Peter Ivers - Becoming Peter IversBecoming Peter Ivers tells the story of the late Peter Ivers, a virtuosic songwriter and musician whose antics bridged not just 60s counterculture and New Wave music but also film, theater, and music television. Written and recorded in Los Angeles in the mid to late 1970s, Becoming Peter Ivers raises the curtain on this mischievous master of ceremonies, who, harmonica in hand, rarely missed a chance to light up an audience. Since his untimely death in

is included on this edition along with a demo recorded in William Reid‰۪s (Jesus And Mary Chain) front room

this extraordinarily gifted 25-year-old from Peckham in South London adds further depth and substance to his oeuvre with another wondrous long-player called ‘Man Alive

At age 14 he wrote his first song

who worked at Toho Studios under the legendary Fumio Hayasaka

"What could a businessman ever want more/Than to have us sucking in his store

The new album was recorded closer to home

piano runs skitteringåÊbetween each of his lines

the new material sees Pinkshinyultrablast go down a more electronic path while experimenting with new sounds and genres (including inspiration from Japanese pop such as Chiemi Manabe and Yellow Magic Orchestra)

both of which come with a bonus disc of previously unreleased demos and the band’s only John Peel Session

collaborators

‘The Switch’ is their second studio full length and it finds the duo working with a more subtle palette

his death all but fazed the LAPD