News

Welcome to the new website, we have lots of announcements to make but the first thing we’d like to announce are US dates that will see us visiting the coasts and Texas with a merry band of minstrels that will include Hannah Moorhead on bass and vocals, Don Piper on guitar and vocals and Olivia Willson-Piper-to-be on violin, cellolin and vocals. Our special guest on all dates will be Edward Rogers, although Austin will be just Olivia and I. Ex Spacehog drummer Jonny Cragg will join us in Seattle and Portland and we hope for other skin beaters and shakers at other shows.

This might also be an opportune moment to announce that Olivia and I will be getting married in Las Vegas tomorrow (on the 22nd December)!

We have a new mailing list and we will be sending out messages as events come to fruition. You can sign up to our mailing list on my new website martywillson-piper.com or via the indeepmusicarchive.net website. If you don’t want these notifications simply unsubscribe at your leisure.

With two new albums on the way through Schoolkids Records in 2018, that is Noctorum 4 with Dare Mason and MOAT 2 with Niko Röhlcke and another surprise release pending, we are looking forward to seeing you out there on the road at the beginning of the year. Also my involvement with Swedish Progressive band Anekdoten continues with dates already announced in Europe in 2018.

The Songwriting & Guitar Guidance sessions will be continuing into 2018 and feel free to contact me (mwpindeepmusicarchive@gmail.com) or Olivia (olivia@martywillson-piper.com) if you are interested in taking part.

They are a great last minute Christmas present!

I haven’t been able to write about music lately with travelling and with recording being a priority. If you miss reading about treasures from the collection – The In Deep Music Archive is in the steady hands of serial blogger Aram Delgado.

Happy Holidays to all and hope to see you next year!

MWP

US 2018 Gigs:

Jan 13 – Steve’s, Jackson, MS (without Edward Rogers) (SOLD OUT!)

Jan 25 – Meet & Greet at Pleasantry Lane Studio, Dallas, TX

Jan 26 – Pleasantry Lane Studio, Dallas, TX (without Edward Rogers) (SOLD OUT!)

Jan 27 – Barracuda, Austin, TX (without Edward Rogers)

Feb 08 – Highline, Seattle, WA

Feb 10 – Jack London Revue, Portland, OR

Feb 11 – Genghis Cohen, Los Angeles, CA (SOLD OUT!)

Feb 12 – Genghis Cohen, Los Angeles, CA (SOLD OUT!)

Feb 13 – Hotel Utah, San Francisco, CA

Feb 17 – Stage On Herr, Harrisburg, PA

Feb 18 – Get Hip Headquarters, Pittsburgh, PA

Feb 20 – World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA

Feb 22 – The Cutting Room, New York, NY

Feb 23 – Colony, Woodstock, NY

The wind howls, the rain slanted, pounds into your face like sharp arrows. The rumbling sounds from the underground labyrinthian VIP Studio and In Deep Music Archive are the only hope for the dark Penzance October days. Dare and Marty, stripped off all comforts, except for the biscuits and the tea and the incense and the cushions and the guitars and the freedom to create, are bedded down in the complex simplicity of the fourth Noctorum album, yet to be named. Ideas spring, guitars chime and the mood is inhabited with serious laughter. We are evolving, we invite you to look inside our process for split seconds to watch it all grow, bud, flower into our latest and most humble offering.

“Friday, 10th November, in 20 days we leave for America and Olivia and I will be taking a break from the Noctorum project, leaving the brew to Dare to stir into a tasty soup. By spring 2018 we hope to have completed two different albums, Noctorum’s fourth and MOAT’s as yet untitled second album. Olivia has been putting together short videos of our process on the project, which not only show parts of the tunes and some of the technical challenges, but also the fun we have working on the recording. I love making music, I’m not sure its quality is determined by your attention to misery over dedication to the art itself. We have concentrated on the Noctorum record for the videos, but Niko, my partner in the MOAT project, has been down to Penzance where we have shaped the beginnings of 12 new songs that we will continue to work on in the new year to spring, also with Dare. Hopefully then we will have some amusing recording session videos for your viewing and listening pleasure and even some cool songs to tantalize you with. In the meantime, I sincerely hope you enjoy these snippets and eventually the albums themselves, presuming we can find the funds to continue to make them, manufacture them and release them next year. For updates, progress and the developments that will take these albums from a few ideas to finished records with artwork and titles, keep paying attention to the FB pages, YouTube, the In Deep Music Archive website and this spot right here. Video stars include – Richard on trumpet, Michele Drees on drums, Eddie John (Stackridge) on drums, Georgia Dulcie on vocals, Duncan Bridgeman (1 Giant Leap) on flute, Olivia on violin, cellolin and vocals, Dare on bits of everything, including taking a noise from string, wood, brass and skin and making it sound important, oh yeah and me. x MWP”