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“I record whatever I’m feeling at the moment. I’m limited by my lack of musical skill, and also fickle, so even if I wanted to I wouldn’t be able to work within a particular genre.” Doing things straight is not something I’m capable of. I can’t help but include darkness in the periphery. I can’t help but make them sometimes, but I tend to end up subverting them. They’re different processes, but one feeds my interest in the other. “I love noise, as well as things that might be more ‘abstract’, and also enjoy trying to make songs. “As for what it sounds like, I can’t really say, I’m in too deep … it’s just what naturally occurs whenever I’m hovering over the 8 track.” “It’s intuitively conceived, inward-looking, crude sounds home-recorded by someone who still struggles to tune a guitar”, he replies. I ask Martin how he’d describe his current music. In 2009 I began practicing for shows, inspired by seeing Russian Tsarlag and Irene Moon, who are both very focused performers who are impressively good at transforming rooms to suit their specific reality, and around that same time I made my first album of not-just-noise songs, a 30 minute long cassette called Savage Weekend.”
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Others might be acapella with occasional keyboard stabs. Sets were widely inconsistent, depending on my mood that day. “I began doing solo shows as Secret Boyfriend in 2005 – it started as a joke, an exploration of jarring awkwardness. I began performing noise sets with friends, very exploratory and questioning and half-baked, but very fun at the time and good learning experiences, with the occasional successes and humiliations.” I started making friends for the first time through musical interests, and going to underground-type shows, which encouraged me to drop out of school and try to have a life. In 2003 I got bored of trying to make songs and had access to the music of more ‘out-there’ artists through a college radio station with a deep library, and began learning about all kinds of music. I remember a moment of extreme high frequencies causing my jaw to drop. “It my first exposure to stuff like that”, Martin continues, “and I loved it so much. I went to see them play when I was 15, and a Japanese harsh noise artist named Solmania opened up for them.” I was inspired by bands like Sonic Youth, who were the weirdest band I could find out about in the small town I grew up in.
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I was fairly prolific – I think I recorded a few hundred songs by the time I was out of high school.
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“After a year or so I started acquiring more conventional instruments like an acoustic guitar my older brother begged for but never learned to play, and a four track, and began teaching myself how to use them. “I started recording songs in 1995, using a tape recorder, found percussion and voice”, Martin explains to me when I ask about his background. Despite Martin’s noise background, This Is Always Where You’ve Lived is an album of remarkably tender moments, and the record’s first 10 seconds – a blast of white noise cancelled out by the wilting lead melody of ‘Summer Wheels’, is a microcosm for its unpredictable but rarely jarring nature. The recording alias of North Carolina musician Ryan Martin, Secret Boyfriend was started as a project in 2005, mostly existing through live shows, split vinyl releases and cassettes. Despite (relatively) high profile releases from acts like Tropic of Cancer, the most spellbinding album Blackest Ever Black housed in 2013 came from a name that will be new to most, Secret Boyfriend.