martin russell is a recording engineer, producer, composer, and musician. he has been a core member of the music group afro celt sound system since the recording of the first album "" in mid-1995 and has twice been nominated for a grammy award. as of 2010 the recorded output of the group has so far been exclusively released by peter gabriel's "real world records". (the next two albums, "" and "" earned the afore-mentioned grammy nominations). the group recorded and released three more albums "seed", "pod" (an album of remixes and re-workings), and "". martin has written film music for several feature films, including "hotel rwanda" and the lebanese film "bosta".