Well, I have been waiting almost a year to say this, but the debut CD from the Peter Roy Project is now available through AMAZON.com!! I am still working on how I will sell the CD's in Germany, but for those in America and other place where you can buy from AMAZON please give my music a listen. It's good music to just put on and chill too. International newspaper STARS AND STRIPES has described my music as the perfect music for relaxing too. I couldn't be happier with that!!

cheers,

Peter

Well, Aaron English asked about how and why I choose to go with the Laptop DJ concept instead of a band? I love this question because I am sure a lot of musician's are wondering the same thing. I have been singing in bands since I was 14 and I have sang every genre of music from rock to death metal and everything in between. I have played shows for thousands of people and shows where only a couple people showed up. The one thing that is always the same is the feeling I get when the music starts and I start to sing. It's a feeling that can not be described or reproduced. When I started putting the songs together for The Peter Roy Project I had just come out of playing in a band that was ultra creative but had way too much tension and drama. I wanted to originally just play my music solo just me and my guitar, but I felt that kind of limited what I could write and play. So, I started exploring the idea of how I could produce complex multi layered music live without the use of a band. I had been using Ableton to put my beats and ambient textures together, and I was also looking around online at what other musicians outside my genre of music were doing. I noticed a lot of DJ had given up the standard turntables and were using laptops. That gave me the idea of combining the world of a laptop musician with the world of the acoustic singer/songwriter. The trick was going to be finding a laptop musician will to take the chance on what I was trying to do. I actually put a musician wanted ad up on the Ableton Germany site and got several responses, but they were all more interested in remixing my music apposed to playing in a live situation. Then I got a message from Brian Lindsay who I have known for years and is a resident DJ at one of the best known house/techno music clubs in Germany called the AIRPORT. Brian was very open to trying the whole concept I was going for and had a lot of idea's of his own he threw in.

The question Aaron had for me was "how do you two go about building a tight, high-energy live set together, with just laptop, guitar, and voice?". This is the question I asked myself a lot at the beginning. I think to answer this question I must first explain who I see my target audience as and what kind of environment do I see the music being performed in? Unfortunately most people listen in my music on myspace have only heard the acoustic rock elements of my music. The truth is most on my music is more a combination of laid back jazz/pop/ambient with just a couple songs falling into the acoustic rock genre. In the next couple of weeks my music will be for sales for download through this site and in late May my debut CD will be available to buy through CDBABY and Amazon. I see my main audience as people less interested in what's popular at the moment and more the people who are always looking to hear new and different things. Though scoring a across over song into the pop audience would be a welcome dream (the money could fund my music for many years to come.)!! So, where do I see myself playing live? Well, since I live in Germany (though I am American) I am much more focused in the European music scene. America to me is this land that's not even in my sights as far as live shows. So, I am focusing in Jazz clubs, bigger cafes' that cater to live music, and of course the great European music festivals.

So, here it is 1 January 2007 and I am looking ahead to a fruitful year! What is coming up this year for the Peter Roy Project? First let me give you the definite stuff first. The debut release will be coming out sometime later this winter or early spring at the latest. I wanted to have it out sooner but due to some snags finishing the last couple songs it had to be bumped back just a bit. Look for the Peter Roy Project to start playing live shows this year. We will play the UK, France, Holland, and Germany for sure sometime this year and I am going to try to add as many European countries as I can. I would say most the non Germany shows will come in summer and into fall. I will be looking into getting some merchandising going too; t-shirts, hoodies, and stickers! I will be heading down to Cannes with Dominic to help with getting CRIES IN THE MIDST rolling along.

Now, for what I am hoping to do this year! We are trying to get picked up for SXSW, but won't know till February if they pick us to play. I am doing everything I can to get onto some German music festival this summer. If you have never been to German music festival it's just amazing the diversity of bands that will play one or two stages. I would also like to get into webcasting some live performances of the Peter Roy Project for everyone who doesn't get a chance to see us live. Got to work out the logistics of how it all works and then get a good place to do it from. If it all works we would charge a small fee for the live broadcast and or the download after the performance.

So, that's what I am looking at for 2007! Big thanks to Dominic Jackson for making this all possible. Also, a huge thanks to My new partner Brian Lindsay for making it possible for the Peter Roy Project to do live shows!!

The search for a laptop DJ is finally over and I would like to officially welcome DJ Brian Lindsay to the Peter Roy Project. Brian is an established House DJ and is known through Germany. check out his myspace site below!  Brian has the perfect attitude to help propel The Peter Roy Project to the next level. This also means that The Peter Roy Project and start preparing for some live shows. The Cannes film festival is in late spring and look for us to be there, and be on the look out in Germany, Switzerland, and England over the next 6 months. We will send out info on tour dates once things are finalized.

 http://www.myspace.com/djblindsay  

I would like to explain to the whole word just what my song "MD" is all about. The title of the songs is actually M.D which stands for Mia (my beautiful daughter) and Diana (My ever loving wife and biggest supporter). My whole life I have written depressing and dark lyrics, but then one day that all changed. It's was in Late January 2006 and Diana was pregnant with Mia and we had gone to the gynecologist for Diana's check up and sonogram. Mia still had two months till she was born but let me tell you I saw the cutest most beautiful little face on that sonogram. She had such big eye's and the cutest lips. Now, about a year and a half before this I fell madly in love with this little Serbian woman and she changed my whole life for the better. Diana was that one true love I had always looked for but never found. She took great care of me and loved me so much. It was her that encouraged me to be a solo artist and it was Diana who inspired me to really start writing music. So, the song M.D is my tribute to the two women in my life that I love more than anything. It is because of their muse that I wrote the best song I have ever written M.D!!