Martin Kennedy
Abstract paintings with heavy textures and deep Australian landscape colours.
Melbourne Australia

I am a Melbourne, Australia based artist and musician. I have been painting a lot longer than I have been playing music and although my main focus in recent years has been on music, I have recently rediscovered the joys of art and painting. Of course the two worlds of music and painting can easily overlap and in my case they are intimately intertwined. I create most of the artwork for my CD covers, whether it be via be graphic art software such as Illustrator or by the more traditional method of drawing and painting.
  
Included in my galleries on this website are various examples of CD cover artwork (available to buy as prints) as well as my most recent series of oil and acrylic paintings.
  
If you are interested in hearing my band All India Radio (very suitable for art viewing!) you can explore that further here:
 
http://www.allindiaradio.com.au/
http://www.myspace.com/allindiaradio
  
Art CV
 
One The Road – solo exhibition mechanics Institute, Sydney Rd Brunswick August 1996
Art Of The Men – Melbourne Fringe Festival & Koori Arts Collective exhibition October 1995
Darebin Contemporary Art Show - Northcote Town Hall Feb 1995
Duality: A World Within A World – Fringe Network, Brunswick St, Fitzroy Sept 1993
Madigans – joint exhibition, Sydney Rd Brunswick 1989
 
Select music CV
 
Sicko - a track in the international DVD release of Michael Moore’s hit new film)
Telstra Child Flight internet campaign music 
The Passionate Apprentice - original score for new SBS TV series 2007/8
Travels With My Nose In France – music for this 2005 Tropfest finalist short film
One Tree Hill - track in season 1 of the US TV series
ADHD: Driven To Distraction  - original score for Foxtel Lifestyle Channel production  *** winner - Best Documentary, 2005 ASTRA Awards ***
Last Port Of Call - original score for ABC TV - Reality Bites series (2004)
Future Shack - original score for ABC TV - Reality Bites series (2004)
Till Human Voices Wake Us - worldwide cinema & DVD trailer music for the movie starring Guy Pearce & Helena Bonham Carter.
Lifestyle Channel – Autism documentary - original score for documentary (2003)
Lifestyle Channel - Dyslexia documentary - original score for documentary (2002)
Sisters Of The Surf - Foxtel / SBS documentary featuring Layne Beachly (2000)  
 
Select CD Discography
 
Not Downing Waving - All India Radio remix of ‘Storm’ 2007
All India Radio - ‘Echo Other’ (2006) US edition on Minty Fresh Records
All India Radio - ‘Echo Other’ (2006) Australian edition
All India Radio - ‘Permanent Evolutions’ (remixes & unreleased tracks)
Don Meers - Remixes for new album through Creative Vibes
Big Spaceship - ‘Dream On’
All India Radio - ‘All India Radio’  *** 2003 ARIA nominee ***
All India Radio - ‘002’ (2002)
All India Radio - ‘The Inevitable’ (2001)
 
Album Reviews
 
Australian Album Of The Year… Melbourne-based All India Radio's self-titled third album is a breathtaking triumph; one of the most exquisite, ethereal, instrumental records ever made in Australia   - The Brag
 
All India Radio's self titled third album is an object of rare porcelain beauty. - Magnet ( USA .)
 
Drawing similarities to Boards of Canada, All India Radio deliver a powerful edge as spectacular ambience takes over leaving only the Australian masterminds who collaborated on this album and your mind to perceive what it may. Echo Other is undeniably one of the most elegantly laid out and ethereal albums of the year. - adapt magazine
 
Lonesome sagebrush guitar meets swirling deep-space technology during the high points of this Australian trio's fourth album, suggesting a futuristic spaghetti western. – Spin Magazine
 
Soothing, Sensual and Sexy? We're totally there! We hestitate to call All India Radio ambient, for there's more to their swooping sound than typical numbing rhythms and dreamy drops. There's a distinct cinematic quality to their melange of electronica and live-band reverberations. It's no surprise to hear, then, that they count the legendary composer Ennio Maricone and Brit-rebel band KLF among their influences. - queerty.com
 
They’re one Sophia Coppola film soundtrack away from being the next big thing on the softer side of electronica. The music is beautiful and organic with enough depth to keep coming back for multiple listening sessions...it’s a delicate and intriguing piece of work - Wonka Vision magazine
 
There is a song on Echo Other, the new album from Australia ’s All India Radio, that sounds like the first day of the end of an ice age. It’s brief, with an overwhelming sense of warmth, like the soundtrack of rebirth. They call it Sunshine Briefly. It’s a fitting title. In fact, most of the songs on Echo Other sound exactly like their labels would suggest and vice versa. The names alone, like Tropic of Unicorn, The Quiet Ambient, Ghost Dirt, and Endless Highway should tip you off right away on what to expect here. In fact, the only thing that may catch you by surprise is how competent A.I.R. is at doing what they do. It’s a prime example that you don’t always have to break the ground that you stand so firmly on top of. - thespacelab.tv
 
If you ever find yourself longing for the era where trip-hop bands were dishing out beat-driven noir, then you may want to check out this Australian trio.....slow, cinematic, trip-hop....ambient textures derived from sources like Neu! and Eno, which gives their music a wide open feeling. - Losing Today
 
Echo Other is a Enya-meets-Boards of Canada in a deserted alley littered with yellow toads kind of album. The kind of chill-out tuneage that makes a lazy Saturday afternoon worth wasting. - perfectporridge.com
 
Melbourne ’s All India Radio have produced an album that is guaranteed to send even the most cynical listener (i.e., me on a bad day) drifting off into blissful reverie… their definitive album...a sophisticated instrumental soundtrack to walking on the moon while sipping cocktails. - Luna Kafe ( Norway )
 
otherwordly guitar and absolutely breathtaking beats …. It’s the kind of music that could make you see beauty in tragedy, like light refracting through breaking glass or the sun appearing behind a collapsing forest. – Rave Magazine
 
5 STARS It's been three years since their last, self-titled, release, but Martin Kennedy and co have another sublimely relaxing album of windswept landscapey music. You can see the clouds from up here. - The Monkey Puzzle
 
FOUR STARS Morricone-style stark, lanky guitar lines set upon aural textures reminiscent at times of electro-minimalists the Boards of Canada...this is tasty music that sets your imagination loose - it's musically provocative yet effortless in its blending of sounds and melodies. - ABC RADIO online
 
Everything sounds so perfect, so luscious, so warm....a palpable feeling of timeless beauty - Inpress Magazine
 
Melbourne instrumental outfit All India Radio allow a sense of stillness in accelerated times. A celestial cinescape. - The Sunday Age
 
An album full of quality, relaxing and beguiling, that is the sound of evening slowly drawing near, the last rays of the sun casting long shadows across the lawn. - terrascope.co.uk
 
Dont you think its lovely to have waking dreams whilst listening to music that inspires colours and shapes? With its surrounding embrace you just know that you have entered their world and yes, its an entrancing place. - Cyclic Defrost
 
It's moody and atmospheric and somehow fires the imagination with sounds with a highly filmic quality (think spaghetti western). This really could take you away and you won't even need to leave your lounge. - australianrules.com.au
 
lush downbeat backing of slow live drums, some truly incandescent and treacherously shifting strings casting an epic, film score-tinged atmosphere worthy of one of Morricones more cosmically-inclined moments around Selena Cross drifting chanteuse vocals. Its truly one of the most show-stopping moments on this disc. Pack your lava lamp. - inthemix.com.au
 
“One of the most elegant and simple instrumental rock albums I’ve ever heard. A heavenly cloud of radiance” - Brainwashed

 

 
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