Marty Willson-Piper

Feb 13 2020

FIRST LIVESTREAM 🎥

Tomorrow, Friday, February 14th, Valentine’s Day 💋, our 14th show of the tour will be livestreamed through our YouTube channel.

Here’s the link.

Streaming Times:

NEW ZEALAND – 15th February, 9:30AM
SYDNEY – 15th February, 7:30AM
ADELAIDE – 15th February, 7:00AM
PERTH – 15th February, 4:30AM
UNITED KINGDOM – 14th February, 8:30PM
CENTRAL EUROPE – 14th February, 21:30
EASTERN TIME – 14th February, 3:30PM
CENTRAL TIME – 14th February, 2:30PM
MOUNTAIN TIME – 14th February, 1:30PM
PACIFIC TIME – 14th February, 12:30PM

These will be the final shows of our European tour:

Düsseldorf – The Tube, 14th February
Königswinter – The House, 15th February
Wuppertal – Kontakthof, 16th February

Thanks for all your support at the shows, through the tour blog and with general encouragement, stay tuned for more show announcements. The blog will move from martyandolivia.com to this website from Tuesday, 18th February.

Rheinlanders, see you at The Tube in Düsseldorf, 9:30PM on Friday!

MWP

Dec 18 2019

TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT

Where better to start the year than on tour in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. There will be 16 gigs from the 16th of January to the 16th February, there will be at least 16 songs in the set and you will have to be at least 16 to get in (although I can’t imagine that being a problem).

Mobile phones are discouraged, as are plastic bags and nuclear weapons. Bring your ears, your concentration and anything you want signed. Music donations to the In Deep Music Archive are encouraged as are pets, kindness, wide-eyed enthusiasm, avocado sandwiches, honey and Celestial Seasonings teas (especially Tension Tamer).

Any questions or requests email me via Olivia at olivia@martywillson-piper.com and we’ll see what we can do.

Looking forward to seeing you there! 🥨

MWP

Sep 22 2019

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

Sep 12 2019

Atlantæum Flood PRE-ORDERS

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

Sep 06 2019

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 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