Martin's career spanned 40 years both in New Zealand
and overseas. He released five albums under his
own name and played on countless others recording projects.
28th February 1949 - 21st May 2011
Martin Winch - photo taken 1997 (Copyright retained by
website owner P Berry)
VIDEO PLAYLIST OF 12 VIDEOS
Navigate by clicking on lower edge of video.
CD'S
AVAILABLE
"Music
for Coffee Lovers" - released
26th November 2007
This is the 'Best
Of' Espresso Guitar One and Two.
Click linked CD cover art
above to view tracklist, which has an additional song. It features guitarist Martin
Winch with members of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
This CD is available
internationally as part of the "Together Collection" - one
of Oprah Winfrey's favourite Christmas Gifts and featured on her
show: www.togethercollection.com
Martin
Winch's 2004 CD release is entitled Guitar
Song.
Ambient, acoustic and electric guitar
melodies. "This mostly very gentle album, grows on you until it becomes essential
listening."
A very hard to find CD in the shops.
This CD consists of mostly original tunes and was
released July 14th, 2004, licensed through Sony Music.
This is a
predominantly nylon guitar album with a few electric tracks also included. This
is a gentle and relaxing album which is nevertheless strong on melody.
Here is a clip from the Good Morning Show of
"Happily Ever After":
"With this recording I
have deliberately steered away from the usual concepts of a "Guitar
Album", hence the title "Guitar Song". In fact I think
of it as simply a guitar just playing melody, with some improvising here and
there. From a creative point of view I don't know where my melodies
come from, but usually I start with a simple idea on the guitar and develop
it from there. I think some of these tunes are the best that I have
written . . . I hope you grow to like them and enjoy the relaxed mood of
this album." - Martin Winch
"It surprised me to learn that
many of the pieces were original because they have that comfortable
recognition factor that sits well among the few carefully chosen covers.
This all-instrumental album builds on the Bert Weedon tradition of smooth
guitar solos over lush backing, another great dinner music recording on the
heels of his 'Espresso Guitar' albums".
Martin's page on
- where high quality tracks from earlier albums are available exclusively.
(Please click badge above to go directly to Martin's page there).
Martin taught Jazz Guitar at Auckland
University for five years, as well as pop and ensemble guidance for students
taking Bmus degrees.
ARCHIVE:
February 2008
Latest release from
New York based label Bohemian Productions - is a Tribute to Led
Zeppelin, featuring an acoustic version of "Kashmir" by Martin Winch.
Released February 2008 - click cover to visit the USA website.
All available on Itunes
internationally:
NEWS June
2007
Martin has a track "Stay With
Me" which also appeared on "Guitar
Song" on this new compilation being released in the USA their
Spring 2007
Tracks from these albums and also
"Espresso Guitar" are now available at Itunes online stores.
Martin also recorded guitar tracks during
April and May 2007 for the very latest J D Blackfoot CD "I
Hate to Say Goodbye - this CD was recorded in Canada with
Martin's tracks added via the internet.
Martin has also been playing on some Kog
Transmission artists' albums including Chong Nee.
March
2006
Martin Winch performed music from his some of his albums "Sahara", "Espresso Guitar"
and "Guitar Song" on April 19th
2006 at the NZ Guitar Association workshop. More details on their
website here: GANZ
There will be future workshops held
around NZ, if interested in attending please contact here
Martin has recently played guitar tracks
for Yulia's second album, released April/May 2006 through SonyBMG NZ. He also played on two tracks for
Kog Transmission artist Chong Nee.
January 2005
Martin features in an article in the
December/January NZ Musician Magazine.
(Click link
to go direct to article written by fellow guitarist Mark Bell)
Martin Winch was a free-lance producer and
produced many albums - most recently two recorded
at Stebbings Studio, Evan
Silva (link is to NZ Musician review) and American folk artist J
D Blackfoot.
He composed for commercials,
documentaries and AV productions.
Links to news, biographical, media and discography
information below:
