Album Notes

Peter Buxton - Biography

Peter Buxton was raised in a musical household and was classically trained in piano, violin and clarinet. At school he joined a rock band playing piano and bass guitar; they toured in East Anglia, England. At college he played keyboards with a local student band. In the 1980\'s he was surrounded by musicians, mainly introduced by his blues singer cousin, Dana Gillespie. He developed an ambient and filmic style on the piano, playing periodically with Dana Gillespie and Sam Gopal, a guitarist and tabla player, who had toured with Jimmy Hendrix and Jeff Beck.

Peter expanded his musical influences with extensive travel in South America, Africa and India. He produced music compilations and was a DJ at private parties. In the early 1990s he started the renowned Kimberley Festival with a group of friends and family. Peter has performed over the years at this private music festival which is held in Norfolk each summer and attracts a wide range of artists.

In the 1990s he joined the Limen Company, an innovative percussion-based \"musical theatre group\". The Limen Company never played the same thing twice, favouring energetic improvisation - a sort of musical shamanic journey. The style of music ranged from full-on tribal drumming to psychedelic rock, a cappela chanting, ambient and ethnic styles. Peter\'s confidence expanded in these intoxicating years of experimentation, live events, workshops and a successful series of performances at the 2001 Healing Sounds Festival in Brighton. He developed a lively vocal ability and played keyboards in various styles as well as playing African drums, percussion, recorder, kalimba (African thumb-piano) and didgeridoo.

In 2000 he started writing and recording his own music at the London studio of fellow Limen Company member, Jon Hall and his partner George Stewart, both from the 1980\'s sensation Kissing the Pink. World travel, house music and William Orbit are obvious influences in the first songs which Peter wrote. He then built his own studio in the country, working with DJ and producer Richard Kondal, with whom he recently completed his first album Passion for Life. The musical style of the debut album encompasses dance, trance, funk, blues, dub and ambient. Peter invited a variety of musicians to perform on particular songs, including the singer Dana Gillespie, Asian master-percussionist Pandit Dinesh (ex - Osibisa), and sax player, Bernie Greenwood, who had toured with Eric Clapton in the 1960\'s.

At the 2005 Kimberley Festival, Peter gave an exuberant performance, playing some of his remixed songs, with Jon Hall on percussion, Tim Cross (ex-Mike Oldfield) on keyboards and Dana Gillespie singing backing vocals. Passion for Life was progressively launched in 2006 / 2007 during which Peter finished a film on his musical journey, a pilot film for a TV series profiling the influence of technology on music-making.

Peter continues to play with professional musician friends and do live events, but he is currently focused on recording and making films to annotate his music and philosophy. Check out his hip-hop song \"Rocking with your Archetypes\" shot in Chicago, or something completely different - the wonderfully relaxed and uplifting song \"Blissed out in Paradise\" shot on an island in the Indian Ocean.
http://www.youtube.com/user/PeterBuxtonMusic

Peter Buxton\'s album Passion for Life is still adored by those who find it, however he is writing more songs for the next album.

Check his website for the latest news, photos and to hear mixes of new tracks. If you email him, he\'ll probably send you an exclusive new mix!

www.peterbuxton.com