joe Williamson), EFZEG (Boris Hauf, Burkard Stangl, Dieb13, Billy Roisz, Martin Siewert) and a variety of appearances together with artists like Werner Dafeldecker, Christian Fennesz, Pure, Franz Hautzinger, Taku Sugimoto, Jim O'Rourke, Kevin Drumm, Wayne Horvitz, Tony Buck, Didi Bruckmayr, Helge Hinteregger,....

However, Mosz is proud to present Martin Siewert's first solo record, which is not only his first solo recording, but also what we would call another side of Martin Siewert regarding his music: In contrast to his work to date, "No Need To Be Lonesome" is very melodic, rhythmic and somehow poppy. Basically generated in the studio with an obscure selection of analogue synthesizers, electronical equipement and guitars, the focus of this album is more on the beauty of song-like structures than on abstraction itself. This might be confusing for the ones who know Siewert's discography, but simply shows an open-minded artist