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Peter Escott

About Me

"Those janglings of the strings, so general among ordinary practitioners, were never heard from the harp in his hands. But it was in piano passages he chiefly excelled: these came out with an effect indescribably charming. His 'whispering' notes commenced in a degree of piano that required the closest approach to the instrument to render them at first audible, but increase, by degrees, to the richest chords. In their greatest degree of softness, they resembled rather the sympathetic ones than those brought out by the finger."


SLOWCOACH:
1. It's all in the program
2. Broker in flight
3. The same, again
4. Back up the fire escape
5. History
6. Local glamour
7. Morning in the Meadows
8. Slowcoach
9. The chastity kick
10. Submarine
11. Red brick eyes
12. Clear the room
Buy Buy Buy: Here Here Here
Or you can get it at:
Tommy Gun Records, Hobart
Missing Link Records, Melbourne
Collector's Corner, Melbourne
more soon...


Presently living somewhere with an internet connection too slow to load the actual music on anyone's Myspace. Thanks for the kind words, all, but the most I can do in return at the moment is compliment you on your imaginative and quite promising song titles.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/03/2008
Band Website: http://www.russianglowcaps.com
Influences: Arab Strap. Broadcast. Dave Graney. Tindersticks. The Walkmen. The Dears. Scott Walker. John Cale. Oh alright Nick Cave.
Sounds Like: A "classically trained" bore who's long since packed away the Shostakovich and forgotten years of theory and technique in favour of desperately trying to bridge the howling black hole of a gap between "anything played entirely on piano" and "anything you might want to listen to as anything more than a grim curiosity" in a transparent, largely ego-driven attempt to "fit in".

Christ, that felt great!
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

New demo, restaurant jazz

Just recorded and uploaded a demo of a very new song called Baby Grand in Claremont. No idea where it'll go from here. Wrote the words on Saturday with a completely different arrangement in mind: B fl...
Posted by on Sun, 03 May 2009 21:27:00 GMT

Who's gonna spit in the broth?

Two new demos: Where If Anywhere, the first recorded evidence of one of several new sounds I'm going with at the moment, and Here For Love, Here For Me, quite possibly the last gasp of the piano+vocal...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:12:00 GMT

Three-star Uncut review; not bad for a one-star man

True:Following a batch of homemade CD-Rs and an extended visit to Edinburgh, Scotland, Slowcoach is the first proper album from Tasmania's Peter Escott. It's rough and ready, but already shows signs o...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:47:00 GMT

Every flag in town

Video games don't rot your brain; what they do, the newer ones at least, is delude you into thinking that you can be the best at whatever you do. Maybe even that you're the only one doing what you do ...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:31:00 GMT