Sunyata Records & Books

04/09/2025

OK folks, we are now taking orders for the Drink The Sea double CD signed by all 5 band members (Peter Buck, Duke Garwood, Alain Johannes, Barrett Martin, and Lisette Garcia). We're only signing the CDs now, because the vinyl LPs are going straight into the record stores, unless you bring them to one of our shows (tour dates to be announced soon). The CD package has both of our debut albums I & II on 2 CDs, with 22 songs total. It's a nifty little gatefold CD package, easy for us to mail to you anywhere in the world. Orders are being taken here on Barrett's website below. Thank you!

https://barrettmartin.com/store/

24/07/2025

International sales are now available for "The Greatest Band That Ever Wasn't." Because of the cost of international shipping, we’re doing special pricing that comes with bonus books and CDs. I have signed copies of my best-selling Screaming Trees memoir, “The Greatest Band That Ever Wasn’t,” which comes with a bonus book and album download, “Stillpoint” (about meditations on Nature), and my best-selling CD, “Transcendence.” Additionally, I have first edition copies of my first two books, “The Singing Earth,” (which helped launch my VEVO TV series), as well as “The Way Of The Zen Cowboy,” (about growing up in the Pacific Northwest around cowboys and WWII veterans). And if you want the whole catalog of 4 books with multiple album downloads and CDs, we have a bundle price for that. The link below has all the packages and pricing, and it’s also in the bio. Sure, you can buy all this stuff from Amazon, but when you buy from our indie publishing house, Sunyata Books, you help us grow and sign other writers. So thank you for supporting independent publishing around the world! Barrett

Listen and Buy

02/06/2025

Peter Buck talks with Vice Magazine and Jake Uitti about the two debut albums from our new band, Drink The Sea. Both albums come out in September and October, with various singles being released through out the summer.

R.E.M.'s Peter Buck talks new supergroup Drink the Sea, band chemistry, and collaborative relationships in music.

24/05/2025

The first single from my new band, Drink The Sea, featuring Peter Buck, Duke Garwood, Alain Johannes, Barrett Martin, Lisette Garcia, and David Catching.

https://open.spotify.com/album/5TCLsrZ6e2jbvfU2bGK43x?si=RN4vnEyLREqh-xpdiIqH6A

Drink The Sea · single · 2025 · 1 songs

26/04/2025

Hey folks, I’m happy to announce that episode #4 of our Singing Earth series is out now. You can watch it on your smart TV on the VEVO network or in the link below.

For this episode, director Tad Fettig and I went to Iceland to record the incredible singing and storytelling of Eurovision finalists “Systur” and singer-songwriter Daniel Hjalmtysson. We were also joined by British singer-songwriter Duke Garwood, and former Nirvana and Soundgarden member (and US Army Green Beret) Jason Everman. We had such a great time traveling across the Icelandic landscape while recording with these incredibly talented artists. It really is the most cinematically and musically enchanting episode we’ve made so far so I hope you enjoy it!

Love to all, Barrett

Barrett travels to Iceland with British singer-songwriter, Duke Garwood, and former Nirvana and Soundgarden guitarist, Jason Everman. There they play with a ...

04/04/2025

New Silverlites EP out now on all digital platforms.

Album · 2025 · 6 Songs

21/03/2025

The history of American music is Black music, specially music of the Mississippi Delta. It emerged in the late 1800s and every form of popular American music can trace its roots back to there: Blues, Jazz, Rock & Roll, Country, Blue Grass, Rhythm & Blues, Soul, Hip Hop, and every other sub genre you can imagine. What’s remarkable about this unique history is that this music was made by African American men and women, many of whom were the children of slaves. They developed their musical art under the weight of extreme racial prejudice and political and economic oppression, yet they produced the foundation for American music as we know it today. This 3rd episode of my Singing Earth music series was directed by Tad Fettig, and it is the story of one of those original blues singers named Cedell Davis. He was born in 1926, and I had the great honor of recording 3 albums with him between 2001 and 2015. This episode contains archival footage from our recording sessions in 2015, when I brought Cedell to Seattle to record with my best musical friends: Duff McKagan, Eva Walker, Peter Buck, Ayron Jones, Mike McCready, Greg & Zakk Binns, Annie Jantzer, Jack Endino, Scott McCaughey, Skerik, Dave Carter, and Evan Flory-Barnes. It was also the last recording session I ever did with my Screaming Trees bandmate, Van Conner.

All of us musicians have a career because of the Bluesmen and Blueswomen of the American South. This is real history and real soul, and I promise, this episode will crack your heart wide open.
Love to all, Barrett Martin

Barrett produces an album for the first generation blues singer, Cedell Davis. During the studio sessions, legendary rockers stop by and up and coming musici...

28/02/2025

Hey folks, it’s interesting how Brazil is in the news lately, with a hit movie, “I’m Still Here," up for an Academy Award, and now the second episode from our Singing Earth music series. “Brazil And The Art Of Cannibalismo” (which is the way Brazilians devour and reinvent music) was directed by Tad Fettig and features me and Peter Buck of R.E.M. writing and recording songs in Brazil with superstar singer-songwriter, Nando Reis as well as the extremely talented singer, Silvia Machete .machete In between these recording sessions, we also get to interview the legendary singer, songwriter, and statesman, Gilberto Gil Mr. Gil explains to us how Brazil was facing its own dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s, and they used music, film, and art to push back with the most powerful form of resistance - Joy. It was called “Tropicalia” and this is a first-person commentary by the man who invented the movement. You can watch this new episode at SingingEarthVEVO on your big screen TV, or on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQzBiHEHA7g
Other artists featured in this episode include: .reis13