German painter, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Peter Piek releases on June 11th 2021 a new single titled “Blood”, from his new acoustic album “Walking Zschopau”, due out late July on Hamburg based Backseat Records.
Blood is a song written from the perspective of water, recorded somewhen in 2020 in Peter’s painting studio, with mix, mastering and additional sound design by Andreas Laudwein at FLOEROPA.
The video is a bare and intense live performance of the song, just Peter facing the camera playing his acoustic guitar.
Since his first release back in 2006, Peter Piek became used to spend most of his life on tours. He played concerts with Art Brut, The Robocop Kraus, Public Service Broadcasting, Naked Lunch, Tex, Kat Frankie, Ian Fisher, Lasse Matthiessen, Appaloosa, John Elliot and many more, not forgetting his exhibitions as a celebrated painter.
As a journalist wrote: “Peter is a real craftsman, capable of dealing so naturally with music, painting and writing. He catches eyes and ears with the deafening abstract bursts of his canvases and a colourful music sung with vocal grace. His songs are effervescent anthems of love.”
2020’s pandemic forcibly restricted his physical horizons to his native Leipzig but did not stop his naive, creative approach to everyday’s life. Peter’s imagination moved from the wide to the deep and close, building a kind of relationship with Zschopau, a river in the German state of Saxony, the only place where he was allowed to walk because of restrictions.
As the same time, his sounds turned from light-hearted, electronic lo-fi into intimate, acoustic, folk tunes, almost reproducing the sound and harmony of nature.
“I used to wander to one particular spot nearby a castle, a rock and a fairytale. It was quite a walk. I only managed to go to that one spot closest to my parents’ apartment. Often it left me wondering about the source and the river as a whole. Recording this album felt like walking the river from source to mouth. I walked, recording ten songs live in my atelier in between paintings. No audience. Just a room full of paintings to resonate with. 5 new and 5 previously released songs. The new songs form the first half of the album. Home is a song written from the perspective of a flower. Binoculars is a song about borders, freedom and beaches. Blood is a song written from the perspective of water. Human is a song I wrote in the first half of 2020. The melody really helped me to deal with the pandemic. Silence is a song about a leaf falling from a tree.“
A GIANT LEAP 