Michael Peters
Michael Peters is a German guitarist and composer who often uses livelooping in his solo work. His popular ambient album 'Stretched Landscape #1' and his experimental sound diary album 'MY2K', containing 366 sound miniatures, both received critical acclaim from the renowned WIRE magazine.
The store sells several other solo CDs and mp3 downloads of Michael's music, as well as his first released guitar / livelooping music, on the 1984 album from the band 'Camera Obscura'. Some of his ambient synthesizer music from the same time (some of it including livelooping) is available for download.
More information, extensive samples, and videos available from www.michaelpeters.de
michael peters - stretched landscape #1 (cdr)
A continuous suite of processed piano and textures, German composer Michael Peters (primarily, a guitarist) has produced a beguiling work worthy of comparison with the best of Brian Eno's Ambient output. Evocative, emotional and chilled. Tracks57'30'' Creditscomposed, performed, produced and mixed by michael peters
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I have had this album for over a month now, and not a day has gone past where either I have listened to it, or a segment has popped into my head. This is classic. pure ambient material, and one that time will prove to be the masterpiece that it is.
Christopher Orczy
I have heard this piece on SOMA FM's Streaming Internet Radio station Drone Zone several times now, and it never fails to brighten my workday. Thank you for creating such a wonderful and thoughtful work and contributing it to the world.
John Serdy
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Mark
I am intrigued by this one, how about a short streaming sample?
evaia
Did it happen by chance that Michael Peters - after his comparatively accessible 'Escape Veloopity' album - moved from metropolis Cologne to the nearby village of Kuerten, close to where visionary Karlheinz Stockhausen resides? Just as the works of the grand master of academic electronic music become more and more erratic, so do Michael Peters' compositions. Primarily a guitarist, Peters uses piano sounds, treated with granular synthesis, to create a one hour track of images from an imaginary deserted landscape, rolled over by dark waves of sound, and inhabited only by chirping cicadas. Not even Brian Eno has dared to venture this deep into dark ambient realms. This is late night cinema for headphone owners.
(from German Keyboards magazine)
A single 57-minute surge that unfurls via waves of ghost voices, spare, nodding piano shapes, sustained guitar und coloured field recordings populated by bullfrogs, birds and the first rays of the sun as it breaks the horizon, Stretched Landscape #1 began life as an adjunct to one of German composer and guitarist Michael Peters's installations. Although ostensibly modelled on Brian Eno's site-specific work, Stretched Landscape #1 more than transcends its roots thanks to the use of some grainy, sawtoothed sonorities and a recording quality that's punk enough to impact on the guts as well as the third eye. It is at once reminiscent of the primitive minimalism of early Richard Young's sides like Advent, the cavernous drone work of New Zealand Improv units like Surface Of The Earth and K-Group, and the solarised ensemble sound of the Makoto Kawabata-affiliated Toulouse-based group Ueh, as well as earlier progenitors of organic, minimal sonics like Robert Fripp and Tangerine Dream. But the sound remains very much the product of the world-straddling reach of Peters's own fingers.
WIRE magazine