Bob Wiseman
Encyclopedia
Bob Wiseman is a Juno
winning Canadian musician
, filmmaker, singer-songwriter
, and actor
. Wiseman was an original member of Blue Rodeo.
, Manitoba
. He studied piano at York University. Wiseman joined his first band in 1984 Blue Rodeo
and quit in 1992 following their 5th record.
From 1982 to 1989, he regularly played at open stages in Toronto, and developed his own songwriting and started producing his friends Sam Larkin, Sara Spracklin, Bob Snider
, Kyp Harness 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. They are 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
of The Kids in the Hall
creating and touring Scottastrophe also with Anand Rajaram
on award winning Cowboys and Indians also with Sean Dixon for Barbara Gowdy
's story The White Bone adaptation, also with The Madawaska String Quartet and with Maggie MacDonald
and Stephanie Markowitz writing the music for their play "The Rat King".
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 Bourbon Tabernacle Choir
, Michael Holt
, Change of Heart
, Tom St. Louis and The Blind Venetians.
Wiseman makes super 8
films and videos which he accompanies live on accordion, guitar or piano. He tours/ performs with these films in Europe
, United States
, New Zealand
and Canada
subtitling them when necessary.
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
.
His upcoming record features Mary Margaret O'Hara
, Richard Underhill
, Maylee Todd
, Serena Ryder
, Mark Hundevad, Michael Keith and Michael Holt
. Pitchfork
has never reviewed any of his records, surely a conspiracy.
, Bruce McCulloch
, Friendly Rich
, Katie Crown
, Kyp Harness
, Bourbon Tabernacle Choir
, Eugene Chadbourne
, Bob Snider
, Edie Brickell
, Andrew Cash
, Carmaig de Forest
, Sam Larkin, Anhai
, Maria Kasstan, Levi MacDougall, The Phonemes, UIC (band)
, Basic English, The Lowest of the Low
, Sophie Traub
, Kwesi Immanual, Stacey McLeod, Laska Sawade, Sean Dixon, Random Order, Jeanette Froncz, Christine Cleary and Kira Sheppard.
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.
, Finland
and in Genoa
, Italy
at the Associazione Culturale Disorderdrama.
Juno Award
The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...
winning Canadian musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
, filmmaker, singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
, and actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
. Wiseman was an original member of Blue Rodeo.
Career
Wiseman was raised in WinnipegWinnipeg
Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
, Manitoba
Manitoba
Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...
. He studied piano at York University. Wiseman joined his first band in 1984 Blue Rodeo
Blue Rodeo
Blue Rodeo is a Canadian pop and country rock band, which was formed in 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. They have been signed with Warner Music Group since their debut album Outskirts in March 1987...
and quit in 1992 following their 5th record.
From 1982 to 1989, he regularly played at open stages in Toronto, and developed his own songwriting and started producing his friends Sam Larkin, Sara Spracklin, Bob Snider
Bob Snider
Bob Snider is a singer/songwriter from Toronto via Nova Scotia, Canada.A folk musician, Snider plays almost exclusively songs he has written himself, although notable exception was at the Bear River Reunion, where he played a cover of an old blues tune....
, Kyp Harness and Ron Sexsmith
Ron Sexsmith
Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985...
. 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
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...
. 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
Salvador Allende
Salvador Allende Gossens was a Chilean physician and politician who is generally considered the first democratically elected Marxist to become president of a country in Latin America....
and mentioned Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...
, Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger
Heinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger is a German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and...
and Donald M. Kendall
Donald M. Kendall
Donald Mcintosh Kendall is a former businessman, political adviser. He is a former CEO of Pepsi Cola and served as CEO of PepsiCo from 1971 to 1986....
, 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
Mendelson Joe
Mendelson Joe is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, painter and outspoken political activist and uses his art to express political themes. His most famous painting depicted Prime Minister Brian Mulroney with his face superimposed on a pair of human buttocks...
and his young actor friends, Tracy Wright
Tracy Wright
Tracy Wright was a Canadian actress who was known for her stage and film performances, as well as her presence in Canada's avant-garde for over 20 years...
and Don McKellar
Don McKellar
-Personal life:McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario to a lawyer father and teacher mother. He attended Glenview Senior Public School, Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and later studied English at the University of Toronto's Victoria College...
. The album also featured "Airplane On The Highway" which had an accompanying video by Caroline Azar
Caroline Azar
Caroline Azar is a Canadian director, actor, and playwright of Lebanese Sephardic origin. She was the lead singer, keyboardist and co-lyricist/composer of the band Fifth Column.This experimental all-women punk band began in the mid 1980s in Toronto, Ontario...
. In 2009, the album was re-released on the independent label Blocks Recording Club
Blocks Recording Club
Blocks Recording Club is a Canadian co-operative of musicians, which serves as both a collaborative artist community and a record label for its member artists.The label's name may also be cited graphically as □□□□□□ rather than the word "Blocks"...
and the songs were performed live by various friends including Ron Sexsmith
Ron Sexsmith
Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985...
, Geoff Berner
Geoff Berner
Geoff Berner is a Canadian singer-songwriter and accordion player from Vancouver, British Columbia.Due to his insightful humor, politically inflammatory compositions and showmanship, Berner has gained a cult following over the years, especially in Canada and Norway, where he recorded his first...
, Owen Pallett
Owen Pallett
Michael James Owen Pallett is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist from Toronto, Ontario. He won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds....
, Kyp Harness
Kyp Harness
Kyp Harness is a Canadian social activist and folk singer, known for the poetry of his lyrics.-Biography:Harness was born in Sarnia, Ontario in 1964...
, The Phonemes, Picastro, Don Kerr
Don Kerr
Don Kerr is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist and record producer.He was a member of Rheostatics from 1995 to May 2001. He plays in Ron Sexsmith's band, and sometimes with The Kelele Brothers. He and Sexsmith released an album together, Destination Unknown, in 2005...
, Michael Holt, Maggie MacDonald
Maggie MacDonald
Maggie MacDonald is a writer, playwright and musician who lives in Toronto, Ontario.-Early life and education:MacDonald grew up in Cornwall, Ontario, where she became active in the local independent rock music scene. She put on shows and creating a fanzine called Saucy, which gained attention...
, UIC, Laura Barrett
Laura Barrett
Laura Barrett is a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter, best known for incorporating the kalimba into her music. In addition to her solo work, Barrett has also performed as a member of The Hidden Cameras, Henri Fabergé and the Adorables, Woodhands and Sheezer....
, Henri Faberge, and Don Christensen.
Wiseman was also a member of The Hidden Cameras
The Hidden Cameras
The Hidden Cameras are a Canadian indie pop band. Fronted by singer-songwriter Joel Gibb, the band consists of a varying roster of musicians who play what Gibb once described as "gay church folk music"...
. His wife, Magali Meagher, was the original drummer. They are in a 2006 video accompanying Daniel Johnston
Daniel Johnston
Daniel Dale Johnston is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and artist. Johnston was the subject of the 2006 documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston. He currently lives in Waller, Texas....
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
CBC Television
CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...
series Material World
Material World (TV series)
Material World was a Canadian television sitcom, which aired on CBC Television from 1990 to 1993. In its first season, the show was a conventional sitcom, shot on videotape with a laugh track, but in subsequent seasons the show adopted a comedy-drama format.The show starred Laura Bruneau as Kitty,...
-, "White Dress" - a song about sexual assault, recorded by Serena Ryder
Serena Ryder
Serena Ryder is a Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter raised in Millbrook, Ontario.Ranging musically between folk, roots, country, and adult contemporary music, Ryder possesses a five-octave range...
, and "Maureen" - a song added, with three others by Wiseman, by David Byrne
David Byrne
David Byrne may refer to:*David Byrne , musician and former Talking Heads frontman**David Byrne , his eponymous album*David Byrne , Irish footballer*David Byrne , English footballer...
to his 2010 March playlist
Touring and theatre
In 2009 Wiseman, created a play about his experiences with lawyers and the music industry entitled Actionable, a power-point presentation utilizing super 8, video and live accompaniment on accordion and guitar which he mounted in 2010 at the Uno Festival in Victoria as well as the Fringe Festival circuits. It is now being made into a film by Jeff Rogers and Andrew MacDonald. Wiseman has collaborated theatrically with Scott ThompsonScott Thompson
Scott Thompson is a Canadian television actor and comedian, best known for his time as a member of the comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.-Personal life:...
of The Kids in the Hall
The Kids in the Hall
The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson. Their eponymous television show ran from 1988 to 1994 on CBC in Canada, and 1989 to 1995 on CBS and HBO in the United States...
creating and touring Scottastrophe also with Anand Rajaram
Anand Rajaram
Anand Rajaram is a Canadian actor, writer and director.Anand Rajaram was born in New Delhi, India, and has a bachelor's degree in drama and theatre arts from the University of Waterloo...
on award winning Cowboys and Indians also with Sean Dixon for Barbara Gowdy
Barbara Gowdy
Barbara Gowdy, CM is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Born in Windsor, Ontario, she is the long-time partner of poet Christopher Dewdney and resides in Toronto.-Literary career:...
's story The White Bone adaptation, also with The Madawaska String Quartet and with Maggie MacDonald
Maggie MacDonald
Maggie MacDonald is a writer, playwright and musician who lives in Toronto, Ontario.-Early life and education:MacDonald grew up in Cornwall, Ontario, where she became active in the local independent rock music scene. She put on shows and creating a fanzine called Saucy, which gained attention...
and Stephanie Markowitz writing the music for their play "The Rat King".
Wiseman has toured with Feist, Final Fantasy
Owen Pallett
Michael James Owen Pallett is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist from Toronto, Ontario. He won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds....
, Ron Sexsmith
Ron Sexsmith
Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985...
, and Scott Thompson
Scott Thompson
Scott Thompson is a Canadian television actor and comedian, best known for his time as a member of the comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.-Personal life:...
and has been a guest performer with Wilco
Wilco
Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure. Wilco's lineup has changed frequently, with only singer Jeff Tweedy and bassist John...
, The Wallflowers
The Wallflowers
The Wallflowers is a rock band from Los Angeles, California, fronted by Jakob Dylan. Formed in 1989 and originally known as The Apples, the ensemble has gone through numerous personnel changes with Dylan the only constant....
, Eugene Chadbourne
Eugene Chadbourne
Eugene Chadbourne is an American improvisor, guitarist and banjoist. Highly eclectic and unconventional, Chadbourne's most formative influence is free jazz. He has also been a reviewer for Allmusic and a contributor to Maximum RocknRoll.Chadbourne started out playing rock and roll guitar, but...
, Jimmy Carl Black
Jimmy Carl Black
Jimmy Carl Black , born James Inkanish, Jr., was a drummer and vocalist for The Mothers of Invention.-Career: 1960s-1990s:Born in El Paso, Texas, Black was of Cheyenne heritage...
(of Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...
), Edie Brickell
Edie Brickell
Edie Arlisa Brickell is an American singer-songwriter best known for 1988's Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, the debut album by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, which went #4 on the US Albums Chart.-Life and career:...
, Michelle Wright
Michelle Wright
Michelle Wright is a Canadian country music artist. She is one of the country's most widely recognized and awarded female country singers of the 1990s, winning the Canadian Country Music Association's Fans' Choice Award twice...
, Ashley MacIsaac
Ashley MacIsaac
Ashley Dwayne MacIsaac is a Canadian professional fiddler from Cape Breton Island.His album Hi™ How Are You Today?, featuring the hit single "Sleepy Maggie", with vocals in Scottish Gaelic by Mary Jane Lamond was released in 1995...
& Garland Jeffries.
Videos on Youtube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
of Wiseman songs performed with Feist (You Don't Love Me), Serena Ryder
Serena Ryder
Serena Ryder is a Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter raised in Millbrook, Ontario.Ranging musically between folk, roots, country, and adult contemporary music, Ryder possesses a five-octave range...
(White Dress) & Ron Sexsmith
Ron Sexsmith
Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985...
(All The Trees). Other artists who have covered Bob songs include The Madawaska String Quartet, UIC, Leah Abramson, The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir
Bourbon Tabernacle Choir
The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir were a Canadian alternative rock band that formed in 1985 in Toronto, Ontario. Their R&B-flavoured rock made them a mainstay on Canadian campus radio in the early 1990s, but the band never quite broke through to the mainstream....
, Michael Holt
Michael Holt
Michael Holt may refer to:*Michael Holt *Michael Holt *Michael Holt , English snooker player*Michael Holt...
, Change of Heart
Change of Heart
- Film :* Change of Heart , a 1934 film starring Janet Gaynor- Music :* Change of Heart , a Canadian alternative rock band* A Change of Heart , 1987 album by David Sanborn...
, Tom St. Louis and The Blind Venetians.
Wiseman makes super 8
Super 8 mm film
Super 8 mm film is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the older "Double" or "Regular" 8 mm home movie format....
films and videos which he accompanies live on accordion, guitar or piano. He tours/ performs with these films in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
and Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
subtitling them when necessary.
Wiseman is the only live musician on John Oswald
John Oswald (composer)
John Oswald is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, media artist and dancer. His best known project is Plunderphonics, the practice of making new music out of previously existing recordings .-Philosophy:Oswald coined the term "plunderphonics" to describe his craft in a paper called which he...
's 1988 release Plunderphonics
Plunderphonics
Plunderphonics is a term coined by composer John Oswald in 1985 in his essay Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative. It has since been applied to any music made by taking one or more existing audio recordings and altering them in some way to make a new composition...
. He was on the board of directors for LIFT
London International Festival of Theatre
The London International Festival of Theatre is a London, UK, arts festival which was co-founded by Rose Fenton and Lucy Neal. It has been presenting since 1981. In 2003, they passed the leadership of the festival to Angharad Wynne-Jones. In 2008 Angharad stepped down...
, TAIS
Tais
Tais cloth is a form of traditional weaving created by the women of East Timor. An essential part of the nation's cultural heritage, tais weavings are used for ceremonial adornment, home decor, and personal apparel. The Catholic Church of East Timor has also adopted the use of tais during its...
, The Tranzac & the Blocks Recording Club
Blocks Recording Club
Blocks Recording Club is a Canadian co-operative of musicians, which serves as both a collaborative artist community and a record label for its member artists.The label's name may also be cited graphically as □□□□□□ rather than the word "Blocks"...
label in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
.
His upcoming record features Mary Margaret O'Hara
Mary Margaret O'Hara
Mary Margaret O'Hara is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actress, who has been hailed as one of the greatest cult heroines in rock music despite having released very few of her own recordings. She is best known for the critically acclaimed album Miss America, released in 1988.-Early stages:O'Hara...
, Richard Underhill
Richard Underhill
Richard Underhill is a Canadian jazz saxophonist. A founding member of the jazz fusion group The Shuffle Demons, he has toured Europe and Canada to critical acclaim for over 27 years. Underhill won a 2003 Juno Award for his jazz solo debut Tales from the Blue Lounge, and was nominated for the Prix...
, Maylee Todd
Maylee Todd
Maylee Todd is a Canadian independent musician based in Toronto, Ontario. She released her first solo album, Choose Your Own Adventure, on the Do Right Music label in June, 2010. Todd’s band, Pegwee Power, includes Andrew Scott Eric Woolston and Chris Kettlewell...
, Serena Ryder
Serena Ryder
Serena Ryder is a Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter raised in Millbrook, Ontario.Ranging musically between folk, roots, country, and adult contemporary music, Ryder possesses a five-octave range...
, Mark Hundevad, Michael Keith and Michael Holt
Michael Holt
Michael Holt may refer to:*Michael Holt *Michael Holt *Michael Holt , English snooker player*Michael Holt...
. Pitchfork
Pitchfork
A pitchfork is an agricultural tool with a long handle and long, thin, widely separated pointed tines used to lift and pitch loose material, such as hay, leaves, grapes, dung or other agricultural materials. Pitchforks typically have two or three tines...
has never reviewed any of his records, surely a conspiracy.
Production
Wiseman produced recordings for Ron SexsmithRon Sexsmith
Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985...
, Bruce McCulloch
Bruce McCulloch
Bruce Ian McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, comedian, and film director. McCulloch is best known for his work as a member of The Kids in the Hall, a popular Canadian comedy troupe, and as a writer for Saturday Night Live. McCulloch has also appeared on series such as Twitch City and Gilmore...
, Friendly Rich
Friendly Rich
Friendly Rich, born Richard Marsella, is a Canadian avant-garde composer/musician from Brampton, Ontario. His music has been featured on CBC and The Tom Green Show....
, Katie Crown
Katie Crown
Katie Crown is a Canadian actress hailing from Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She made her first film appearance in the film Uranium as the doctor Joe Blow. In 2004, she won the Tim Sim's Encouragement award for her comedy.-Filmography:- External links :*...
, Kyp Harness
Kyp Harness
Kyp Harness is a Canadian social activist and folk singer, known for the poetry of his lyrics.-Biography:Harness was born in Sarnia, Ontario in 1964...
, Bourbon Tabernacle Choir
Bourbon Tabernacle Choir
The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir were a Canadian alternative rock band that formed in 1985 in Toronto, Ontario. Their R&B-flavoured rock made them a mainstay on Canadian campus radio in the early 1990s, but the band never quite broke through to the mainstream....
, Eugene Chadbourne
Eugene Chadbourne
Eugene Chadbourne is an American improvisor, guitarist and banjoist. Highly eclectic and unconventional, Chadbourne's most formative influence is free jazz. He has also been a reviewer for Allmusic and a contributor to Maximum RocknRoll.Chadbourne started out playing rock and roll guitar, but...
, Bob Snider
Bob Snider
Bob Snider is a singer/songwriter from Toronto via Nova Scotia, Canada.A folk musician, Snider plays almost exclusively songs he has written himself, although notable exception was at the Bear River Reunion, where he played a cover of an old blues tune....
, Edie Brickell
Edie Brickell
Edie Arlisa Brickell is an American singer-songwriter best known for 1988's Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, the debut album by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, which went #4 on the US Albums Chart.-Life and career:...
, Andrew Cash
Andrew Cash
Andrew Cash is a Canadian singer-songwriter and a Member of Parliament for the Toronto-area Davenport electoral district. He grew up in Toronto, where he befriended future MP, Charlie Angus, and along with Angus founded the Toronto punk band L'Étranger. In the late 1990s, he also became a...
, Carmaig de Forest
Carmaig de Forest
Carmaig de Forest is a singer-songwriter, mainly on the ukulele, but also the guitar, originating from Los Angeles, California. Since starting his career as a ukulele singer-songwriter, he has mostly stayed in the creative musical underground of California and Baltimore, at one time touring with...
, Sam Larkin, Anhai
Anhai
Anhai is a town in southern Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It is located in the far southern suburbs of Quanzhou. and is separated by Weitou Bay from Kinmen, which is controlled by the Republic of China on Taiwan. Administratively Anhai is part of Jinjiang City...
, Maria Kasstan, Levi MacDougall, The Phonemes, UIC (band)
UIC (band)
U.I.C., which was first an acronym for Unemployment Insurance Commission but was later changed to Up in Canada were a punk and garage rock band from Exeter, Ontario, formed in June 1982 by guitar player Fred "Slack" Robinson, singer John Lindenfield, drummer Murray "Houndog" Heywood,bassman Mike...
, Basic English, The Lowest of the Low
The Lowest of the Low
The Lowest of the Low is a Canadian alternative rock group formed in 1991 from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They were one of the most influential bands on the Canadian alternative music scene in the early 1990s, garnering widespread critical acclaim and radio play...
, Sophie Traub
Sophie Traub
Sophie Traub is a Canadian actress. Her roles include Lucy, in the short film, Pink , June alongside co-star Johnny Knoxville in Daltry Calhoun , Young Silvia in The Interpreter and Lori alongside co-star Russell Crowe in Tenderness .She attended the Etobicoke School of the Arts in Toronto for...
, Kwesi Immanual, Stacey McLeod, Laska Sawade, Sean Dixon, Random Order, Jeanette Froncz, Christine Cleary and Kira Sheppard.
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.
Solo discography
- Wet Water (1984)
- In Her Dream: Bob Wiseman Sings Wrench Tuttle (1989)
- Hits of the Sixties and Seventies (1990)
- Presented by Lake Michigan Soda (1991)
- City of Wood (1993)
- Beware of Bob (1994)
- Accidentally Acquired Beliefs (1995)
- More Work Songs from the Planet of the Apes (1997)
- It's True (2004)
- Theme and Variations (2006)
- The Legend (2008)
- In Her Dream (2009) - 20th anniversary edition made available on vinyl and through the free music archive (http://freemusicarchive.org/) along with previously removed tracks from 1989
- Punching Bag Etiquette (2011)
Film and videography
A retrospective of his films and videos were shown in 2010 both in KuopioKuopio
Kuopio is a city and a municipality located in the region of Northern Savonia, Finland. A population of makes it the ninth biggest city in the country. The city has a total area of , of which is water and half forest...
, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
and in Genoa
Genoa
Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
at the Associazione Culturale Disorderdrama.
- Alexander and the Hydro Pole (1999)
- All Dressed Up (2001)
- Bhopal (driftnet plan) (2003)
- My Cousin Dave (2003)
- Uranium (2004)
- Drum Sounds (2005)
- Bob And Choice (2006)
- Found Poetry (2006)
- 100 Instruments (2007)
- Dead Inside (2007)
- Who Am I (2008)
- Ten Cent Job (2009)
- Response of a Lakota Woman to FBI Intimidation (2009)
- Disappearing Trick (2009)
- Hand Language (2010)
- You Don't Love Me (2010)
- Three Men (2011)
- Two (2011)