In addition to the four albums Martin produced and/or played on, he'll also be releasing some jazz records produced by others on Fast Horse in 2008. He'll also be releasing an album from the Latvian band, Igli. Igli has apparently done attracted a fair amount of attention throughout Eastern Europe but none of their records have been released in the United States. Fast Horse will release a compilation of the band's past work to try and expose American audiences to their work.
"I started it (Fast Horse) kind of selfishly to put out my own records and then over the last five years I've just had one artist after another; some of them tried the major label thing and others were smart enough to never do it in the first place and they just asked me to put their records out," Martin said. "That's how the label just started to snowball from there, it's just people with a like mind of independence and wanting to express their creativity in a non-corporate format and that's pretty much what the label has become."
All of these Fast Horse records will be available for purchase on CD as well as digitally through the label's web site. In addition to offering both physical and digital distribution of the music, Martin and Fast Horse are also allowing full streaming of every song of every Fast Horse album.
"You can essentially listen to every song and every album on the label from beginning to end for free, then you can decide if you want to buy it or not," he said.
Release dates have not been finalized in all cases, but are expected to go on sale this year.
Note: To hear more of what Martin had to say about his world travels, academic pursuits, direction of the music industry, and his time with Screaming Trees, Mad Season, and the whole Seattle/'90s scene, stream or download the BSCA interview. More articles from that interview will appear in the coming days at Confessions of a Fanboy as well as BC Magazine.
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