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Robert Neil "Bob" Wiseman is a film score composer, filmmaker, political themed singer-songwriter, and actor.〔 Wiseman discovered or produced many artists including former Canadian member of parliament Andrew Cash, Ron Sexsmith, The Lowest of the Low, and Bruce McCulloch of Kids in the Hall. He is a founding member of Blue Rodeo with whom he won 5 Juno Awards.〔〔 ==Career== From 1982 to 1989, he regularly played at open stages in Toronto, developing his songwriting and then started producing his friends Bob Snider, Kyp Harness, Ron Sexsmith, Sahara Spracklin and Sam Larkin. He joined Blue Rodeo in 1984 and quit in 1992. His 13 solo albums include guest contributions by Daniel Lanois, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Eugene Chadbourne, Edie Brickell, Ron Sexsmith, Jane Siberry, Basia Bulat and Serena Ryder. Wiseman's songs often incorporate avant garde musical elements and explicit political lyrical themes. In 2009 a 20th anniversary edition of in Her Dream was released by the Blocks Recording Club and the songs were performed live by various friends including Ron Sexsmith, Geoff Berner, Owen Pallett, Kyp Harness, The Phonemes, Picastro, Michael Holt, Maggie MacDonald, UIC, Henri Faberge, and Don Christensen. In 2006 Wiseman and his wife, Magali Meagher accompanied Daniel Johnston on his songs "Speeding Motorcycle" and "Beatles". The videos of it are streamable on YouTube. Wiseman was also a member or regular guest of Toronto bands Slutarded, Black Eyes, The Hidden Cameras and Dick Duck & the Dorks. Some of his better known songs include "White Dress" – a song about sexual assault, recorded by Serena Ryder, "What the Astronaut Noticed and Then Suggested" which was the theme song for the CBC Television series ''Material World'', and "Maureen" – a song added by David Byrne to his 2010 March playlist. * (1988) ''Bob Wiseman Sings Wrench Tuttle: In Her Dream'', released on Atlantic Records.〔 The album created some notoriety when the first thousand copies were destroyed by Warner Music due to the song "Rock and Tree" which was 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 lyricist, was a pseudonym for Wiseman himself. (Wiseman claimed that he set music to words by Tuttle, a poet who would send him lyrics in the mail.) ''Bob Wiseman Sings Wrench Tuttle: In Her Dream'' was included in the Canadian music critics top 100 albums of all time 〔(Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet – Chartattack's Top 100 Canadian Albums of All Time )〕 The album yielded the video "We Got Time", with cameos by iconoclast Mendelson Joe and friends, Tracy Wright (for whom Wiseman wrote the 2013 song mothface@yahoo.ca, Don McKellar, Leslie Spit Treeo and Mary Margaret O'Hara. The album also featured "Airplane on the Highway" which had an accompanying video by Caroline Azar and animator Lisa Bujoin. * (1990)''Hits of the 60s and the 70s'', a self released recording of piano improvisations which contained no hits from the 60s or70s. * (1991) ''Presented by Lake Michigan Soda'', released on Warner Music Canada – was considered by some incredibly musical and by others unlistenable.〔.http://www.amazon.ca/presented-Lake-Michigan-Soda-Wiseman/dp/B0008G2CQ6〕 Guests included Edie Brickell, Jane Siberry and Eugene Chadbourne with whom he recorded Chopin's etude Opus 10 No. 6 retitling it opus 10 No. 666 with Chadbourne on distorted electric rake introducing himself as "Oighan Chadbornitsky of the Budapest Philharmonic". The song "What the Astronaught Noticed and Then Suggested" became the theme song for the CBC Television sitcom Material World (TV series) produced by The Kids in the Hall's Susan Cavan. 3 videos were filmed for PBLMS. "The Man From Glad" directed by Yvonne Ng (The artistic director of Princess Productions) shot by Nick de Pencier among the costars was Keith Cole. "Frost in Florida" about global warming directed by Andrea Nann also shot by Nick de Pencier. "Taylor Field" about adolescent suicide directed by Howard Wiseman. * (1993) ''City of Wood'', released on Warner Music Canada and Glitterhouse Records in Europe, "genuinely devastating – encompassing rape, mass murder, third world torture, the rewriting of history, and a helpless world in which one can only struggle to stay afloat"〔http://www.allmusic.com/album/city-of-wood-mw0000968326〕 * (1994) ''Beware of Bob'', an instrumental album released on Sabre Touque Records in Canada and FU Stephano in Italy – "supereme improvisational talent" * (1995) ''Accidentally Acquired Beliefs'', released on Warner Music Canada album. "A true Genius"〔http://raisedoncanadianradio.blogspot.ca/2011/01/artist-bob-wiseman-album-accidentally.html〕 It was recorded at Metalworks Studios in Mississauga, Ontario. * (1997) ''More Work Songs From The Planet of the Apes'', released on God Finds Cats. Jean Smith had heaps of praise for the song Libelous http://abv8.me/3zJ about activists David Morris and Helen Steel, see McLibel case. * (2004) ''It's True'', released on Blocks Recording Club Majestic melodies, soaring harpsichord accompaniment * (2006) ''Theme and Variations'', released on Blocks Recording Club. Top 10 of 2006 Toronto's Now Magazine.〔http://www.nowtoronto.com/music/story.cfm?content=157190〕 "A long-ago ex-keyboard wizard of Blue Rodeo who has since turned into one of Canada’s most eclectic polymaths, Wiseman is an outsider among outsiders, a kind of playful genius so mired in his own beautiful idiosyncrasies they’ve become as much a blessing to those who pick up his wavelength as armour against being considered, much less understood, by a broader audience." 〔http://vueweekly.com/music/story/he_would_not_feel_so_all_abandoned_everybody_must_get_bob_wiseman/〕 * (2008) ''The Legend'', released on Blocks Recording Club, a live recording from Halifax. "heartened to see the venue's sandwich board emblazoned with "Tonight! Bob Wiseman! The Legend!" Though he's self-effacing about it, Bob Wiseman holds his audience's attention like only a great artist can." writes Exclaim! magazine〔http://exclaim.ca/Reviews/PopAndRock/bob_wiseman-legend〕 * (2013) ''Giulietta Masina at the Oscars Crying'', released on vinyl with Blocks Recording Club and on cd with God Finds Cats, suggests "his best work is far from behind him".〔http://radiofreecanuckistan.blogspot.ca/2013/01/the-followingreviews-ran-in-january-in.html〕 It features songs about police murders Robert Dziekanski taser incident, songs about political leaders he admires Jean-Bertrand Aristide and others who he reviles for limiting freedom of speech〔http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/03/15/muzzling_of_canadian_government_scientists_sent_before_information_commissioner_suzanne_legault.html〕 guests on the recording include Mary Margaret O'Hara, Maylee Todd, Serena Ryder, Mark Hundevad, Michael Keith and Michael Holt. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bob Wiseman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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