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Feb 13 2020

FIRST LIVESTREAM 🎥

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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

Written by Marty Willson-Piper · Categorized: News · Tagged: Düsseldorf, Livestream, Marty Willson-Piper, Olivia Willson-Piper, The Tube

Dec 18 2019

TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT

Marty and Olivia Willson-Piper Winter Tour 2020

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

Written by Marty Willson-Piper · Categorized: News · Tagged: Acoustic Winter Tour 2020, Marty Willson-Piper, Olivia Willson-Piper

Sep 12 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

Written by Marty Willson-Piper · Categorized: News · Tagged: Atlantaeum Flood, Dare Mason, Lynne Knott, Marty Willson-Piper, Olivia Willson-Piper, One Day, Schoolkids Records, Steve Knott

Jul 02 2019

JULY UPDATES

Hey All,

We finally made it out of the studio after three months working on three different projects in beautiful Penzance, Cornwall:

1) “One Day” – the instrumental album by Atlantæum Flood​, which will be released on Schoolkids Records in November.

2) “Poison Stream” – the second MOAT album. It’s currently in my Swedish/German partner Niko Röhlcke’s hands, as he completes overdubs, including strings, horns and piano in Stockholm with a projected release in 2020 also on Schoolkids Records.

3) I added some final guitar touches with Noctorum​ partner Dare Mason’s help to Salim Nourallah​’s new album “A Nuclear Winter Feels Warm”, that I produced in Nashville and Dallas last year – it will be out in 2020 on Palo Santo Records​.

More details of all three projects coming soon via our newsletter including me singing backing vocals on the new Diesel Park West​ album “Let It Melt” (appropriate with the heat this week) and playing with Swedish Progressive legends Anekdoten​ in November in Norway. Plus there’s one more digital EP coming that relates to the PledgeMusic situation with some songs you haven’t heard related to “The Afterlife” album and a couple of extra cool covers one of which recently appeared on the Bandcamp rarities selection.

The other one has never been released. Standby for details.

In the meantime, here in Germany, Olivia and I are rehearsing for her local area summer festival in the small town of Bad Honnef next to the Rhine that will have us playing four shows in odd locations, one in a flower shop, one in a cafe, one in a courtyard and one on the street! Details in the banner. Variety is the spice of life.

After all this we are off to Europe’s biggest Progressive Rock festival, hosted by Olivia the last four years, where we will see the latest incarnation of Tangerine Dream (unfortunately without the great Edgar Froese), Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets (unfortunately without Syd Barrett) with Nick playing a whole lot of songs from Piper At The Gates Of Dawn to Meddle (can’t wait) and a resurrected Steve Hillage looking back at his great guitar orientated cosmic albums with the new Gong as his backing band (unfortunately without Daevid Allen, should they have been playing alone). Nostalgia is so now! It seems that key missing members don’t stop the enthusiasm for the music, perhaps especially when they have left the earth. Also on the bill are Liverpool’s Anathema, IQ, Steven Wilson collaborator Tim Bowness and French band Lazuli amongst others.

If we don’t see you in Germany in July we will be back for the Acoustic Festival Düsseldorf​ on September 7th after a spell in August at the In Deep Music Archive​, curating the collection for posterity.

You can sign up to our mailing list in the sidebar.

Have a great summer in the North and a great winter in the South.

Love from Marty and Olivia

Written by Marty Willson-Piper · Categorized: News · Tagged: Atlantaeum Flood, Marty Willson-Piper, MOAT, Olivia Willson-Piper, One Day, Poison Stream, Salim Nourallah

May 03 2019

May News

We are in Cornwall as May arrives and another large-numbered birthday looms (May 7th). We are working on the instrumental Atlantium album’s release and considering the financing for the second MOAT album’s recording (all songs written). In the wake of the ongoing PledgeMusic scenario and the attempts to recover and honour the outstanding monies owed to all the artists and the music that the pledgers contributed to, we are left patiently wondering what the outcome will be as we hope for a sign that this can be resolved positively so we can move on.

Although the MOAT album wouldn’t be released until next year, at some point we have to decide on a crowdfunding platform but recording has to commence so at the end of a campaign, it’s ready to go. These days records are often recorded over longer periods as you try to raise money, try to match up schedules with your collaborators and try to survive in a world where the price of two coffees, a muffin and a croissant would buy you an artist’s latest CD but the value of one seems to seriously outweigh the value of the other. As Mark and the Chameleons said, Strange Times.

Also trying to figure out how Olivia and I can play more shows in the world as we enjoy the synergy of violin and 12 string and the reinterpretation of songs from all the albums that I have been involved in. There is of course the album version of us that Olivia and I need to make together – old songs, new songs and songs yet unrealized.

One wonders if time itself needs to stand still in order to complete all these projects, plus, there’s more collaborations on the horizon that I will share with you as they become real.

In the meantime another amazing review came through, this time for the RSD release of Hanging Out In Heaven.

There are still some copies available at Schoolkids Records online store – if you’re quick.

Marty Willson-Piper Hanging Out In Heaven 2019

Written by Marty Willson-Piper · Categorized: News · Tagged: Atlantium, Hanging Out In Heaven, Marty Willson-Piper, MOAT, Olivia Willson-Piper, PledgeMusic

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