Discography

SOLO

LIVE SOLO

SINGLES

 

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OTHER PROJECTS
(In alphabetical order)

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HÅKAN AHLSTRÖM

1998: Willson-Piper produces seven tracks on the album
Elvis, Halleluja and Hurrah for Håkan Ahlström,
as well as playing on five of them.

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ALL ABOUT EVE

Willson-Piper joins English band All About Eve in 1991 where he remains for ten years, recording two studio albums – Touched By Jesus (1991) and Ultraviolet (1992) as well as one electric live album Live And Electric At The Union Chapel (2001) and two acoustic live albums Fairy Light Nights 1 (2000) and Fairy Light Nights 2 (2001).

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ANEKDOTEN

2015: Willson-Piper guests with Swedish Progressive Rock band Anekdoten, appears on the title track of their album Until All The Ghosts Are Gone, joins the band as a full-time member and tours Armenia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Norway, Spain, and Sweden throughout the following years. Listen to Until All The Ghosts Are Gone here:

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ATLANTÆUM FLOOD

Willson-Piper features on Atlantæum Flood’s album One Day (2019).

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BELL JAR

Willson-Piper co-produces the single Blood Red Roses
for the band Bell Jar (1987) – [Official Video]

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ANN CARLBERGER

Willson-Piper plays on the Black In Sunshine single (1988) and writes six songs on the Hidden Treasures album (1990) for Swedish singer Ann Carlberger.

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CINERAMA

Willson-Piper works with David Gedge’s Cinerama on their first album,
Va Va Voom (1998), and plays on seven tracks.

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BRADLEY COLE

Willson-Piper contributes electric and acoustic guitars
to Bradley Cole’s album In Our Time.

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ROB DICKINSON

Willson-Piper contributes the guitar solo to Catherine Wheel singer
Rob Dickinson’s single Oceans from Fresh Wine For The Horses (2005).

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THE FAIR ISLES

Marty plays 12-string guitar and percussion
on The Fair Isles’ Willow Song (2016).

JAMES GRIFFIN & THE SUBTERRANEANS

Willson-Piper appears on the single (Just like) Surf City
by James Griffin and the Subterraneans. The song also appears
on the Immigrant Tango EP (1985).

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THE GRONKS

Willson-Piper contributes guitar solos to The Gronks’
Touch The Sun off their 2008 album Cats & Dogs.

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MARTE HEGGELUND

Willson-Piper records the House of Love song Beatles And The Stones
with Norwegian singer Marte Heggelund for her album Treason (2008). Listen here:

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THE INFIDELS

1994: Willson-Piper co-writes The Sensual Hour and Sticks And Stones
with Raoul Graf for Australian band The Infidels.

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AIMEE MANN

With Jules Shear and Aimee Mann he co-writes the song Could’ve Been Anyone
which appears on Mann’s first solo album Whatever (1993). Listen here:

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MICE

1996/2001: Willson-Piper co-writes the song Battersea for All About Eve singer
Julianne Regan’s side project Mice, as well as appearing on the tracks
Miss World and A Dark Place.

MOAT

Willson-Piper joins forces with multi-instrumentalist Niko Röhlcke of Swedish band Weeping Willows to form MOAT in 2012. Their self-titled debut album was released in 2013. Their second album Poison Stream was released in 2021.

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MODERNA MÄN

Willson-Piper produces Swedish band
Moderna Män’s album, Entré (2000).

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NOCTORUM

Willson-Piper forms Noctorum, a studio project with long-time friend and top producer Dare Mason, in 2002. Four albums are released – Sparks Lane (2003), Offer The Light (2006), Honey Mink Forever (2011), and The Afterlife (2019).

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SALIM NOURALLAH

Marty co-produces and plays on Salim Nourallah’s 2022 EP
See You in Marfa. He co-writes the song Hold On To The Night.

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LINDA PERRY

Willson-Piper co-writes the song Knock Me Out on 4 Non Blondes singer Linda Perry’s 1996 solo album In Flight. The song also appears on The Crow: City Of Angels soundtrack and is credited to Perry/Willson-Piper and Jefferson Airplane legend Grace Slick.

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EDWARD ROGERS

Willson-Piper features on the tracks Who Knew the World Would End and All Your Kingdom on Edward Roger’s album Sunday Fables (2004) and again on the follow up You Haven’t Been Where I’ve Been (2008) on the tracks Graveyard Voices and What Happened To Manfred What Happened To Jane. He also plays guitar on the Duncan Brown version of Alfred Bell and bass on Wounded Conversation on Edward Rogers’ album TV Generation (2017), co-writing the track Listen To Me. – [TV Generation Review]

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MARTIN RÖSSEL

1988/1989: Willson-Piper works with Swedish musician Martin Rössel in Stockholm and plays guitar on My Eyes and Paradiset, as well as co-writing Spegel (“Mirror”), originally written in English as Just A Reflection and Kiss The Moon (1989). Together as Marty and Martin the pair write around twenty songs that remain unreleased to this day.

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THE SAINTS

Willson-Piper joins Australian Punk legends The Saints in 2004, relocating to Amsterdam and playing on the album Nothing Is Straight In My House (2005). He co-writes the song Passing Strange with Chris Bailey and plays over sixty shows throughout Europe and America.
– [Album Info]

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SCRATCH

Willson-Piper plays lead guitar on Scratch‘s 1996 song We Got Fooled Again.
The album was recorded at the In Deep Studios Stockholm. Listen here:

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SEEING STARS

Seeing Stars was intended to be All About Eve’s fifth studio album. In early 1993, lead singer Julianne Regan left the band and All About Eve disbanded. The remaining members of the group, including Willson-Piper on guitars and – on this record – lead vocals, continued their work on the album. It was released four years later on the Swedish Border Music label as a limited pressing. In 1999, following the reformation of All About Eve, renewed interest in the band saw a re-release of the album in a limited pressing of 500 copies. Nearly all of them were sold at All About Eve gigs during their Fairy Light Nights period. – [Album Credits]

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CHARLIE SEXTON

1989: Charlie Sexton records Willson-Piper’s song I Can’t Cry (later released on
Willson-Piper’s album Spirit Level) on his second, self-titled album. Listen here:

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JULES SHEAR

1989: Jules Shear’s album The Third Party is being recorded in Stockholm,
sole acoustic guitar by Willson-Piper, vocals by Shear.

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BRIX SMITH

Brix Smith releases her Happy Unbirthday EP on Strangelove in 1997. The EP is a collaboration with Willson-Piper, who also plays on two of the songs. In 2007 Smith releases her solo LP Neurotica as a digital download – written, performed and recorded in collaboration with Willson-Piper and Dare Mason. In 2022, Brix Smith releases Lost Angeles as Brix Smith & Marty Willson-Piper.

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SWEET GUM TREE

When French band Sweet Gum Tree were coming to the end of recording their first album The Snakes You Charm & The Wolves You Tame, Willson-Piper happened to be in France visiting band leader Arno Sojo. Arno invited him to play bass on one of the new songs, Bird Of Passage, a duet with Isobel Campbell. This led to him joining Arno and the band on a series of live dates in England and France as the bass player when the album was released in 2014.

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URBAN FOLK COLLECTIVE (UFC)

Willson-Piper co-writes the song Motorcycle with Australian band
Urban Folk Collective for their album Black Rabbit (2003). Listen here:

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TOM VERLAINE

1990: Jay Dee Daugherty and Marty Willson-Piper play on tracks on Tom Verlaine’s album The Wonder, but are both uncredited. Marty appears on Stalingrad and might be on Shimmer. When Marty went into the studio with Tom Verlaine, he already knew Stalingrad as Verlaine was playing it on tour. The other tracks on the album were just backing tracks, unfinished, no vocals or melody. As he’s not credited he’s not positive which songs he features on. Listen to Stalingrad here:

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THE VOLARES

1998: Willson-Piper plays lead guitar on Open Book, a track off The Volares’ album
The Night We Taught Ourselves To Sing. The Volares are Bucks Burnett,
Paul Averitt & Dare Mason. Listen here:

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WHITE ROSE TRANSMISSION

Willson-Piper performs on the tracks Martha’s Harbour and Circle on the
White Rose Transmission album Bewitched And Bewildered (2006).

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TRIBUTES

2001 – Willson-Piper records Thirteen from 1 Record (1972) for the Big Star tribute album LunaSea – A Tribute To Big Star. 

2005 – Willson-Piper records Fly from Bryter Layter (1970) for the Nick Drake tribute album Jeremy Flies. 

2006 – Willson-Piper records Everything Means Nothing To Me from Figure 8 (2000) for the Elliott Smith tribute album Remote Memory. 

2006 – Noctorum contribute a cover version of Buffalo Springfield’s song Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing, written by Neil Young in 1966, to the 2006 tribute album Five Way Street.

2012 – Willson-Piper is asked to be part of a tribute album to early eighties dark Indie guitar pioneers The Sound. The album fell through, but the song, I Can’t Escape Myself, was still recorded. Both I Can’t Escape Myself and Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing have since been released as part of The Afterdeath EP (2019) by Noctorum. All other songs are available on Bandcamp.