British musician
Martin Ley
Son of Derek "Eggy" Ley following in his father's footsteps playing traditional jazz on trombone. British musician and performer on keyboards and jazz tenor trombone; synthesiser and computer music programmer; and audio engineer who worked at Decca Records and CTS Studios, London. Programmed and performed for various artists on various synthesizers and computer music instruments, including the CMI Fairlight II and CMI Fairlight III, Synclavier 9600, PPG Waveterm B, PPG Wave 2.3, E-mu Systems Emulator II and the Greengate DS:4.
Electronic Music
He started in electronic music in 1979 with a weekend course sponsored by Yamaha run by the late Mike Beecher from EMR. He bought his first synthesizer (Micro Moog) just before Christmas in 1979. In the 80’s he composed and performed 5 albums of electronic music under the name "Alpha Contact" while also being a band member of two 80s synth pop bands "Twilight Passion" and "Picnic at the Whitehouse". In the 90’s and early 2000’s he composed and performed electronic music under the name “Syonix” and continues to do so under that name.
Jazz
Martin started playing trombone in brass bands and orchestras and achieved grade 8 RSM. Martin began sitting in on jazz gigs playing just a few numbers which led to getting booked for entire gigs. Then he joined the Downhome Jazz band recording 5 albums on the Viaphon Record Label.
