Martin Archer

Martin Archer (born 9 March 1957) is an English jazz saxophonist and electronic musician.

Career Archer entered the British improvisational jazz scene at age 15. His first working band was Bass Tone Trap, with which he recorded an album in the early 1980s. His usual recording method is to record jazz musicians as they improvise on acoustic instruments, and then reconstruct the results electronically. Since 2019 he has written, performed and recorded 5 albums with the avant-prog band Das Rad.

Collaborations Archer collaborated with electronic musician Chris Bywater is the duo Transient v Resident, which released albums in 1997 and 2001. Archer collaborates periodically with bluegrass/jazz guitarist John Jasnoch under the name Ask. He co-leads the 30-member improvisational singing group Juxtavoices, which has been described as an "antichoir", and periodically performs with the Murmurists. Archer also collaborated with Julie Tippetts on the albums Ghosts of Gold and Tales of Finin.