|  Martin
Tielli
Martin's
first release independent of the Rheostatics, with whom he is best known, was for the Circo project released under the name Nick Buzz in 1996. In 2002, Martin released his first 'true' solo album, We Didn't Even Suspect
That He Was the Poppy Salesman. In 2003, Martin released his second album, Operation Infinite Joy. OIJ, as it is know among fans,is also first among the four-album subscription series available from Six Shooter Records only. The second album in the series, Schoenberg Cabarets, was recorded with the re-united Nick Buzz crew and was released in 2004.
Operation
Infinite Joy
2003 Six Shooter
Recorded Rogue Studios and Reaction Studios
Produced by Jon Goldsmith
Operation Infinite Joy was recorded with Operation Infinite Justice (Ford Pier, Greg Smith and Barry Mirochnick), Martin's band created to support the Poppy Salesman tour. OIJ is the only album in Martin's subsription series to be released commercially and is available on-line and in record stores. The subscription series version contains a bonus track.
1.
Beauty On
2. OK by Me
3. The Temperance Society Choir
4. Sergeant Kraulis
5. Andy by the Lake
6. Cold Blooded Old Times
7. Winnipeg
8. Waterstriders
9. Ship of Fire
10. Kathleen
We
Didn't Even Suspect That He Was the Poppy Salesman
2002 Six Shooter Records
Recorded at Catherine North Studios
Produced
by Michael Phillip Wojewoda
Martin's
first true solo album, We Didn't Even Suspect
That He Was the Poppy Salesman, was released
in March 2002 to widespread acclaim from fans
and critics alike. Featuring largely live-from-the
floor recordings, Martin has recorded an acoustic
album of tremendous drama and power.
To
listen to samples of each of the songs on this album, click here.
1. I'll Never Tear You Apart
2. My Sweet Relief
3. Double X
4. Voices from the Wilderness
5. Farmer in the City (Remembering Pasolini)
6. World in a Wall
7. That's How They Do It in Warsaw
8. How Can You Sleep
9. She
Said, "We're on Our Way Down"
10. From the Reel
11. Wetbrain/Your War
Nick
Buzz
(Jon Goldsmith, Hugh Marsh,
Rob Piltch, Martin Tielli)
Schoenberg Cabarets (Tielli subscription series only)
2004 Six Shooter
Recorded Rogue Studios and Reaction Studios
Produced by Jon Goldsmith
1.
Gigerlette
2. Der genugsame Liebhaber (the Modest Lover)
3. Galathear
4. Arie aus dem Speigel von Arcadien (Aria from the Arcadian Mirror)
Circo
1996
Dark Light Music
Recorded at Toronto Digital Sound
Tielli's cover art for this album, a dark meditation on carnival, gives a clue to the character of Circo's music. A true collectible among fans, this album united him with musical idols Jon Goldsmith, Hugh Marsh and Rob Piltch. Goldsmith and Marsh rattled his teenage cage years earlier when they played with Bruce Cockburn, and Rob Piltch was a member of Blood, Sweat and Tears; for the fledgling ‘solo’ artist, no better accompanists could be imagined. Circo was re-released by Six Shooter Records in 2002.
1. Spilling the Wonderful
2. That's What You Get For Having Fun
3. Just Because
4. River
5. Sane, So Sane
6. A Hymn To The Situation
7. Fornica Tango
8. Love Streams
9. Aliens Break A Heart
10. The Italian Singer/Just Because I'm Nick
the Buzz
Rheostatics
Dave Bidini, Dave
Clarke (until 1994), Don
Kerr (1994-2001), Tim Vesely, Martin
Tielli, Michael Philip Wojewoda (2001- present)
Night
of the Shooting Stars
2001
Perimeter Records
Recorded at Chemical Sound
1. These Days Are Good For the
Canadian Conservative Youth Party Alliance
2. Song of the Garden
3. Mumbletypeg
4. P.I.N.
5. Superdifficult
6. Junction Foil Ball
7. We Went West
8. The Fire
9. In It Now
10. Here to There to You
11. The Reward
12. Remain Calm
13. Satan is the Whistler
The
Story of Harmelodia
1999
Perimeter Records
Produced by Michael Phillip Wojewoda
Recorded at the Gas Station Studios
Story by Dave Bidini; Illustrations by Martin
Tielli; Narration by Janet
Morassutti
1. the Harmelodian Anthem
2. Dot and Bug in the street
3. I Fab Thee
4. It's Easy To Be With You
5. Monkeybird
6. the Descent into Popopolis
7. Invisible Stairs
8. Popopolis
9. I Am Drumstein
10. the Music Room
11. Dot Tries the Wingophone
12. Wingophone
13. the Sky Dreamed
14. Loving Arms
15. Father Mourns, Drumstein Schemes
16. the Bee Sky Opus in Magenta
17. Father's Sad Song
18. Home Again
19. Dot and Bug Pop out of the Earth
20. Song of the Garden
The
Nightline Sessions
1997
Drog Recordings
Recorded at the CBC
1. The Pooby Song
2. The Junction Foil Ball
3. Frank
4. Henry's Musical Beard
5. Majorca
6. Ugly Manhattan
7. Trans Jam
8. Alien Boy
9. Baby, I Love You
10. This is Nightlines
11. Stolen Car
12. Don't Say Goodnight
Double
Live
Drog Recordings
Produced by Gary Stokes
Disc One:
1. Saskatchewan
2. Feed Yourself
3. Shaved Head
4. Torque, Torque!
5. Claire
6. Legal Age Life
7. Dead is the Drunkest That You Can Get
8. Bees
9. Dope Fiends & Booze Hounds
10. Song of Flight
11. Self Serve Gas Station
12. Horses
13. Dope Fiends (ending)
14. Record Body Count
Disc Two:
1. A Midwinter's Night Dream
2. The Royal Albert (Joey 2)
3. Introducing Happiness
4. Stolen Car
5. Jesus was Once a Teenager Too
6. Good Canadian
7. Bread, Meat, Peas & Rice
8. Christopher
9. The Ballad of Wendel Clark, Parts 1 & 2
10. Palomar
11. Triangles on the Wall
12. P.R.O.D.
13. Regina
14. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
15. Desert Island Discs
Sweet,
Rich, Beautiful and Mine
7-inch
released in 1997
1. Rich, Beautiful and Mine
(performed by Mrs. Torrence)
2. Sweet, Rich, Beautiful and Mine
(performed by the Rheostatics)
The
Blue Hysteria
1996
Raise a Little Elf Music
Recorded at the Gas Station Studios
1. All the Same Eyes
2. Motorino
3. Something the Committee Thought You Should
Hear
4. Fat
5. To Catch a Thief
6. Bad Time to be Poor
7. Sweet, Rich, Beautiful, Mine
8. Four Little Songs
9. An Offer
10. Never Forget
11. The Idiot
12. Connecting Flights
13. Feed Yourself
14. The "You Are Very Star" Journey
15. A Midwinter's Night Dream
Music
Inspired by the Group of Seven
1995
Drog Recordings
Recorded at the Gas Station by Don Kerr and
Rheostatics
A 40-minute piece honouring the Group of Seven's
75th Anniversary, commissioned by the National
Gallery of Canada. Recorded in 1995 at the Gas
Station Studios by Don Kerr and the Rheostatics.
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1. Fan Letter to Michael Jackson
1. Self Serve Gas
1. Record Body Count
1. Crescent Moon
