Hey all from Berlin where I am working on a project with…well, let’s leave that for another day. Today’s news is that the Atlantæum Flood album ‘One Day’ is now available for pre-order on vinyl and CD on the Schoolkids Records website. It’s the first time I have been involved in a purely instrumental album that wasn’t a jam session. Its moody soundscapes and evocative atmospheres will have you dreaming within a dream and relaxing into a revolutionary reverie of sad melodic guitars, dynamic violins, vivacious acoustics and trembling ethnic […]
SUNFLOWER SESSIONS: You Whisper
Whilst strolling with my 12 string Seagull in the late summer sunflower fields above the Rhine in Germany (as you do), Olivia filmed me playing an impromptu performance of “You Whisper” (from Art Attack, 1988), incidentally the most requested song of mine to learn by my sessioneers in the Songwriting & Guitar Guidance sessions: martywillson-piper.com/songwriting-guitar-guidance Thunder opens its throat It lets out the roar of rain Soaked I clench my overcoat And come up to see you again Your smoothly sculptured neck The trapped curving tongue Your cage of […]
A Philosophical Musing About Artistic Pursuit In A Commercial Universe
It seemed like such a great idea and for a while it was, but at some point the pigs started walking on their hind legs. Using Animal Farm as a metaphor for the collapse of PledgeMusic might not be a perfect way to explain what happened for countless reasons, notwithstanding the perfect allegory that the book already is, but there are parallels. That is, if you unfussily consider the farm to be the big bad music biz and the musicians to be the exploited animals. And as many execs might […]
THE AFTERDEATH EP
It’s 104°F as I write this, that’s 40°C which for many people in the world might seem normal except that we are in the Rheinland in Germany where temperatures like this are unprecedented and records are being broken across the continent. We are about to leave for an equally scorching England where in the month of August Dare and I will start mixing some MOAT tracks from the second album ‘Poison Stream’ for a 2020 release and think about writing sessions for a future Noctorum album which might appear anywhere […]
NEW YORK MUSIC DAILY – THE AFTERLIFE REVIEW
“Summer, Germany, then it’s gone” – four more days here before returning to England for August and Noctorum writing sessions as well as an imminent digital EP release of unreleased tracks from The Afterlife and two covers, plus the sad truth about PledgeMusic – all will be revealed very soon. In the meantime, we were just sent this amazing review of The Afterlife. Ciao for now Marty
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