Bella Union are at it again – having recently signed The Acorn, Abe Vigoda, Fleet Foxes and Our Broken Garden, the influential London based label have just secured a deal with American born but Denmark based multi instrumentalist Peter Broderick. His new album Home will be released on 20th October which the label pitch as “a record of quietly breathtaking beauty, a gentle and subtle record which reveals its magic gradually over the course of many listens”. Judging from the tracks up on his myspace page we could be in for some what of a treat. ‘Below It’, the only track available to preview from the album, begins with a wistfully picked acoustic guitar with layers of multi-tracked vocals that eventually build into something quite wondrous.
Born in 1987, Peter has already played and toured with numerous groups in Portland and has established himself as a regular session musician for many recording studios, adding violin, banjo, musical saw, mandolin to M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel’s recent She & Him album. Broderick also guests on M. Ward’s new as yet untitled record. In mid 2007, Peter was invited by the Danish ensemble Efterklang, to move to Copenhagen and join their live band. He thus dropped his entire life in Portland, Oregon and moved across the world, spending much of the past year on the road with them.
Peter will be in the UK in September as opening act for the incredible Wildbirds and Peacdrums. Sure to be a great show – Wildbirds.. are one of the best live acts I’ve seen in a long time. Those dates for your diary are:
September
8th – Deaf & Dumb Institute, Manchester
9th – Pavilio, Belfast
10th – Crawdaddy, Dublin
11th – Brudenells Social Club, Leeds
12th – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
13th – Cube, Bristol
15th – Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, London
16th – The Albert, Brighton
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wasnt he also in horse feathers?
yup
he’s appeared on:
Horse Feathers – House With No Home (2008, Kill Rock Stars)
M. Ward – TBA (2008/2009, Merge/4AD)
Efterklang – Tour EP 1 (2008, self-released)
Our Broken Garden – Lost Sailor (2008, Bella Union)
She & Him – Volume 1 (2008, Merge)
Library Tapes – A Summer Beneath the Trees (2008, Make Mine Music)
Library Tapes – Fragment EP (2008, Kning Disk)
White Hinterland – Phylactery Factory (2008, Dead Oceans)
Loch Lomond – Paper the Walls (2007, Hush Records)
Machinefabriek – Kruimeldief (2007, Machinefabriek self-release)
Machinefabriek – Huis (2007, Machinefabriek self-release)
Dolorean – You Can’t Win (2007, Yep-Roc Records)
Loch Lomond – Lament for Children EP (2007, Hush Records)
Laura Gibson – If you Come to Great Me (2006, Hush Records)
Norfolk & Western – The Unsung Colony (2006, Hush Records)
Horse Feathers – Words are Dead (2006, Lucky Madison Records)
Norfolk & Western – A Glided Age (2006, Hush Records)
Damn, that’s a lot of great artists right there. I have noticed a lot of positive reviews for this album, I might give the guy a listen in the future…