Martin Engelien

It’s difficult to imagine a more multifarious, well-versed and experienced contemporary bass player than Martin Engelien.

He’s been around for more than 30 years, having covered practically all the bass bases: from touring all over the world, teaching, developing instruments for big-name bass manufacturers, to performing on TV and demoing the latest MARSHALL Bass gear and MUSIC MAN Sterling Basses. Besides platinum and gold records, Martin won countless prizes such as “Golden Europe”, “Band of the Year”, “Song of the Year” et cetera. He produced several successful albums for other musicians, including the most successful German jazz musician, Albert Mangelsdorff. Over the years, Martin has participated in over 150 CD productions, with a total of over 10million CDs sold.

In 2001 Martin Engelien started up his own Studio, the record label “A1Records” and the Flower Town Music publishing company. Since more than 13 years Martin Engelien runs the monthly club tour event “Go Music”. Besides Martin on Bass each time there are other colleagues playing, each of whom belonging to the select group of national and international musical acts.
In April 2008 Martin released his 1st Bass Book for starters “Electric Bass Basics” at Voggenreiter Publishing. This book established itself directly as “New Bass Bible for Beginners”.

The list of musicians with whom Martin Engelien has either worked on live projects or CDs is extremely long. A few names in no particular order:
Michael Landau, Tower of Power Horns, Ian Paice, John Entwistle, Herman Rarebell, Stanley Clarke, Steve Lukather, Carl Carlton, Ricky Lawson, John Miles, Manni von Bohr, Pete York, Jasper van't Hof, Herbert Grönemeyer, Peter Wolf, Bobby Kimball, Jean Jacques Kravetz, Fishbone, Alphonso Johnson, Wolfgang Niedecken, Wolfgang Haffner, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Jane Comerford, Wolfram Huschke, Bob Brozman, Andy Timmons, Jerry Donahue, Steve Grant, Mel Gaynor, Mani Neumann, Marcus Deml, Gilberto Gil, Tony Carey, Bertram Engel, Peter Bursch, Jürgen Zöller, Charly T., Alex Beyrodt, Steve Ferrone, Lou Santiago Jr., Dirk Brand, Thomas Blug, Pete Haycock, David Readman u.v.a.m.