MICHAEL PETERS

January 25, 2021

My old music pal Markus Reuter interviewed me for his interview podcast.
More than 90 minutes about music, spirituality, and my life!

January 19, 2021

“Michael Peters oder das immerwährende Jetzt” is a radio feature about my music by Johannes S. Sistermanns.

“Wie klingt Musik, die kaum ein intentionales Zentrum kennt und in bewusster Präsenz agiert? Sie braucht die Freiheit eines sich öffnenden Hörers, um ihre Resonanz zu entfalten. Eine Vieles umschließende Musik, die einen namenlosen Kern zu beleben scheint: und das in Improvisationen, mit Kollegen oder solo, in Formationen mit traditionellen Musikinstrumenten, mit Hilfe digitaler Software, E-Gitarre und einer Klaviatur zahlreicher Fuß-Pedale.”

https://www.swr.de/swr2/musik-jazz-und-pop/michael-peters-oder-das-immerwaehrende-jetzt-100.html

October 2, 2020

Here is a Improvizone live album containing a 2019 Cologne concert by Andrew Booker (drums and synth), Michael Bearpark (guitar), and Michael Peters (bass).
Blog entry here

April 24, 2020

This just released 2019 livelooping compilation has a Michael Peters track (“Pointing is not enough”)

March 23, 2020

Just released – a 13 minute EP with three dialogues of Fabio Anile (piano) with Michael Peters (guitar) – not as ambient as you might expect

Jan 10, 2020

A few minutes from a recent public session
with Bernd Keul (bass/guitar) and Philipp Imdahl (drums):

Dec 20, 2019

“Presence” album release (stream/download here)

The ambient album by Michael Peters and Fabio Anile was released as a digital download on the British Audiobulb label.

A CD version is available for preorder from Burning Shed.

“Presence” consists of 13 quiet ambient soundscapes for piano, electric guitar, electronics, livelooping, and field recordings. The music was entirely improvised and recorded during several recording sessions in Rome between 2010 and 2018. There are no overdubs (except for the field recordings).

Michael Peters – guitar
Fabio Anile – keyboards

Mastering by Erdem Helvacioglu
Cover image by Philippe Paulus Jacobus Smeyers

“In the early days of burningshed.com, we received very huge amounts of ambient improvised music, much of it very good. Michael Peters’ “Stretched Landscape #1” nonetheless stood out amongst those.
This collaboration with Fabio Anile captures all I loved about that recording and builds on it; its slowly evolving soundscape hovers at the fringes of your attention and quietly brings you into its world. It’s a beautiful thing to hear two musicians who can clearly play well choosing to play so minimally and tastefully”
– Peter Chilvers, Burning Shed founding director and Brian Eno collaborator

Reviews:
“This is a really, really beautiful album”
“Spontaneous chronicles of precious moments of inner peace”
“A beautiful cotton softness”

June 3, 2017

“The Beloved in a Snowflake” digital edition

The digital edition of ‘The Beloved in a Snowflake’ was just remastered by Markus Reuter and sounds even better than before!

Essential Michael Peters listening:
My own favorite pieces from the past few years.
Most of these tracks are solo electric guitar improvisations with electronics and loops.
All pieces have been released before on Bandcamp and Soundcloud but I have made a number of edits for this release, and finally, Markus Reuter added his fairy dust, mastering all pieces.

Listen and download on my Bandcamp page (the album is also available on Amazon, Spotify, Google Play, and a number of other digital stores)

March 30, 2017

“The Beloved in a Snowflake” limited CD edition

Just in: a package with 100 beautiful digipacks of ‘The Beloved in a Snowflake’, containing a personal ‘best-of’ of electric guitar based loops and soundscapes, most of which taken from the Escape Veloopity album series, but edited to some extent for the CD release.

March 17, 2017

“Accumulating Time Lags” limited CD edition

Just in: a package with 50 beautiful digipacks of ‘Accumulating Time Lags’, containing new mixes of the tracks from the 2014 Bandcamp version plus an edit of the August 2016 Berlin loop.