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ATLANTÆUM FLOOD’S DEBUT ALBUM ‘ONE DAY’ OUT NOW

One Day (2019)

Hey All! On this day, Friday 8th November 2019, the Atlantæum Flood instrumental album ‘One Day’ is officially out. 🌕

Pre-orders have been sent out already and the album has been received with great interest as we release a record that for me is the first time I have ever been involved with something purely instrumental. There have been jam albums and improvisations but this is something different. 🌓

So join Steve & Lynne Knott, Olivia & I and Dare Mason on an instrumental journey through the moody changes in the rotation of one day on the planet Earth. If you like Floydy guitars and world rhythms on acoustic guitars, arpeggios, violins and at one point I even play the bouzouki, then this is the record for you. 🌑

Available on VINYL & CD at Schoolkids Records
Listen via SPOTIFY

MWP

SPOOKY HALLOWEEN UPDATE

As I’ve become involved in a lot of different projects in the last few months I thought I should get them all together in one place and describe what they were for spooky Halloween. I’ve just arrived in Stockholm and rehearsals have started and – surprise decision – I’ve decided to play this show in Norway using a black Les Paul for the whole night. I’ll try and get some pics.

🦇👻💀🎃

Click here to see my scary schedule

Noctorum – The Afterdeath EP

 

Guitars & Electronics | Jerome Froese Collaboration

What a pleasure to be in the studio here in Berlin with Jerome Froese, ex Tangerine Dream and son of the legend that is Edgar Froese. Our collaboration in its early stages has taken us from Sudanese snacks to Schöneberg sequencers, spinach böreks to shimmering guitars and from flights of stairs to flights of fancy. Stay tuned for future revelations in 2020. 🎹🎸💻

Jerome Froese and Marty Willson-Piper, Berlin 2019
Jerome Froese and Marty Willson-Piper, Berlin 2019

Atlantæum Flood PRE-ORDERS

One Day (2019)

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 instruments. I like it, so will you. 🌖

xxx MWP

PRE-ORDER HERE

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:

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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 mouth springs open
And throws out the seeds of a song

They grow and flower
And hour after hour
Blessed velvet
You whisper

The world a slave to your look
Your shapely almond tears
Your marzipan skin in a crystal stare
Your chocolate box of fears

The load off my mind
The pointed beating pulse
Stabbing instead my thumping head
This famousness is false

You glow and glint
I blink, you wink
(In) ice polished silk
You whisper