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Peter Morén

"The Last Tycoon", the 8th of april

About Me

On April 8, 2008, Quarterstick Records will release the highly anticipated solo album from Peter Morén, the lead singer of Swedish indie megastars Peter Bjorn and John.The Last Tycoon may be Peters first solo album, but it has been several years in the making. Throughout the hectic years of songwriting, recording and touring with Peter Bjorn and John in support of their infectious breakout album Writers Block, Peter never rested. What emerged from that period is an intimate 10-track collection of delicate and introspective songs from one of the most promising young storytellers of the decade.Recorded and mixed over two years in tiny apartments and rehearsal studios in Sweden and the U.S., The Last Tycoon is built around the basic foundation of Peter and his guitar. The album has a distinctly homemade feel that feeds from the folk singer-songwriter tradition but still incorporates strings, synthesizers, vibraphones, percussion, a musical saw, and even a drum machine or two. Peter will be bringing his charming folk-pop to the South by Southwest Festival in March and a handful of select cities this spring. We at Quarterstick Records are honored to be working with Peter Morén and cant wait to share The Last Tycoon with all of you in April.
Doing norwegian cover at Joes Pub, NYC!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/29/2007
Band Members: Me, me & me.
Influences: You tell me!
Sounds Like: Guitars, organs, pianos, basses, vocals with words. The occasional synth, vibraphone, drum, harmonica and other stuff. Like clapping of hands and slapping of knees. Pop, folk, indie, whatever. Songs!

The Last Tycoon out now. Click the album art below to purchase via the Touch and Go Records Digital Store!

Live from Paradiso on Fabchannel
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Peter's tour diary from Current TV

Record Label: Quarterstick/Touch & Go, Wichita/Cooperative Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Releasedate and tourstart!

It’s late night here in Stockholm and I should be in bed, but as always when I’m leaving for a long period I have a tendency to stay up too late. The packing is done so I can’t blame...
Posted by Peter Morén on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:28:00 PST

Back home!

I’m back home in Sweden since friday. It’s snowing as hell here. It sure did’nt snow in Austin. Rather it was hotter than hell. Some good shows though! Thanks to everyone who attende...
Posted by Peter Morén on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:44:00 PST

Another SXSW-show and websingle

Hiya again! I'm now at Arlanda airport, heading for SXSW and like in the Wilco-song I'm going Via Chicago to meet up my new american label Quarterstick, who by the way just have released my first sing...
Posted by Peter Morén on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:34:00 PST

SXSW, Pet Sounds and coverart

I will perform a few shows during next weeks SXSW in Austin, TX3/12 Almost Gold showcase @ Parish 10pm (w/ Zambri, Wild Light, Water Meego, Does it Offend You, Yeah?, and Foreign Islands)3/13 Sch...
Posted by Peter Morén on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:29:00 PST

Support!

We've just started working on the new PBJ-album here in Stockholm and it's going along just fine. This being a soloblog I should'nt talk about that though ;). Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks to al...
Posted by Peter Morén on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:44:00 PST

Co-producer on tour!

As I've said before, "The Last Tycoon" was recorded and co-produced by two very good friends of mine, Daniel Värjö (The Concretes) and Tobias Fröberg. Now I'm very happy to announce that at least one ...
Posted by Peter Morén on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:17:00 PST

European Tour

Hey all you europeans! Before the american tour I announced earlier I will take on Europe. The dates comes here down below. Unfortunately no Austria, Switzerland or Italy, though I do think the album ...
Posted by Peter Morén on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:49:00 PST

Demos

It felt a bit empty here without any music. I did'nt remember I had any demo's for the songs on the coming album, the album's is sort of the demo in this stripped down case. But then I remembered...
Posted by Peter Morén on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:28:00 PST

Wichita Recordings/Cooperative Music

I'm happy to reveal that my old PBJ-partners at Wichita and Cooperative will release "The Last Tycoon" in Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France and of course Scandinavia. I don...
Posted by Peter Morén on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:22:00 PST

I took away songs..

from the upcoming album. So you won't grow tired of them. Not really ;) But we're gonna highlight some songs again soon and I just wanted to change it up a bit. Also theese mixes I had up were'nt all ...
Posted by Peter Morén on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:10:00 PST