MUSIC
Phaeder’s musical proliferation spans over 30 years, many styles and eight releases on CD and on-line, TV, Film, collaborations and live performances to standing ovations. Peter is a long-time Buddhist with a profound mastery of the esoteric one voice chord chant, a vocal technique that produces Theta waves and causes entrainment. Over the past five years, and much to the amusement of the Tibetan Lamas, he has married this with his German electronic roots, Flamenco and Jazz. Peter’s music spans from pure acoustic expressions of Flamenco and Jazz overtones to down-right outrageous and gritty electro Avant-garde He enjoys a small global following, stays elusive and keeps his audience surprised… At present Peter works on a series of acoustic compositions.
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KLING KLANG
In a recent conversation this German-born Auckland-based guitarist mentioned an album of his I had forgotten about: it was Kling-Klang (on Ode) and at a guess came from some time in the early-to-mid 90s. His mention of it prompted me to get it out again because I had been very taken with it at the time. It was Haeder in a variety of settings from solo, to duets with Steve Garden on percussion and piano, a trio track adding bassist Bob Shepheard, and finally in a quartet with pianist Phil Broadhurst. Even now the album stands up: Haeder’s guitars and deep ...
LOTUS BEAT
It appears from this album that Drum'n'Bass and Buddhism can make easy bedfellows. This release by German born, NZ based devotee Peter Haeder (Phaeder) places his religion and musical tastes side by side with interesting results (and according to his press release, the amusement of the Buddhist lamas.) Any novelty factor aside, this is a well produced and sonically challenging record. The tastiest track is Swift Tara, where chants fuse naturally into an intense jungle beat. With an organic mix of Asian drumming and Tibetan rhythms fused together by chant-based deep throat singing, he has produced a collection of Drum'n'Bass, techno ...
EMERALD
On Emerald Phaeder pulls up a rack of mostly acoustic guitars and sits down for some fire-side melodies which are as enchanting as they are interesting. We rarely get customer comments about any of the music we play, and this CD attracted the most comments of any CD I have played. EVER. This album is a joyful mix of tracks, that shows that the album description, for once, is accurate and not just marketing hype. All tracks were enjoyed as an ambient music for the shop that was never distracting, and just added to the relaxed atmosphere we have in the ...
FIRE CIRCLE
Solo guitar work alternates with performances of vocal chanting and collaborations with electric improvisational groups Nexus and Theta State. In 1992 Peter formed his own group, Fire-Circle, which combines jazz and flamenco on an eastern rhythmic base. ‘Q’ was originally commissioned by Gitbox Rebellion, and composed in Robert Fripp's new tuning, which was designed to allow greater exploration of the guitar's musical range. The only thing criticis and fans be-mourned alike was the fact that Fire Circle never got released on CD...
EFJ
A long-time Buddhist, Phaeder has mastered deep voice singing, the esoteric one voice chord chant, now taught at just two monasteries in the world. To the amusement of the Tibetan Lamas, he has married this skill with his German electronic roots - plus Flamenco guitar and jazz. EFJ tears down the conventions of separation of the organic and the synthetic and combines it into perfection...
INCURSIONS
Incursions [into the Bardo] is a pretty intense techno-trance collection of songs i wrote after the death of my Guru, the late Geshe Palden Tsering. An old Trancer friend sent me 20 GB of loops and samples for the album to use and it became clear what shape the material had to take. Each track is a complete journey into the intermediate state after death, consensually called Bardo in Tibetan Buddhism, although all states are intermediate and therefor Bardos, like dreaming, wake state etc... There are a lot of psycho acoustic effects in these tracks, like instruments appearing spatially behind or ...
HAUNEBU
Haunebu is four track EP of hard techno based on four journeys in Alien crafts. In the late 80s Phaeder wrote a lot of music based on the Alien phenomenon. One cluster of creative output correlated with the inception of the concept for a book rooted in the Alien phenomenon. All tracks on the EP ares sonic representations of travel experiences in Alien craft, primarily Zeta Reticulli craft... While Phaeder makes no claims of having had any encounters and denies any allegations of having contact with Channels like Bashaar, there is strong evidence in these compositions to the contrary. There is a ...
BONUS
The bonus page obviously contains bonus tracks... Enjoy Phaeder Play "Tuareg" [jwplayer config="bonus" mediaid="3284"] Download "Tuareg" 320MBpS MP3 [download id="33"]
SINGULARITY
Phaeder takes us on a shamanistic journey through the labyrinth of sonic reality, always reminding us, that the conventional and the sublime are only a hair’s breadth apart. Singularity is a beautiful, accessible contemplation on the wonders of sacred sound. It serves as healing music, relaxation or as a medium for the serious meditator. Singularity is an outstanding album of unsurpassed musical depth and spiritual power from an authentic practitioner on the pinnacle of his craft.
