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Sep 06 2021

TO WHERE I AM NOW

At last, it’s the week of the Space Summit CD release. It comes out on Friday and if you pre-ordered it, it’s already on the way. For those of you that are not aware, there is a pressing plant crisis and a manufacturing backlog, so the limited blue vinyl version of the album won’t be in your hands till next year, but actually, next year isn’t that far away. You can still pre-order it now. You’ve seen the three videos for the first three songs from the album, I’m Electric, Life This Way, and Queen Elizabeth’s Keys. Please spread the word, I think this is an album that a lot of people would like if they only got to hear it and that’s the problem, so please share it where you can.

PRE-ORDER SPACE SUMMIT’S DEBUT ALBUM (CD or LP) HERE

They are so mad busy at the pool for the new season, that they just keep on telling me to go through to swim and they’ll sort out my membership later. As a regular, they know I’ll always be back. But today they were so busy they didn’t get to put me in the book so when I got to the pool the swimming class had all the lanes taken up. They were friendly though and two of them shared a lane. The only reason I’m telling you this is because after my mile and my other strokes to make it to 72 lengths there was no one in the pool. So, I thought I’ll try and swim the butterfly and take it to 74. I have little idea what I’m doing and if you were watching I must have looked like an old wooden sideboard being dragged through the water by a hippopotamus. But, I made it to one end of the pool and back. When I got back to where I started I was absolutely breathless and stood at the side of the pool gasping for air. I know I was swimming it badly and I was more like an inured moth than a butterfly but it’s so strenuous. It’s an ambition to be able to swim this stroke with some kind of poise, instead of poison.

Shrink-wrapped goodness

I had a chat with my mate Ed Rogers on Skype today. We are organising an interview for WFMU New Jersey/New York radio that I will co-host with him and he will play lots of songs from my projects and other favourites and obscurities from both of us. You can check out and listen to playlists and the shows with very special guests here.

I’ve played guitar on a couple of Ed’s albums and you can check them out here. He turned me on to the new Andy Partridge EP today called My Failed Songwriting Career Volume 1, which I ordered straight away without hearing it. I’m saving it for tomorrow.

Daniel Matti, Schoolkids Records manager with the brand-new Space Summit CD

The sky opened up tonight and let go of the rain like it was in a pre-filled tank. It came down, emptied onto the Earth, turned on its side by a mischievous young child god and then emptied it suddenly stopped, only to do the same thing again an hour later like the child had refilled it and emptied it again sniggering, gazing through the clouds at the people below, watching them run for cover. It’s still warm despite the shower and that’s living in Portugal.

I paid for the boxes to pack the archive today and it was painful, it cost £1,238.66. But it’s really happening. We leave a week on Wednesday for this monumental task of moving the archive, the guitars, the books, and the lava lamps, but if we do actually get it together and we can get it all set up here in Portugal, you are most welcome.

Sesh today with Abby and Nick in Philadelphia, always great because they are both philosophy teachers, hours of mind-zapping entertainment. I was supposed to speak to Noelle in Montreal but they had a massive thunderstorm and the power went out so that was that.

Music today has been two great bands from the late sixties and early seventies that you hear little about these days. Family and Curved Air. I started with the classic Music In A Doll’s House (1968) by Family, their debut album, before moving on to Curved Air’s debut Air Conditioning (1970) and their second album called Second Album (1971) that featured the hit Back Street Luv which reached No.4 in the British charts. Finally playing Family’s second album Family Entertainment (1969). A thought for recently departed Curved Air drummer Florian Pilkington-Miksa who incidentally was replaced by future drummer for The Police, Stewart Copeland, who in 1982 married singer Sonja Kristina. Olivia almost booked a lesson with violinist Darryl Way. Keyboard player/guitarist Francis Monkman went on to form Sky with John Williams.

Music Of The Daze

Written by Marty Willson-Piper · Categorized: Blog

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This is my stolen 1965 Rickenbacker 12-string, serial number EB157. If there's any chance of this guitar coming back to me before I go to meet my maker, then that would be wonderful. Please contact me if you have any information.

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Bye bye, Oz! Okay, so I’d better go pack, we hav Bye bye, Oz! Okay, so I’d better go pack, we have to be up at 5.30 AM. And oh yes by the way, Olivia remembered at 11.41 PM that today was our six years anniversary together, haha 😍

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In autumn 2018 I went to Nashville, Tennessee, to In autumn 2018 I went to Nashville, Tennessee, to work with Salim Nourallah and his band, Richard on keys, Joe on guitars, Jason on bass and drums, and John on drums and bass and in a co-production role with Salim and as a fifth member of his band. After Nashville we retired to Dallas where all but Joe live (he lives in San Antonio) and worked on overdubs, mixing was next…then the pandemic hit. Finally, the album is now mixed and will be released in early 2023 but before that, we have the See You In Marfa EP from those sessions released yesterday on Bandcamp:

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A CD is also available and streaming will be from August 19th. The lead track on the EP is Hold On To The Night, complete with a video featuring an animated yours truly and co-written (a bit) by me: https://youtu.be/GhUk-MDm1VQ

This whimsical video was done by an Australian videographer/musician, Jordan Thompson.

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"Marty knows how to bypass scales and get to the heart of feel and timing. His musical knowledge spans multiple cultures and genres. Perhaps most importantly, Marty is a cool dude. I highly recommend his guitar guidance." (Jed B., MN, USA)

"Ok, so you’re sitting in your home and Marty is across the world but is actually right here teaching you how to play guitar and write songs. He is a delight to talk to and he is your teacher, meaning he wants to see you get something out of his lessons. You know he’s paying attention and wants to steer you in the right direction. I am so grateful and humbled that he offers his time in this manner. This is an amazing opportunity for anyone who admires anything from his enormous body of work. How often do you get to learn from somebody that inspired you in the first place? Amazing." (Ann S., CA, USA)

Missing

This is my stolen 1965 Rickenbacker 12-string, serial number EB157. If there’s any chance of this guitar coming back to me before I go to meet my maker, then that would be wonderful. Please contact me if you have any information.

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