Martin Skews Music
Dive inside the myriad musical minds of award-winning musician
Martin Skews
From high-concept pieces of carnivalesque theatricality, to intimate songs
of self-exploration. From theatre commissions to award-winning film scores,
this site is the home of a body of work that spans a nearly 20-year career by an artist who celebrates imagination, heartfelt storytelling and rich world-building.
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So welcome, please scroll ahead and enjoy.
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A few things to note before you do:
You won't find any Skews tunes on streaming services.
You can stream everything here on this site and at soundcloud.com/martinskewsmusic.
If you enjoy any of this work and wish to support the artist directly,
you can download any tracks you want by clicking on tracks in the playlists,
and you can pay whatever you want for them.
Your support goes a long way to helping the production of new work and is greatly appreciated.​
Should you wish to collaborate or commission Martin for any musical work, whether it be original composition, production/mixing or live performance work,
please email:
Songwriter
The self-titled works
Martin has been releasing music under his own name since the age of 15.
This section showcases a core selection of tracks from across
his career as a singer-songwriter.
This body of work is varied in genre and tone, ranging from personal,
introspective songs, to more theatrical, expressionistic pieces.
The Music
The Visuals
The Socials
MASK
A parade towards the precipice, and the music it made.
There is music to come.
Black sackbuts, fat drums.
Flutes aflame with the breath of the beasts.
The choral guffaw, cords raw from their roar
Cawing verses of mirth and disease.
And the screeching of hair,
Crossing wires and air,
Coagulate in cacophonies sweet.
Carousels of cadenzas
Conjure strange influenzas
To stricken them sick with our beat.
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So take you not a taste
Of our harlequinade
And gorge on our egregious feast?
All that is asked is to put on your mask
So the truth can dance free from its leash.
All that is asked is to put on your mask
So the truth can dance free from its leash.
For there is music to come.
The jangling jaws
And the sawtoothy maws
Of the keyboards have much chord to speak,
Crimson ribbons of naughty, distorted great fortes;
All your organ of corti can eat.
And the din that abounds
All around is the sound
of our hearts’ very sinews and meat
For sincerity sounds like the scream of a clown,
And love: a riot on repeat.
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The Music
The Visuals
The Socials
Fairweather Rex
A project more poetic and personal.
Fairweather Rex is the more introverted persona, exploring the inner experience
and personal reflections on life.
The songs in this project are inspired by love, loss, hope, nature and home.
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Martin escaped to an old military lodging by the lighthouse at St Anthony's head in Cornwall
in January of 2025, to finish writing and start producing the first Fairweather Rex album.
That album, The Blue Tenant, is set for release in 2026.
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You can stream and download selected tracks from the upcoming album below.
The Music
The Visuals
Composer
Martin's professional work over the past decade or more has seen him cement himself in the Cornwall theatre and arts scene, collaborating with theatre companies and productions such as Rogue Otherworld, O-Region, The Minack Theatre, Az2B Theatre and the Treylva Collective to create original scores and songs that help tell the stories of Cornwall, its people and its legend.
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His work for film is award-winning, with his score for the short film
STAPLER by filmmaker Connor Raithby winning Best Soundtrack at the
2024 RS Film Festival in Bristol.
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Below is a broad selection of Martin's varied work as a composer.
Film Soundtracks
STAPLER 2024 - Written and Directed by Connor Raithby
Hallucinations 2023 - Written and Directed by Connor Raithby
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TEWEDH TAMM - Cornish language short by Luke Hudson
Theatre
See Queen and Wonder Walks audiobooks by Rogue Otherworld
Written by Ollie Oakenshield and Directed by Angelina Boscarelli
All music, audio production, mixing and mastering by Martin Skews.
From the Horse's Mouth by O-Region
Original writing by various Cornish writers, directed by Simon Harvey.
Musical underscore by Martin Skews.
Grandma on the Moon 2019 - Promo Video for original production
by Az2B Theatre Company.
Directed by Belinda Lazenby. Filmed and edited by Brett Harvey. Original music by Martin Skews.
Producer
Martin is a keen collaborator and enjoys to contribute to the work
of fellow artists. Over the past decade he has worked professionally
as a producer, mixing engineer for music, voiceover and podcasts.
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Should you wish to hire Martin for any of these services, please contact:
The Shrine of Passion - podcast recorded, mixed, mastered and with original music by Martin Skews
Watch this space!
More content coming soon!
Performer
Martin has been performing live since the age of 15 as a solo musician and as a session musician for artists such as The People's String Foundation, Daisy Clark, Stone Roots, The Jonah Hitchens Band, Suzie Mac,
Rosie Vanier, Sam Richardson & The Renegades
and many other Southwest-based acts.
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Should you wish to hire Martin, please contact:
YouTube Channel
Compilation of clips from Martin's live acoustic set.
Solo Live
Session Work
Promotional video for Stone Roots XL
(Keyboards)
The People's String Foundation - Live at the Minack Theatre
(Flute)
Suzie Mac - Studio Session
(Guitar)