For a thorough career overview of Martin Archer start with this: 

Doing Things Differently - an interview by Duncan Heining (2013) 

“Archer's aesthetic is an intriguing and transformative one—whatever enters his world comes out changed, if not utterly, then beautifully.” – DUNCAN HEINING

A composer / improviser / producer who is equally at home on stage or in the studio, and whose principle music work is organising the Discus Music label, the imprint for his own various releases, notably by the groups described below, plus those of a wide range of other artists.  His own distinctive saxophone playing is rooted in AACM style free jazz. Through his use of keyboards and electronics, and as a studio producer, he extends this interest into extended song form and leftfield progressive rock music.  

His live projects include the electric Miles era influenced Anthropology Band, the improvising group Hi Res Heart with Charlotte Keeffe, Martin Pyne and Michael Bardon, and electronics duo Inclusion Principle with Herve Perez, which operates in a space between electronics, nu-jazz, contemporary electroacoustic music and free improvisation.  The sprawling studio based band Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere was formed by Archer as an improvising rock group with shades of Terry Riley, Magma, Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, very much in the progressive / krautrock tradition, and noted for its large scale string, horn and vocal arrangements.  Julie Cole, Tim Cole and Keith Jafrate are Archer’s partners in the prog-folk group Army Of Briars.  Archer put together the Das Rad line-up in 2018 with a view to exploring the concept of “motorik thru to abstraction”.

Archer has long running music partnerships with vocalist Julie Tippetts.

“An intense, shapeshifting tour de force, it could well be her best since 1975’s classic Sunset Glow.” – SID SMITH, PROG 

He also directs the 30 strong avant-garde choir Juxtavoices.

“30 full-moon were-Ligetis, and Wicker Man workings wrangled by the Swingle Singers.” - Stewart Lee, SUNDAY TIMES

This eclectic combination of sources and highly individual applications makes Archer a unique inhabitant of the school of English maverick composer / improvisers.  More recently Archer has begun to further develop Discus Music as a platform for the work of other musicians to be heard. 

Some quotes: 

“A fantastic listen: complex, deep, yet elemental.” – FRANCOIS COUTURE 

“Every project Archer touches is immediately plugged into a subterranean lava flow of great British avant practice.” - STEVE HANSON 

“Nobody else out there sounds like this, 'cause nobody else out there thinks this BIG, and combines all these elements so perfectly - experimental electronics, improv jazz, avant-classical choral music, chamber rock, modern minimalism, pulsating krautrock beats, progressive symphonics, ambient drone, and much more.” – AQUARIUS, SAN FRANCISCO  

"Archer's complex, gorgeous music demands a wider audience." - Peter Marsh (BBC music website)

"Martin was a man at one with the performance, engaging with the laptop like a genuine instrument. Elements of his show were challenging, consciousness shifting, peaceful and reassuring, thoroughly confident with his avant-garde originality." - Freenoise

"Archer was fascinated at all the different musics that were coming into view in the early 1970s, from the directions of Miles Davis to the various dark electronic escapades of certain collectives in deepest Germany. He would also be captivated by the sound of witch-season acoustic guitars in the various twilight folk circles. So many different ingredients, you could make anything happen. All these influences served as the inspiration for many of his Discus releases.." - Julian Cope's Head Heritage

He set up an electronic wash of sound before picking up his sopranino sax and playing a spiralling, intricate blast over various booms and disembodied voices. He followed that with the medieval woodiness of the bass recorder....Archer is possibly the only laptop user who gets out of breath by the end of his set, such is his enthusiasm. He finished with a piece of esoteric dance music, climaxing with Archer on his feet, blasting out an amazing squall of gabbling sax to a Chris Cutler drum loop." - Martin Lilleker in Wire 

"With these discs and his other work, Archer has managed to document his unique take on Euro Improv" - Jazz Weekly

"A great achievement, a breakthrough, a quiet gem..... An uncategorisable CD that moves from the echo of one half-recognisable musical language to another; there is always a sense of melody, though often stretches seem apparently abstract; the structures are always focused and seductive" - Chris Cutler, ReR

"Astonishing and profound"- Editorial, Stride

"An intriguing collage of sounds.....quintessentially English" - Duncan Heining, Jazzwise