In two weeks time Peter Broderick will be starting a UK tour. If you're not familiar with the multi-layered folk of his recent album Home then have a look at the video below the dates. Have you ever seen anyone wang one of those whistle-tubes around quite like that? And not be on drugs? He looks very serious about it.
Broderick is part of the field of popular music which embraces elements of modern classical, yet also crosses over with the artier end of rock, folk, and so on.
'Home' slowly glides through the eardrums; fluttering heart strings and quivering neck-hairs on its way to the stomach's pit where it radiates a warm, omnipresent glow.
Perhaps it's possible to stop comparing some contemporary classical musicians to Max Richter, and instead begin comparing them to Peter Broderick. After a release of a 7" single on John Twells' (Xela) Type Records, Portland based Peter Broderick emerges with a full length album, Float. For this release, Broderick borrows his friends Amanda Lawrence for string and vocal work, and Skyler Norwood ...
Peter Broderick's new album Home isn't much more than a guitar, his voice, and occasional percussion. Anything else frankly would get in the way. At a moment in time when most of the industrialized world is bent on multi-tasking themselves to a living death Broderick sheds himself of distractions and focuses on his precision finger-picking guitar playing, his lush vocal washes, and his zen-like...
Impossibly young and blessed with a clear, wondrous talent that has seen him contribute his wares to the likes of M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel's She & Him project and, most notably, the tinkling, swooning orchestral pop of Danish outfit Efterklang (who invited him to join their touring band), Peter Broderick - barely into his 20s, proficient at a number of instruments and of a yearning, gracefu...
Peter Broderick - barely into his 20s, proficient at a number of instruments and of a yearning, graceful disposition - released his debut album proper earlier this year. Given some of the plaudits it's received elsewhere (including a nomination for The People's Voice Prize ), DiS thought an evaluation was something it really ought to get 'round to doing.
'Home' slowly glides through the eardrums; fluttering heart strings and quivering neck-hairs on its way to the stomach's pit where it radiates a warm, omnipresent glow.
Broderick is part of the field of popular music which embraces elements of modern classical, yet also crosses over with the artier end of rock, folk, and so on.