Barrett Martin is a man who has worn many hats over the course of 20 years as a professional musician. As a drummer and percussionist for bands like Screaming Trees, REM, Mad Season, and Tuatara, Barrett became known early on as one of the top drummers of his generation. He then went on to become an album producer, a soundtrack composer, and an ethnomusicologist who has studied and recorded in Africa, Cuba, Brazil, Peru, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East. Born April 14th, 1967 in Olympia, Washington, Barrett began his musical studies at Western Washington University studying jazz and classical theory in the mid 1980's, until moving to Seattle in 1987. Barrett's first group in Seattle, Skin Yard, was an art rock combo that featured legendary producer Jack Endino on guitar. The band recorded for SST Records, the independent label that launched the careers of many well-known alternative bands of the 80’s and 90’s, including Barrett’s next band, the Screaming Trees. In late 1991, Barrett joined the Screaming Trees, a seminal band in the emerging Seattle sound. The Trees made three critically acclaimed albums for Epic/Sony during that decade, maintaining a relentless touring schedule that took them all over the world. Ultimately, this grueling routine would lead to the break up of the band in 1999, at which point the band members decided to pursue different careers. Barrett had already ventured into new musical realms during his tenure in the Trees, and he made numerous other albums including the 1994 classic "Above" with the super group Mad Season, featuring the late Layne Staley and Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready. Barrett also founded the jazz-rock group Tuatara with Peter Buck of REM, making two albums for Epic/Sony in 1997 and 1998, and two more in 2001 and 2003 for Fast Horse Recordings. Tuatara is currently in the studio recording a double album with singer-songwriters from around the world, to be released in the summer of 2007, also on Fast Horse Recordings. Barrett continues to work as a sideman and session musician for other rock and jazz groups, playing on, or producing over 60 albums to date by many well-known artists (see discography below). This included work with artists such as: Victoria Williams and Mark Eitzel, REM and their side project The Minus 5, New York favorites Luna, the French band Air, blues legend CeDell Davis, and even heavy rockers like Stone Temple Pilots and Queens Of The Stone Age. Most recently he has worked with Flamenco legend Ottmar Leibert and Iraqi composer Rahim Alhaj, founding a new group in Santa Fe, New Mexico with those musicians. During the late 90's and up through the present, Barrett has embarked on a series of music expeditions to other countries, to investigate the music of other cultures, particularly those with a strong element in drumming. In January of 1997, Barrett went to Belize where he studied with a drum priest from the Garifuna people, a regional Afro-Caribbean culture. Then in the fall of 1998, Barrett went to Dakar, Senegal where he took lessons in Wolof drumming from local drum masters and members of Les Ballet Senegal, the famous folkloric group. From Senegal, Barrett continued on to Ghana where he took drum lessons from Ashanti drum masters at the University of Legon in the capitol city of Accra. After Ghana came Cuba, and in March of 1999 Barrett was invited to be a member of the diplomacy mission "Music Bridge to Havana", a musical exchange that brought American, European and Cuban musicians together for a series of musical collaborations in Havana. During this trip, Barrett was befriended and tutored by a Santeria drum priest who taught him some of the sacred Bata rhythms of the African Orisas. Between 2000 and 2003, Barrett recorded and toured with famed Brazilian singer-songwriter Nando Reis. Barrett played on three of Nando's albums, and subsequently toured much of Brazil. In complement to his musical studies, Barrett also pursues his own rigorous spiritual practice in the form of Soto Zen. In March of 2000, he received his Lay Ordination from the Detroit Street Zen Center in Los Angeles, a lineage of the Hosinji Monastery in Osaka, Japan. He continues to practice daily. Most recently, Barrett has returned to his academic studies, pursuing a master’s degree in anthropology and music at the University of New Mexico. As part of his fieldwork in the summer of 2004, Barrett worked on a documentary film in the Peruvian Amazon about the Shipibo Shamans of the Upper Ucayali River Basin. The film and companion soundtrack titled “Woven Songs Of The Amazon”, had Barrett serving as the field recordist and ethnomusicologist, along with fellow musician Luis Guerra. The two men built a studio in the Amazon rainforest and recorded about 100 shamanic healing songs, called “Icaros.” This soundtrack album was just released in August 2006 on Fast Horse Recordings in August of 2006. Barrett has also released two solo albums to date, including “The Painted Desert” in 2004 and “Earthspeaker” in 2006. These albums were inspired by his travels and studies of musical cultures around the world. From the jungles and deserts of West Africa, to the red center of Australia, to the rainforests of Central and South America, and finally back to the deserts of the American Southwest; these musical panoramas are recreated within the sonic landscapes of these albums. Barrett is a full voting member of NARAS (the Grammies), is a member of the Society for Ethnomusicology, and has guest-lectured at the University of Washington and the University of New Mexico. He has also been interviewed about his life’s work by organizations such as NPR’s “All Things Considered”, Rolling Stone magazine, and countless magazines, newspapers, and Internet websites. He splits his time between New Mexico, Washington – and the world.

 BARRETT MARTIN FILM CREDITS & DISCOGRAPHY 

FILM SOUNDTRACKS

2006 WOVEN SONGS OF THE AMAZON – Documentary on the Shipibo (Green Spider) 2005 GREEN PEACE – Documentary on Green Peace in the Amazon (Kontent Reel) 2004 AUSANGATE – Documentary on the Quechua Weavers of Peru (Kontent Reel) 2003 THE FOG RAVENS – Documentary on New Mexico artists (Fog Raven Productions) 2001 THE SERIAL KILLER - Comedy short, debuted at 2001 Cannes Film Festival (Indie) 2000 LUSH – Feature film, debuted at 2000 Sundance Film Festival (Lion’s Gate) 1999 BEST MEN – Feature film, released worldwide (MGM) 1998 DECEIVER – Feature film, released worldwide (MGM)

ALBUMS

• Indicates albums produced, co-produced, or A&R

2007 TUATARA – “West Of The Moon” (Fast Horse)* 2007 TUATARA – “East Of The Sun” (Fast Horse)* 2006 SHIPIBO SHAMANS - “Woven Songs Of The Amazon” (Fast Horse)* 2006 BARRETT MARTIN – “Earthspeaker” (Fast Horse)* 2006 RAHIM ALHAJ – “Friendship” (Fast Horse)* 2006 BOLA ABIMBOLA – “Ara Kenge” (Fast Horse)* 2005 JACK ENDINO – “Permanent Fatal Error” (Wondertaker) 2004 ROGER GREENAWAY – “Wayt” (New Zealand) 2004 BARRETT MARTIN – “The Painted Desert” (Fast Horse)* 2003 TUATARA - “The Loading Program” (Fast Horse)* 2003 RAMIRO MUSOTTO – “Sudaka” (Fast Horse)* 2003 MYLENE PIRES – “Mylene” (Fast Horse)* 2003 NANDO REIS - “A Letra A” (Universal) 2003 NERO – “Confession #1” (Ireland)* 2002 CEDELL DAVIS – “When Lightning Struck The Pine” (Fast Horse) 2002 TUATARA – “Cinemathique” (Fast Horse)* 2002 WAYWARD SHAMANS – “Alchemy” (Fast Horse)* 2001 NANDO REIS – “Infernal” (Warner Bros.) 2001 QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE – “Rated R” (Interscope) 2001 THE MINUS 5 – “Let The War Against Music Begin” (Mammoth) 2001 THERAPY? – “Shameless” (Ark 21) 2000 NANDO REIS – “Para Quando O Arco” (Warner Bros.) 2000 THE MINUS 5 – “In Rock” (Book Records) 2000 VICTORIA WILLIAMS – “Water To Drink” (Atlantic) 2000 MARK OLSON – “My Own Jo Ellen” 1999 MARK LANEGAN – “I’ll Take Care Of You” (Sub Pop) 1999 STONE TEMPLE PILOTS – “No. 4” (Atlantic) 1999 VARIOUS ARTISTS – “More Oar” (Birdman) 1998 REM – “Up” (Warner Bros.) 1998 TUATARA – “Trading With The Enemy” (Epic)* 1997 LUNA – “Pup Tent” (Elektra) 1997 THE MINUS 5 – “The Lonesome Death Of Buck McCoy” (Hollywood) 1997 MARK EITZEL – “West” (Warner Bros.) 1997 TUATARA – “Breaking The Ethers” (Epic)* 1997 PROTEIN – “Ever Since I was A Kid” (Hollywood) 1997 VARIOUS ARTISTS – “Flying Traps” (Hollywood)* 1996 MIKE JOHNSON – “Year Of Mondays” (Atlantic) 1996 SCREAMING TREES – “Dust” (Epic) 1995 VARIOUS ARTISTS – “Working Class Hero” (Hollywood)* 1995 SEAWEED – “Spanaway” (Hollywood) 1994 MAD SEASON – “Above” (Columbia)* 1994 MIKE JOHNSON – “Where Am I” (Up) 1993 SKIN YARD – “Inside The Eye” (SST/Cruz)* 1992 SCREAMING TREES – “Sweet Oblivion” (Epic) 1991 SKIN YARD – “1000 Smiling Knuckles” (SST/Cruz)* 1989 THIN MEN – “A Round Hear” (Ensign)*