Coordinates | 29°57′53″N90°4′14″N |
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name | Bob Wiseman |
landscape | yes |
background | solo_singer |
birth place | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
origin | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
instrument | Piano, keyboard, guitar, accordion, vocals |
genre | Rock, country, jazz, folk, improvisational |
occupation | Musician, songwriter, producer, filmmaker, actor |
years active | 1984–present |
associated acts | Blue Rodeo, Hidden Cameras |
website | }} |
Bob Wiseman is a Juno nominated Canadian musician, filmmaker, singer-songwriter, and actor. Wiseman is the former keyboardist for Blue Rodeo.
From 1982 to 1989, he regularly played at open stages in Toronto, and developed his own songwriting and started producing his friends such as Bob Snider and Ron Sexsmith. Wiseman's songs often incorporate avant garde musical elements and explicit political lyrical themes.
His second solo album, Bob Wiseman Sings Wrench Tuttle: In Her Dream, was released in 1988 on Atlantic Records. The album created some notoriety as the first thousand copies were destroyed by Warner Music Canada, due to the song "Rock and Tree" being feared libelous. It was about the murder of Salvador Allende and mentioned Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger and Donald M. Kendall, the president of Pepsi Cola. "Wrench Tuttle", the credited songwriter, was a pseudonym for Wiseman himself. The album yielded the video "We Got Time", a small hit on Much Music, with cameos by iconoclast Mendelson Joe and his young actor friends, Tracy Wright and Don McKellar. The album also featured "Airplane On The Highway" which had an accompanying video by Caroline Azar. In 2009, the album was re-released on the independent label Blocks Recording Club and the songs were performed live by various friends including Ron Sexsmith, Geoff Berner, Owen Pallett, Kyp Harness, The Phonemes, Picastro, Don Kerr, Michael Holt, Maggie MacDonald, UIC, Laura Barrett, Henri Faberge, and Don Christensen.
Wiseman was also a member of The Hidden Cameras. His wife, Magali Meagher, was the original drummer of that band. The two of them can be seen in a 2006 video accompanying Daniel Johnston on his songs "Speeding Motorcycle" and "Beatles". Wiseman was also a member or regular guest of Toronto bands Slutarded, Black Eyes and Dick Duck & the Dorks.
Some of Wiseman's better known songs include "What the Astronaut Noticed and Then Suggested" aka Separated- the theme song for CBC Television series Material World -, "White Dress" - a song about sexual assault, recorded by Serena Ryder, and "Maureen" - a song added, with three others by Wiseman, by David Byrne to his 2010 March playlist
Wiseman has toured with Feist, Final Fantasy, Ron Sexsmith, and Scott Thompson and has been a guest performer with Wilco, The Wallflowers, Eugene Chadbourne, Jimmy Carl Black (of Frank Zappa), Edie Brickell, Michelle Wright, Ashley MacIsaac & Garland Jeffries.
Videos on Youtube of Wiseman songs performed with Feist (You Don't Love Me), Serena Ryder (White Dress) & Ron Sexsmith (All The Trees). Other artists who have covered Bob songs include The Madawaska String Quartet, UIC, Leah Abramson, The Borbon Tabernacle Choir, Michael Holt, Change of Heart, Tom St. Louis and The Blind Venetians.
Wiseman has collaborated theatrically with Scott Thompson of The Kids in the Hall on creating and touring Scottastrophe also with Anand Rajaram on award winning Cowboys and Indians also with Sean Dixon for the Barbara Gowdy story adaptation The White Bone also with The Madawaska String Quartet for whom he has been commissioned to create a long piece to premiere in 2011 and with Maggie MacDonald and Stephanie Markowitz writing the music for "The Rat King".
Since 1999, Wiseman has made super 8 films and videos which he accompanies live on accordion, guitar or piano. He regularly tours and performs with his films in Europe, United States, New Zealand and Canada.
Wiseman is the only live musician on John Oswald's 1988 release Plunderphonics. He was on the board of directors for LIFT, TAIS, The Tranzac & the Blocks Recording Club label in Toronto.
Wiseman's brothers are Ron Wiseman, a Jewish jazz–reggae singer-songwriter, film professor Howie Wiseman and playwright Gabriel Emmanuel. His mother is painter Elaine Wiseman.
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