Good golly man, you are as from the heart as it comes. Magic, my friend.

sweet pianos compliment your vocal perfectly, a beautiful track with elements of pop, ballad and acoustic styles, this one hits the soul deeply and creates a sweet magic of ambience, the acoustic guitar blends with the piano like milk and honey, a real amazing track with thought provoking lyrical work too ! loving it ! - thank you - shine

been around/ still/a Wonderfull song & sound

real touching music, sweet piano and sincere honest vocals, beautiful!

beautiful song, Brain, i love it, great vocal and music.

Gorgeous music, gorgeous singing Dear Brian...so vibrational XOXOXO

This is making me weep...wow...mega powerful XOXOXO

Now more than ever. What a wonderful song. Bless you.

Brian Peters - The Song Man

SAUDADE

With My friend Sidhartha Gautama, love him !!

sorry

Meditative and mournful over a loss. Two digital and one analog synthesizer create this tune.

Remembered

Solo played with midi-guitar. Sound from Blofeld.
Bass and drums programmed with Analog Four mkI.

The Birds Are Flying Beyond The Horizon

I has lots of fun mixing and mastering this fabulous band!  💙

Thankfully for SixFoxWhiskey, people are listening, and it is their unique intersection of jazz, jam, funk, and rock that has propelled them into becoming one of the fastest growing bands in New England.
More: https://www.sixfoxwhiskey.com/

SixFoxWhiskey - "Seven Stops" (USA) ... mixed and mastered 💙

A song made for spiritual growth and meditation. this is a non profit track For entertainment purposes only.  Inspired by The fairies of The Legend of Zelda. Assembled on Ableton push 3 and Ableton Live 11. Produced by Bebolution

Coquis Quest

Lyrics;
I'm in the middle of nowhere
A long long way from my team player days
Hop skip and jump from the freeway
But you're gone for miles no matter which way

Another day's blending in with the last
I'm passing the time that flies past me so fast
I rise in the morning and try to keep pace
As this kid in my mirror reflects an old face

Think of the places I'd once been
If I could would I go back again?
The air here's gone stifle and stale
And I'm in a rudderless boat at sea with slack sail

Thoughts travel back to the days of my teens
To my torn flannel shirts and bell bottom blue jeans
When I knew it all though I hadn't a clue
And someday was when I'd have something to do

Well, I'm growing old that's a stone cold fact
I try to look forward can't help looking back
Been feeling restless but don't really know
If I'm I too set in my ways to pull up stakes  and go?

I'm in the middle of nowhere
A long long way from my headier days
A hop skip and jump to go somewhere
But I've been there before and I've nowhere to stay

All of the days blending in with the past
Blurring the spaces between the first and the last
Why rise in the morning and try to keep pace
When the kid in my mirror reflects this old face

Been so long since I was wild and free
Leaving to chance the future waiting for me
The middle of nowhere is all I could find
And what might have been has left me behind

I'm in the middle of nowhere

The Middle Of Nowhere

R-Celestial Sphere

fleetwoodmac dreams cover

SUPERLOOPER...........

I really love it when things come together quickly. Daniel contacted me two weeks ago, and suggested a collaboration. This song immediately came to me, and I sent him a recording a few days later. He then added his magical instrumentation and backing vocals. I am so grateful to him for his wonderful talent and input on this. Thank you, Daniel! https://soundcloud.com/user-276716031

I also asked my niece, Judith, to provide the artwork. It includes a photo of my dad, and the sheet of his favourite song. Thank you, Judith!

In remembrance of my dad - this Christmas Eve will be 3 years since his passing. Thanks for listening.

Daniel Lockhart: strings, violins, added vocals, harmonium, slide lead guitar, hollow body guitar, accordion 
Me: vocals, acoustic guitars, bass
Judith Joshua: artwork
video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V2VyqmvdRo&index=1&list=UUDAJEffE-Nk6zs4eYTrNEgg

Birds of Heaven (Brian Peters)

Not another story
Of princes, crowns and glory
Kingdoms rise and fall
To a Jester’s call
Where Man does not belong
There’s a chapel here
A burned-out tabernacle here
Where a Sliding Stone
Makes a passing home
For the birds of heaven

Now the Archer’s leaving
The arrow’s arc receding
Bleary harmonies
Set in broken keys
Are rolling out a song
Thru’ the fallow fields
Spins a Piper’s reel
And Time is gain
On a rusty chain
For the birds of heaven

There’s an open door
Fading lines along the shore
And flying high
In a bluer sky
Are the birds of heaven

Birds Of Heaven (w Daniel Lockhart)

vid link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Tw7pYMhAQ

Wonders Will Never Cease (Brian Peters)

As long as I can make amends
And turn an enemy into a friend
As long as I in love defend the peace
Wonders will never cease

As long as I can take a stand
And hold a fallen brother by the hand
As long as I can see that man increase
Wonders will never cease
-
I’m calling you
There’s a better way
I’m calling you
There’s a better way
-
As long as I can heal a wrong
Uplift the weak and purify the strong
As long as I embrace the very least
Wonders will never cease
Wonders will never cease

Wonders Will Never Cease

This song was written coming up to the 19th anniversary of Stephen Biko's death in detention. I'd visited St. Stephen's Green in Dublin, where the last hanging took place, and that prompted the title. I'd also been musing on the death of Saint Steven, the first Christian martyr. All of these various ideas informed the lyric.

Vid Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phlGdpXHuUc&feature=youtu.be

Saint Stephen(Brian Peters)

There’s a wicked wind behind me
And it’s coming on down
And it’s breathing air reminds me
There’s blood on the ground
And I’m sleeping on an old lullabye
And I’m reaching between earth and sky

Now there’s a wall between us
You’re on one side
You have already seen us
There’s no place to hide
And I’m standing at the wrong end of the line
And I ain’t got a dime
-
Some people never wonder about things they’ve seen
Some people never worry, some people never dream
-
Well the shadows of the evening
They come to me now
And they’re calling Saint Stephen
To come on back down
There’ve been twenty hard years on the plough
And plenty of tears have been sown

I can feel Saint Stephen
He walks like a ghost
And his nails are uneven
His eyes they are lost
And he’s looking for a home in the world
And he’s caught between heaven and earth

Saint Stephen

Pravinand and I were in his front garden, overlooking the roads of our neighbourhood, when these first lines came to me. I went indoors and started composing this on his piano, before taking it home to finish it off.

vid link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7PfVsJq7UY&feature=c4-overview&list=UUDAJEffE-Nk6zs4eYTrNEgg

When The Healing Starts (Brian Peters)

There’s an asphalt highway burning
All the numbers are lost
No friends and no enemies returning
To the snake on the cross
And I am on the assembly line
Like a body of spare parts
And I’m waiting for the time
When the healing starts

The spirit touches the water
Once in a very long time
There’s fumes in the heart of the city
Cars backed up over a mile
Old men with broken bodies
Lovers with broken hearts
In restless dreams where God is
When the healing starts
-
Wise men, they follow their conscience
Children, they follow the rules
Me, I’m just in between them
I’m always somebody’s fool
-
The neon ladies are sparking
The suicide’s out on a ledge
Two hundred feet to the parking
It’s the thin edge of the wedge
Lies don’t hurt nobody
Truth don’t hit the mark
Everything’s now under study
When the healing starts
-
Temptation’s ‘round every corner
Prejudice over my back
Pride is on my shoulder
Deceit won’t cover the track
-
I’ve seen your face on the cover
Of some mag on a newspaper stand
Everyone’s got to go somewhere
You did the best that you can
Now the power pylons are falling
The streets are deserted and dark
I’ll see you in the morning
When the healing starts

When The Healing Starts

During Apartheid-era South Africa it was quite common for the regime to use the death penalty as a way of eliminating or scaring off opposition. That history has largely turned me against capital punishment. This is dedicated to those prisoners-of-conscience who made the ultimate sacrifice!

vid link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCxWnkrqlxI&feature=youtu.be

Death Row (Brian Peters)

See yourself in the water
Feel the grains of sand beneath your feet
Whirling up in form superior
Enthralling me with majesty

Natural is and natural let it be
We live or we die beneath the sacred tree
Life is just a mist
Soon it’s time to go
Spare my little kid
Waiting on Death Row

To each his own and all for all
Provided we can live in honesty
Perversion comes to turn the mind
Away from man’s equality

Natural is and natural let it be
We live or we die beneath the sacred tree
Life is just a mist
Soon it’s time to go
Spare my little kid
Waiting on Death Row

Death Row

Hello everyone! I've been here since July 2012. 
I hope you enjoy these songs. Thank you for listening!

A playlist: https://soundcloud.com/johnny-minstrel/sets/brian-peters-the-song-man
My Kids: https://soundcloud.com/levana-and-jehan-peters

Those I've collaborated with, or who have covered my songs:

http://soundcloud.com/johnny-minstrel
https://soundcloud.com/john-hollingum
http://soundcloud.com/cindyeichardt
http://soundcloud.com/johnson-ramm
http://soundcloud.com/jordan-cannady
http://soundcloud.com/riccicoughlin
http://soundcloud.com/sunnidayz
http://soundcloud.com/pau-14
http://soundcloud.com/philipbridle
http://soundcloud.com/kobe-akita
http://soundcloud.com/experimentator
http://soundcloud.com/vladaroo
http://soundcloud.com/hebikjoudaar
http://soundcloud.com/rustystringz
http://soundcloud.com/chrisscheri
http://soundcloud.com/van-gabriel
http://soundcloud.com/spaghetti-hillbillies
http://soundcloud.com/deephod
http://soundcloud.com/tolu_lope
http://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik
https://soundcloud.com/the-searchers
https://soundcloud.com/fernando-gonzalo
https://soundcloud.com/jrcros
https://soundcloud.com/emerfox
https://soundcloud.com/krum41
https://soundcloud.com/joakimlartey
https://soundcloud.com/ofemi
https://soundcloud.com/chrisliving
https://soundcloud.com/progrockdan1
https://soundcloud.com/textosh
https://soundcloud.com/sciencebase
https://soundcloud.com/lonesomedstringband
https://soundcloud.com/hilary-dirlam?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=0
https://soundcloud.com/the-celturian?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=0
https://soundcloud.com/raging-rausch
https://soundcloud.com/user-996383829
https://soundcloud.com/user-53145152-479345033

I'm a singer-songwriter from Durban, South Africa. Having being raised in the church I was advantaged with a ready-made audience. Their kindness, patience and ecouragement gave me the confidence to improve my songwriting and to take it quite seriously. At times when the lyrics had a touch of controversy, they never thought it scandalous, which further encouraged me to write on social issues, love songs, and songs with just a story. 
By my mid-teens I was heavily influenced by the hippy gospel songwriter Larry Norman, which may explain why into my 50's I still have long hair! Through his music I learned that songs do have a greater purpose. 
As a young upstart I was blessed with a kind and forgiving congregation. Today I'm blessed with a very tolerant family and a bunch of great friends. I love what I do!



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