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You may travel to the darkest reaches of space.
“A composer with the ability to transcend several musical genres and yet stay firmly focused within his own perceived sound…he is certainly one of Australia's most creative and interesting composers for acoustic music to emerge in the last decade...
The word 'genius' I have always reserved for the greats like Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Richard Thompson and Louie Armstrong, but given the diversity, variation, number of musical genres, and the prolific number of high quality, original compositions of all styles of music Pete has put out on this record, and continues to produce every year, not to mention a back catalogue of finely crafted original songs (that always have something unique to say about the human condition), it's hard not to use the word for him here as well”...
Tony Bates 3WBC 94.1FM, Box Hill, Victoria
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Two new albums soon to be releasedTwo new albums soon to be released. In March we finalise ‘Colors’ my Jazz album. As usual this has all orginals (and arrangement of ‘Summertime’). The Colors album tracks, each track label is a different color as I saw it in my head. The recordings as ... READ MORE |
Colour Your WorldYou may travel to the darkest reaches of space. Within the darkness of space you will find streams of unimaginable colour, beauty & grace and within each colour strand, translucent, full, or blend, you will find at the centre vortex, a harmony... you will discover the music ... READ MORE |
