Jazz is feel, vibe, passion and rhythm with no  rules, nor limitations...wherever your heart takes you!

What is Jazz?

An exploration into the sound of Trip-Hop, with an Acid Jazz twang!

Now Is Not The Time

Less is more. Pure. Cool.

What's cooler than Michel Martineau’s Clarinet(s) in a funky, clean format we call “Cool Cucumber” – a Nu Jazz treat. Feel me? Dig it!

Music: Peter Bennborn 
Clarinets: Michel Martineau 
All other instruments: Peter Bennborn 
Mixed & Mastered: Peter Bennborn

Cool Cucumber (feat. Michel Martineau)

Another foray into the outer edges of Nu-Jazz. If you're like me you'll get into the funky flow, feelin' good!

Props to Magnus, @the-ewi-master, for inspiring me!

SFX courtesy of http://www.freesfx.co.uk/!

Nightflight To Tokyo

What is cool?

Miles Davis was cool. His classic "So What" was very cool. Ronny Jordan's acid jazz take on Miles' "So What" was very cool indeed. 

I like cool!

As "Take Five" inspired me to do "Take Six", "So What" inspired me to do "That's What". Same logic applies; an outline with lots of room for manouvering, contact a bunch of awesome musicians, see what they come up with and blend and stir everything into a delightfully cool cocktail. Swing it ;-)! 

"That's What" this is!

Music: Peter Bennborn

The cool cats:
Drums: Walter Kelleher (http://www.cooldrumtracks.com)
Bass: Vlad Josephson (https://soundcloud.com/vladaroo)
Lead guitar: Derek Cornett (https://soundcloud.com/derek-cornett)
Comp guitar: Daniele Turani (https://soundcloud.com/danieleturani)
Saxophones: Joe Drzewiecki (@jomama-2)
Keys/Synths: Peter Bennborn

Mixed & Mastered: Peter Bennborn 

Buy on iTunes

That's What (ft. Derek Cornett, Joe Drzewiecki, Daniele Turani, Vlad Josephson & Walter Kelleher)

If you, like me, love the jazzy, funky music of L.A./West Coast - you're in for a treat. Have a great summer!

Music: Peter Bennborn

Drums: Walter Kelleher (www.cooldrumtracks.com)
Bass: Vlad Josephson (@vladaroo)
Guitars: Daniele Turani (@danieleturani)
EWI: Magnus Jansson (@the-ewi-master)
Keys/Synths: Peter Bennborn

Mixed & Mastered: Peter Bennborn

Sunset Groove (ft. Magnus Jansson, Daniele Turani, Vlad Josephson & Walter Kelleher)

...or keep the lights on....

Getting back to the essence of what I like; a funky, sexy and elegant interaction between keys, bass & drums with some lazy sensuous sounds floating above - definitely suitable for passion. Enjoy!

Composed, played & produced by Peter Bennborn.


In The Dark

Blue Passion: "A man and a woman staring out in the moonlit blue darkness, on the deck overlooking the ocean, the party behind them. They haven't spoken , hardly glanced at each other but they know the night belongs to them."

Alas, the somewhat naive, youthful vision I had, making this track many years ago; giving Yann the opportunity to go make some great lyrics, Rudi to bring his jazzy side, Daniele to do his funk and introducing a new collaborative super combo; Manuel Muzzu on bass and Manuel Muzzu on drums - you really bring it.   

Enjoy a naive romantic dream together with us ;-)!

Music: Peter Bennborn
Lyrics: Yann Vienne

Vocals: Rudi Lockefeir (https://soundcloud.com/ruud-lockefeir)
Guitars: Daniele Turani (https://soundcloud.com/danieleturani)
Bass: Manuel Muzzu (www.manuelmuzzu.com)
Drums: Manuel Muzzu (www.manuelmuzzu.com)
Keys/Synths: Peter Bennborn

Mixed & Mastered: Peter Bennborn 

Lyrics:

I know I don't know you
Can't see, your eyes are lost in blue
Black waves are rolling out
Flashes of us touching about
Light music far away
But I don't feel like keeping track
here and gone in a way
My blues is goin' forth and back...
Two out of time...
Two out of the blue
I look up at the stars,
As if all about to explode
Running along the scars
Black and blue we laid down in code
Yet I believe I might
Find something true here for a change
Something so outta sight
Blue angel coming down, so strange
Two out of time
Two out of the blue
Wait... oh, colour me now blind, give me a clue
Wait... I'm out of my mind, looking anew
Wait... I will reach for the sign, go with the view,
Wait... let's get outta line, you and me too...
I can hear a chime
We might be on time
Ready for no future
No final answer

The moon is blue but I don't feel like we've already met,
Yet I'm more than inclined, more than inclined to take a bet
Vision of darkened room, image of your hands on my skin,
Now I know very soon, we'll lock ourselves in silent din,
Two out of time
Two out of the blue
Wait... we will colour the night, give me my cue
Wait... I sense it will be right for me and you,
Wait... we're suspended in time, forever do, 
Please, wait... let us come out and shine: kill the grey too...
Who did see us leave, now? Who, when we flew?
Who would have believed how? Lost into the blue...

Blue Passion (feat. Rudi Lockefeir, Daniele Turani, Manuel Muzzu & Yann Vienne)

Floating away in dreams and desires of the night!
Kosmee is a force of nature; raw, sensual and alluring - cosmic, female power. 
Enjoy!
Music: Peter Bennborn
Vocal melody & vocals: Noemie Costa (@kosmi-1)
All instruments: Peter Bennborn
Mixed & Mastered: Peter Bennborn

Red Paris 3 a.m. (Bennborn/Kosmee Project)

Bring the light to push away the dark...

In light of the recent events; the murder of innocent people, attacks on freedom of expression in the name of religion, one needs to keep a steady course; away from fundamentalism, prejudice and ignorance. We need to bring the light to those that are indiscriminate and indoctrinated. Man's nature might always have a place for hatred, light and dark dependent on each other, but let's keep reason alight to keep darkness suppressed.

"Je suis Charlie"

Music: Noemie Costa & Peter Bennborn
Vocals: Noemie Costa (https://soundcloud.com/kosmi-1)
Mixed & Mastered: Peter Bennborn & Noemie Costa

Light Keeper (Bennborn/Kosmee Project)

Magic occurs when souls meet across distances and connect.
Bonds arise and the line between virtual and real gets blurred.
Noemie, Michel, Daniele & Manuel - we are magic.

Music: Noémie Costa & Peter Bennborn

Vocals: Noémie Costa (https://soundcloud.com/kosmi-1)
Clarinet: Michel Martineau (https://soundcloud.com/michel-martineau)
Guitar: Daniele Turani (https://soundcloud.com/danieleturani)
Keys: Peter Bennborn
Bass & Drums: Manuel Muzzu (www.manuelmuzzu.com)

Mixed & Mastered by Peter Bennborn & Noémie Costa 

Find a Way (Bennborn/Kosmee ft. Michel Martineau, Daniele Turani & Manuel Muzzu)

What keeps us together? Let Noémie's mesmerizing vocals guide you on an inspired journey towards an answer. 

Music: Noémie Costa & Peter Bennborn 

Vocals: Noémie Costa (https://soundcloud.com/kosmi-1)
All instruments: Peter Bennborn

Mixed & Mastered by Peter Bennborn & Noémie Costa 


Together As One (Bennborn/Kosmee Project)

Escapade in the Afternoon

It's a true honor to realize visions, the potential of an idea, through collaborations, with people from near and afar sharing the same passion - in this case, music.

I am so grateful for having the opportunity and means to pursue my musical dreams; there's really no excuse for me not to "Reach Higher", but my own imaginary limitations.

Listen to these guys go epic in between symphonic rock, pop, jazz, fusion (yes, I couldn't care less about labeling my music) in 6/8ths, originally inspired by a Norwegian progressive rock track and Pat Metheny Band and ended up...somewhere Florian, Manuel, Walter and Noemie took me - on an inspired journey. 

The song is my idea, but it's truly our song. Enjoy!

Music: Peter Bennborn

Guitars: Florian Mueller (@flohbold)
Bass: Manuel Muzzu (www.manuelmuzzu.com)
Drums: Walter Kelleher (www.cooldrumtracks.com)
Keys/synths: Peter Bennborn
Vocals: Noémie Costa (@kosmi-1)

Mixed & Mastered by Peter Bennborn

Listen on Spotify

Reach Higher (ft. Florian Mueller, Manuel Muzzu, Walter Kelleher & Kosmee)

Music heals, enforcing a positive sentiment, chasing away dreary thoughts. Let this music help you along the way, fighting despair and disease.

Music: Michel Martineau (https://soundcloud.com/michel-martineau)
Lyrics: Yann Vienne (@non-sapiens)
Produced by: Peter Bennborn

Vocals: Kosmee (@kosmi-1)
Clarinet: Michel Martineau (@michel-martineau)
Violins: Charlotte Martineau
Vibes: Coco G. Diez (@cocogdiez)
Guitars: Florian Mueller (@flohbold)
Keys/synths: Peter Bennborn
Bass: Manuel Muzzu (@manuel-muzzu)
Drums: Manuel Muzzu (@manuel-muzzu)

Michel's liner notes:

"The lyrics of this song are MAGIC and this song is played by a bunch magicians. This song has the capacity to heal your soul and any serious chronic disease because it ask to your little internal voice (that we all have) to be positive in your healing process. Yann did a fantastic poem for my song.

PRESCRIPTION

Who should listen this song?
Everybody, (1 to 99 years old) but especially people that have a serious sickness or depression. You are in good health? Great, then it is a great opportunity for you to make other get the benefit of this song!

How to use it.
We all know somebody in this situation, I would recommend that they listen this song once a week or when needed… meaning when they don’t feel good. If they don’t have a sound system, just reading the text will do the job…

Clinical proven result
I know that it works well because I did listen and will listen this song at the beginning and the end of chemo treatment and I always feel better during and after the treatment."

LYRICS

When I feel drained, almost drowned,
Flashes of pain all around,
When life is heavy with my many fears
I shut my eyes: I'm all ears

Take in your voice like a light
Like a force new and true
Like the stories you tell to
This child every night
Drunk on your sound I will fight
All the hurt, knowing you
Will be here through and through
Giving me more than might

Voice like a god setting fire
To grey above, lift me higher
Make me so light I will fly on the air
Note on the score without scare

Sweet magic going through me
Soft hands on this here old tree
Spring water fresh on my lips like a kiss
Angel dear your voice is bliss

Bathe me in honey and milk,
Soothe me like satin and silk,
Drive out the cold emptiness of despair,
Sing, Love, and make it all fair...

Take in your voice like a light
Like a force new and true
Like the stories you tell to
This child every night
Drunk on your sound I will fight
All the hurt, knowing you
Will be here through and through
Giving me more than might

Voice like a god setting fire
To grey above, lift me higher
Make me so light I will fly on the air
Note on the score without scare

Solo de clarinette

Voice is inside, swings and sways,
Showing me so many ways,
So many days, weeks and years to be filled
Music and joy to distill,

This voice is yours and mine too,
People and places, oh, do
Let me sing with you the beauty around
Newly found here in our sound

Take in your voice like a light
Like a force new and true
Like the stories you tell to
This child every night
Drunk on your sound I will fight
All the hurt, knowing you
Will be here through and through
Giving me more than might

When I feel drained, almost drowned,
Flashes of pain all around,
When life is heavy with my many fears
I shut my eyes: I'm all ears

Healing Voice (Michel Martineau with daughter & friends)

For me the sound of "West Coast" is a celebration of life; of joy and passion. It makes you look good, behind those sunglasses, driving your convertible in the setting sun, from L.A. to San Francisco on Highway 1 ;-)! 

Delusions of grandeur aside, I feel that my musical companions and I have reached yet another level of meshing our sounds and styles together effortlessly into the flow of music. Thus I am really proud to present "Solitude in Motion" to you all. Enjoy ;-)!

Music: Peter Bennborn

Guitar: Derek Cornett (https://soundcloud.com/derek-cornett)
Sax: Joe Drzewiecki (https://soundcloud.com/jomama-2)
Bass: Manuel Muzzu (www.manuelmuzzu.com)
Drums: Walter Kelleher (www.cooldrumtracks.com)
Keys/synths: Peter Bennborn

Mixed & Mastered by Peter Bennborn

Solitude in Motion (ft. Derek Cornett, Joe Drzewiecki, Manuel Muzzu & Walter Kelleher)

Time for some hard-hitting jazz funk fusion that everybody loves to hate, and I couldn't care less ;-)! Take it or leave it.  Love it. Love my collaborators temperaments, fusing it together into a completely original fresh breath of air. 

Magnus and I started with a vision of Miles Davis asphalt funk - in a "Single in New York" state of mind. Mirko's intricate and elegant bass flew us from New York to Zurich, escorted to a classy lounge. Michael's energetic, virtuoso guitar performance kept us travelling to...well, up to you, listener, whether you wanna reside in NY, Zurich or whatever place, and with whomever you fancy...

Music: Peter Bennborn

Keys and drum loops: Peter Bennborn
EWI: Magnus Jansson (https://soundcloud.com/the-ewi-master)
Bass: Mirko Borach (https://soundcloud.com/stringburner)
Guitar: Michael Orzek (https://soundcloud.com/lando-orz)

Mixed & Mastered: Peter Bennborn

Senator Lounge Escort (ft. Magnus Jansson, Mirko Borach & Michael Orzek)

"Keep on, don’t look back, hold on to this love..."

First, long awaited collaboration with Vocalatti, and her sultry vocals - a great performance indeed, but also a tribute to her very poignant lyrics - take them in.

Then, Derek Cornett a.k.a "Larry Carlton/Earl Klugh/George Benson" (your choice) delivers the smoothest, laid back guitar imaginable.

Magnus, you're zooming in on the appropriate sentiment with aplomb, your EWI always a pleasure to listen to.

And then our own "Paulinho da Costa", multi-talented MoodyMo adding the final layer on the cake with his subtle and stylish percussion.

From vision to fruition, thanks to the ever-awesome collaborators from all over the world; as always no boundaries in the world of music.

I thank you all.

Concept: Peter Bennborn & Magnus Jansson
Music: Peter Bennborn
Lyrics: Vocalatti

Vocals: Vocalatti (@vocalatti)
Guitar: Derek Cornett (@derek-cornett)
EWI: Magnus Jansson (@the-ewi-master)
Percussion: MoodyMo (@moodymo)
Rhodes/keys/synths/drum & bass programming: Peter Bennborn

Mixed & Mastered: Peter Bennborn

Lyrics:

Is it time for us
To take just what we had
And walk away just as friends
It seems to me that every time
That we said goodbye
All that sadness in your eyes

Fate can be so cruel
When others break the rules
No one gets another chance
I find it hard to think that
You're never coming back
All is wasted what we had

Chorus

Keep on
Don’t look back
Hold on to this love
That we already had and
Try to start again
Let this love begin
And never let it end

Looking back to when
Our feelings had to end
Was the last thing on my mind
I wanted to always stay here
So you and I
Could find peace within our lives

Nothing stays the same
Two people are to blame
For changing other people’s lives
If I knew how
I would have stayed in that fairytale
Feeling free and so alive

Chorus

Move on start a new
You’ll forget these things
That life has put us through
And try to love again
You'll remember that
You and I were friends

Keep On (ft. Vocalatti, Derek Cornett, Magnus Jansson & MoodyMo)

Talk Dirty

This track is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/peterbennborn

All instruments, mixed and mastered by Peter Bennborn

Enjoy!

Hang Up

Piano is my instrument, inspired by the world. Sounds like whatever I like, intent on a cool vibe, often somewhere in between Swedish melancholy and Brazilian bittersweetness... 

Peter Bennborn Project is a diverse musical experience ranging from romantic piano ballads to alternative indie metal rock and everything in between, but for country and reggae so far...

The music is either performed alone or in worldwide collaborations, wherever the appropriate musician for the task is located - no limitations and no limits in a borderless world... 

SoundCloud collaborators (from Sweden, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, USA, Cuba, South Africa, Dubai, India, Philippines, Australia):
Vocals; https://soundcloud.com/michelle-yaneza, https://soundcloud.com/neisy-wilson, https://soundcloud.com/jogoldie, https://soundcloud.com/vapmok, https://soundcloud.com/nazneen-1, https://soundcloud.com/just-andre, https://soundcloud.com/kosmi-1, https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik, https://soundcloud.com/michael-obadja, https://soundcloud.com/markexander, https://soundcloud.com/vocalatti, https://soundcloud.com/steveferguson, https://soundcloud.com/vocalatti, https://soundcloud.com/ruud-lockefeir, https://soundcloud.com/padruna
Drums; https://soundcloud.com/walter-w-kelleher, https://soundcloud.com/powerhell, https://soundcloud.com/manuel-muzzu, https://soundcloud.com/moodymo
Bass; https://soundcloud.com/jonnytrobrobass, https://soundcloud.com/vladaroo, https://soundcloud.com/manuel-muzzu, https://soundcloud.com/stringburner
Guitars; https://soundcloud.com/danieleturani, https://soundcloud.com/flohbold, https://soundcloud.com/raphaelgtr, https://soundcloud.com/single_espresso, https://soundcloud.com/jerry-kramskoy-1, https://soundcloud.com/lando-orz, https://soundcloud.com/derek-cornett, https://soundcloud.com/robertdahlstrom, https://soundcloud.com/danarchx
Horns; https://soundcloud.com/dave-mckeown, https://soundcloud.com/waynemorley, https://soundcloud.com/michel-martineau, https://soundcloud.com/jomama-2, https://soundcloud.com/the-ewi-master
Vibraphone: https://soundcloud.com/cocogdiez
Keys; https://soundcloud.com/martinmusic-1, https://soundcloud.com/balammusic, https://soundcloud.com/benjamin_meilink, https://soundcloud.com/johan-rigner
Remix/Drum Programming; https://soundcloud.com/mixed_meta4
Lyrics; https://soundcloud.com/jaime0223, https://soundcloud.com/non-sapiens

https://soundcloud.com/bitbybeat

Enjoy!

Influences: Acid Jazz, Bossa Nova/Latin, Classical; Early inspirations; Satie, Debussy, Ravel, Rachmaninov, Narada Michael Walden, Level 42, Ultravox, Incognito, Shakatak, George Duke, Stanley Clarke, Jay Graydon/David Foster, Quincy Jones