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Martin Bisi: Forty-Five Years Of Sonic Murder

by Lawrence Peryer
September 5, 2026

This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on producer and engineer Martin Bisi.Bisi has run BC Studio out of the Gowanus section of Brooklyn since 1981, recording Sonic Youth, Swans, Herbie Hancock's “Rockit," and countless others.We discussed his new album, Dancing On The Power Lines, his ongoing community activism, the changing landscape of New York's music scene, and so much more. It's a good one. ...

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Martin Bisi: Sirens Of The Apocalypse

by John Dworkin
February 26, 2009

Experimental indie artist Martin Bisi's Sirens Of The Apocalypse, including extensive artwork and an embedded video, is akin to a pop/punk reflection of Baz Luhrmann's 2001 film, Moulin Rouge. It's kitschy, self-serious, goofy, theatrically carnivalesque, and generally in-your-face. And like Luhrmann's film, it will likely elicit polarized opinions. Some will be so wildly annoyed they'll stop listening halfway through, while others will exclaim “brilliant!"

While Sirens is Bisi's sixth effort as a solo artist, his main gig is as a ...