Monday, February 07, 2005

 

PETER AYSCOUGH music

Peter was born in a dirty railway town called Swindon in England’s west country. The name “Swindon” derives from “Pig Hill”. Swindon is known for the Great Western Railway Works and for being home to the members of X.T.C., a band that would come to provide much musical inspiration to Peter over the years.

Frustrated by a band break-up, Peter built a new home-studio based around computer technology and resolved to work by himself, writing and recording and trying to obtain from his home recordings the highest quality possible from the technology at hand. A large number of recordings were created, Peter discovered the international MIDI community and became involved with the fringe of song-writers using computers to create music.

By 2004 an album of eleven songs; “Phoebe’s Roundabout” was ready for release. These songs were fairly diverse in style, but all retained strong melodic content and fit somewhere within the very broad boundaries of “alternative pop/rock”. Peter developed a website (www.peterayscough.com) and made these songs available for public consumption in MP3 format. Somehow people found their way to the site and several hundred copies of the songs were downloaded during the year. Late in 2004, Statue Records, a Los-Angeles based independent record company, contacted Peter and offered a distribution deal for the album.

Peter is currently working on a follow-up to Phoebe’s Roundabout. The songs on the new album are darker, more personal and generally “heavier” than those on Phoebe’s Roundabout, but strong accessible pop melodies still pervade the music. Peter is looking forward to playing his songs live again, and intends to continue recording music, and honing his song-writing skills for many years to come.

Website: Peter Ayscough
Download: MP3
Buy CD: Phoebe's Roundabout

Similar Artists: The Smiths, X.T.C., English post-punk, Brisbane music

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