It Comes In Waves

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#		Title	Length
1		It Comes In Waves	5:21	Play
2		Church Of Disney	2:59	Play
3		Big Sun	3:20	Play
4		I Don't Think She Misses Me At All	4:43	Play
5		Me And My Invisible Friend	3:45	Play
6		The Massage	4:01	Play
7		In The Dim Light Of A Brand New Day	4:06	Play
8		Invisible	3:24	Play
9		Pray For Rain	3:54	Play
10		That Song	4:01	Play
11		Fake Horizon	4:35	Play

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In a perfect world, which this clearly isnt, Martin Briley would be a household name, putting his album out every 18 months or so to the delight of his several hundred thousand fans (we would have said millions, but we didnt want to be greedy). Instead, he practices his songwriting craft in a tiny home studio on behalf of others, and most of the recordings he makes these days are demos heard only by other artists and their managers. Now thats not exactly digging ditches, so dont cry for him, Argentina. But in the early Eighties, there was a perfect moment when public taste intersected with a tasteful musician for an MTV-driven Top Fifteen hit called Salt In My Tears.
Mind you, Briley had already had a decent career by the time Salt hit the video screens. Starting off in a band called Mandrake Paddle Steamer, Briley segued into Dave Greenslades eponymous prog-rock outfit for what was arguably their best album, Time and Tide. Following that, he moved to New York City and ultimately lined up a gig playing bass with Ian Hunters band, contributing bass and vocals on the Short Back And Sides album as well as touring.
In 1981, opportunity, in the form of Mercury Records, knocked: Martin issued his first solo album, Fear Of The Unknown. Looking not unlike a British Jackson Browne on the back cover, Brileys arch sense of humor rocketed over the heads of the American public. Nonetheless, he made a second album. 1983s One Night With A Stranger contained what every successful artist in 1983 needed: an MTV hit. The song, Salt In My Tears, was a middle finger in the rear view mirror of a failed relationship, and Briley, for his part in the video, played it with laconic ease, most of it supine on a couch. It wasnt that he had intended it that way, but food poisoning had overcome him on the day of shooting, so the director was forced to improvise around Brileys wooziness. The mother of invention spawned a beautiful child, and the single climbed the chart in tandem with its rotation on the tube. The single peaked at 15, the album at 55.
As you might expect, the anticipation for Dangerous Moments, Brileys third album, was extra-high. Producer Phil Ramone, known for his work with Paul Simon and Billy Joel, was brought on board. It was a marriage made on Jerry Springers stage. Briley, ever the gentleman, obliquely suggests that they had different musical visions, but its clear that the magic of One Night With A Stranger was not in evidence. The album peaked at 85, and while the title track grazed the top forty of the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, the ride was over, and Briley left Mercury.
Briley is considered by many to be one of the most prominent songwriters in America today, writing for such artists as Celine Dion, N'SYNC, Jessica Andrews, 5-Star, Willy Nile, Michael Bolton, Pat Benatar, Gregg Allman, Kenny Loggins and Barry Manilow, to name just a few. In fact, he was recently presented with an RIAA award for Celine Dion's "A New Day Has Come" for worldwide sales of 8 million.
Two of Brileys three albums (One Night With A Stranger and Dangerous Moments) were nominated for Grammys for art direction.


His debut solo work is varied, certainly not
boring and quite possibly worthwhile.
Cyndi Astie Clearwater Sun

This song (One Step Behind) is laced with silvery tendrils of piano,
billowing silken sheets of electric guitar and vocals that echo from
the painful, cobwebbed corners of everymans suppressed regrets.
Gene Triplett The Daily Oklahoman

It should go over quite well with fans of
Tolstoys The Death of Ivan Illych.
Gary Peterson The Capital Times

Frighteningly misanthropic...I wouldnt suggest you listen to him
if youre going through emotional turmoil.
Joel Vance Stereo Review

... dark, brooding, passionate and yet oddly inspiring.
John Philips Midland Ont. Canada

The Frederick Wiseman of rock.
David McGee The Record

Brileys voice is similar to Phil Collins, I dont think even Phils
mother could tell them apart on the phone.
Carl Bauer The Tech

Confusion of reality and desire is seldom seen as clearly.
Sheldon L.Rosenzweig The Alabama Graphic

...I think he (Martin Briley) and Germaine Greer
would make a great parley.
Cindy Adams New York Post