April 1st will see Peter Broderick’s classic Erased Tapes debut Music For Falling From Trees reissued on vinyl and CD.

Through relentless touring and multiple album recordings, Portland-based Peter Broderick has established himself as a contemporary composer, known for his innate gift as a musical medium to picking up any instrument, turning his musings into poignant songs.  The scope of Peter’s work is vast – his recordings and original score work currently feature in dance arrangements, art installations, films and documentaries. He collaborated with many like-minded contemporaries such as Nils Frahm and Greg Haines, and featured on Clint Mansell’s Last Night soundtrack. Peter’s signature emotional depth cuts through any instrument to create stirring, personal music that is full of artistic detail. Currently an artist in residence at Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, Ireland, 2016 has much in store for Peter.

2009’s Music for Falling From Trees, a 30-minute piece in seven sections, was created for a contemporary dance by London-based choreographer Adrienne Hart at Neon Dance. Adrienne was looking for a score of piano and strings, so Peter left the guitar and his voice aside and focused entirely on those two timbres. 

The dance tells the story of a man in a psychiatric hospital, and his struggle to maintain his identity. The music is sometimes melancholic, sometimes playful, sometimes chaotic, but with the combination of piano and strings, full of beauty, reverence and awe. 

IN HIS OWN WORDS: “In late 2008, Adrienne Hart contacted me about scoring her new work, Falling From Trees. In Adrienne's words, ‘the piece is set in a psychiatric hospital and centered around one man's struggle to retain his identity in the most extreme of circumstances.’ There are four dancers in the piece. One male playing the patient, and three female hospital workers. 

I had been making music for a variety of film projects, but the thought of scoring a dance was very exciting to me. I was on tour at the time, so I wasn't able to start writing the music until I had a break in early January. The dance premiered on January 21st, so I had about three weeks to create the score. I camped out up in the top of my father's barn with some minimal recording equipment, my violin and viola, and an old broken piano. 

Given the time constraints, I approached the music in a very open way. Rather than sit down and try to compose something, I just set up a microphone and started playing. After coming up with a couple of themes on the piano, I started recording, using those small themes and improvising around them. Most of the sections have a small core that is composed, and then the rest is improvised. Luckily for me this method seemed to work. I would work all day and then send a sketch over to Adrienne, and every time her response was positive. So in this way we worked very well together. I give my hugest thanks to Adrienne for trusting me to create the music for her wonderful work. 

Adrienne told me from the beginning she was looking for a score of piano and strings. So I decided to take this literally and make a rule not to use any other instruments. In the script it called for the sound of a ticking clock. I made this sound by tapping on the body of the violin with my fingernails. The sound of an electric shock given to the patient is depicted by a quick, distorted piano chord. And all other droning and bass tones were made by extending and processing violin and/or piano tones, etc. Thank you very much for listening.” – Peter Broderick, March 2009

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Probably considered the main single from my release "Circle When Finished", this shoegaze, DnB, IDM hybrid track is a favorite among my listeners/friends.  So, I'm offering it up for free download.  Thanks to J. Marion for his work on the second lead guitar and Lisa Taylor (Water Fae) for the vocal samples.  This track goes out to my friends Mark, Dave, and Brandon (RIP) that I made this kind of music with all of the time in the mid 90's under the band names "The Waystill" and/or "Peripheral Visionaries".  This track is and has always been dedicated to them (and their unending inspiration to my music). 
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They say God is a Gardener and the Universe is a Garden. I believe them. Your life is a Garden, My Life is a Garden. May you be a Garden Keeper. Tend to your soul and nurture your self. Pick those pesky Weeds whose roots have grown deep on the back of your earnest Ego. Flourish. Live life in abundance. Cultivate respect. Plant the seeds of self-love and give fruit to humility. You may be Between Lives, as I am. A step away from a new Beginning. May you take that step.

American artist and composer Jesse Jolee teamed with three Brazilian Instrumentalists to produce, Between Lives under the name Garden Keeper. Feel the mixture of Brazilian and American influences, a bit of Jazz and Swing, Funk and Reggae, Folk and Psychedelic Rock. Jesse Jolee’s first EP has a decidedly eclectic worldly feel. From meeting the musicians by chance, to arranging the songs on a farm in the Brazilian Countryside, to recording the album in an old Screw Factory, the surreal creative process as a whole took a little less than a month. The Album was then given the final touches at Sterling Sound in New York.

Jesse Jolee, began a new life in Brazil when he was 19. He fell in love with a Brazilian exchange student, now his wife, and left the US on a whim after love and adventure. “My wife gave me my first guitar months after arriving in Brazil, an old nylon string guitar, I had time on my hands and she would come to my first lessons with me as a translator, since I didn’t speak any Portuguese! I always loved to write, and I quickly learned I could put words to chords, and the rest is history.” Nine years later, Jesse has begun preparing his second album, and first Solo experience. “I’m looking to dive into myself, Jesse Lee, I’m learning how to love, how to be vulnerable, how to open my heart…it's a search for hope and understanding.”

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