Here’s a record you could proudly file alongside other greats such as Keith Tippett’s Centipede, Soft Machine’s Third, or Carla Bley’s Escalator Over The Hill - Ed Pinsent, SOUND PROJECTOR

Archer presents a shrewdly edited deliberation between rock grooves, improv and jazz.....mulched together not as a tepid fusion, but as an incisively argued whole that is confident enough to let the awkward corners just be.....An enigmatic but engaging commentary on modern living - Philip Clark, WIRE

If Nostradamus' visions were condensed into a collage of soncc textures, In Stereo Gravity would be the result.....an eerie, apocalyptic montage of electronics and spoken fragments.....(its) haunting sound is thought provoking, impact-making and disturbing.....a spirit infested, abandoned, burned-out warehouse. Archer's ability to create vivd, stark imagery through sound alone is what makes this album stand out.....Fragments of text create scenes of broken conversations lost through time.....Daring, bold, apocalyptic and unique - Rachel Clegg, SHEFFIELD TELEGRAPH

A gem of a CD - JAZZYORKSHIRE

Archer is.....a fearlessly eclectic colagist with a painterly attention to detail. .....It makes for a fascinating and satisfying journey that one follws through the artist's idiosybcratic world view.....this is a music of grandeur and scale - Duncan Heining, JAZZWISE

Chaired by electro-acoustic musician (plus) Martin Archer, the Sheffield based Discus Records is a resolutely independent concern whose selective catalogue is imbued with a pioneering and free thinking set of values. One of the label's most recent releases is Martin's double CD 'In Stereo Gravity' which certainly looks from where I'm standing to be some kind of landmark solo statement, as if everything beforehand was in some way a preparation for this. 'In Stereo Gravity' uses various permutations drawn from a large, five-decade rich pool of players plus scatterings of reprocessed input from the great lost folk voice of Anne Briggs and mod jazz bandleader Art Blakey. Within the depths of 'In Stereo Gravity's sixteen tracks that comprise an album that took three years to complete, we can also find contributions from Chris Cutler (drum loops on the east/west hybrid 'Picofarad'), Charlie Collins and Terry Todd who you may and should recall from eighties Sheffield-garde bands Clock DVA and The Box. There's also an all too rare sighting or four from Julie Tippets (nee Driscoll), her rather unusual remit on 'Severed Me', 'A Daredevil in the Forest' and 'Spun Suger Barbed Wire' being to recite fragments of spam email messages, which is surely one of the first positive uses ever to come from the computer blight I've ever encountered.

'Army of Briars' is inspired by the cowled order of Sunn O))) and instead of the expected metallic drone saga, an intense drum barrage and church organtone make their presence felt (and how!). 'Nach Schriesheim' meanwhile is an excellent open road motorik piece where traces of La Dusseldorf and Neu are given a very thorough overhaul, while still with a Germanic theme 'Stockhausen Ascent' gives a tip of the cap to "the master", Karl Heinz. It's sad though to think that this guitar /electronics based tribute to this avant-garde giant is the only one I've encountered. A superbly sequenced chain of events, crammed with invention and mind boggling sound sources. Look for the disarming 'Radio Station at Metroland' sleeve art and dive in! - Steve Pescott - TERRASCOPIC RUMBLES

Martin Archer's double CD "In Stereo Gravity" featuring his trade mark smorgasbord of sounds, is the product of three years recorded labour. Good things come to those who wait, then. As you'd expect from someone steeped in the work of Cage, Stockhausen and free jazz, this is explorative, left field music for those who think putting the words "avant-garde" in that order is just too conventional. Musicians include ex-members of fellow Sheffield band Clock DVA, the peerless Chris Cutler (Henry Cow, Gong) and the wonderful Julie Tippets, who scats and ululates like a woman bereft of senses or else trying to keep up with the backward tapes and discordant time signatures. This is all multi-layered, diverse, hypnotic, stunning. Of course, over two CDs it can be a difficult listen in places but it's such a fine example of its genre however you define it… www.discus-music.co.uk - TERRASCOPE