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Award winning art-rock musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer from South London, Grice Peters (GRICE) has built his reputation since 2012 with his debut album ‘Propeller’ (MPG Awards). His music has has been championed on BBC Radio 6 Music by Tom Robinson and has garnered airplay on radio stations in the UK, Europe & USA.
He has released 6 albums on hungersleep records which have have received highly positive reviews from UK & European press including PROG magazine, iOPages & The Musician.
Polarchoral (2022) was voted Best Album of the Year at the Indie Prog Awards (NY) and ‘one thousand birds symphony’ album and film has amassed a number of international film awards in the Best Original Music Score category.
Grice has been rewarded with critical acclaim in progressive circles and has collaborated with sonic innovator and keyboardist Richard Barbieri (Porcupine Tree, Japan), Steve Jansen (Japan, Exit North), pedal steel guitarist B J Cole, sax legend Raphael Ravenscroft (Baker Street, Pink Floyd), Hossam Ramzy (Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel) and more. GRICE accompanied Richard Barbieri on his ‘Planet and Persona’ tour, has played alongside Banco De Gaia, Public Service Broadcasting and has performed live with Steve Hogarth (Marillion) and Richard Barbieri at the IB Expo in Sweden.
‘GRICE makes music of exquisite beauty – gorgeously epic’ – BBC Radio 6 Music
‘An extraordinary slice of experimental art rock’ – PROG
‘Acoustic rock diamonds’ – The Musician
‘Vocally GRICE inhabits that space that could only be described as that of the modern post-prog milieu. Mixing the intensity of Mark Hollis with a Beatle-esque sweetness.’ Jones is Dying, Chris Jones
COLLABORATIONS & AWARDS
Contributor on Richard Barbieri’s solo album “Planets and Persona”.
Engineer and producer for saxophonist Raphael Ravenscroft (Pink Floyd, Vangelis/Blade Runner, Duffy): Santiago & ‘Forgiveness’ a tribute to singer Gerry Rafferty (Baker Street) featuring award winning choir ‘Tenebrae’.
Co-writer and vocalist on ‘Beyond the Illusion’ album by Italian musician Stefano Panunzi, featuring Tim Bowness (No-Man), Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree, King Crimson, The Pineapple Thief).
Producer ‘ICARUS GIRL’ debut album by Siobhan McCrudden
Propeller’ shortlisted UK album the Year 2013 – MPG Awards
POLARCHORAL: Best Album (2022) – Indie Prog Awards (NY)
‘one thousand birds symphony’:
Best Music Feature – Mykonos International Film Awards (Greece).
Best Arthouse Short Film – Sipontum International Film Festival Italy).
Best Original Music Score – Cine Paris Film Festival (France)
SYNC & MUSIC PUBLISHING
BBC2, BBC Worldwide (William and Kate: A Royal Engagement)
Black Diamond films (Free Spirit, Extreme Sport), MTV, Sky, NETFLIX
‘MICA’ by Ismael Ferroukhi (IFI French Film Festival 2021).
LIVE
Special guest on Tom Robinson’s Saturday Night show (BBC Radio 6 Music) feat. ‘One Thousand Birds’ album
Supported Richard Barbieri ‘Planets & Persona’ mini tour Exeter Phoenix – The Seventh Wave Festival of Electronic Music (Birmingham) – Hoxton Hall (London)
IB Expo – Sweden with Steve Hogarth (Marillion) at the premier performance of ‘Naked’ (Not The Weapon but the Hand) with Richard Barbieri, David Torn & Julie Slick.
Culture Container & DbS Music showcase – Berlin
Oktoberfest: supporting Public Service Broadcasting & Baka Beyond
Analogue to Digital Music Expo – aftershow party
St Steven’s Church, St Michael and All Angels Church
Exeter Phoenix – Alexandrine album launch
Live session on PhonicFM feat. Raphael Rsvenscroft
Live session on BBC Radio Devon with John Govier
Releases
‘A dream of colours and canyons, a ghost dance from the edge of the mountain’. G
MORDANT LAKE is a fictional place captured on salt and silver photographs, inhabited by a lost tribe of songs. A place to heal the broken wings and hide the broken things. A pool of tears where history is reflected. Inspired by all lake pigments, colours and their associated mordants.
The album is dedicated to all tribes who have been (and continue to be) forcibly displaced, and who remain stateless.
Release date: 5.7.2024
Release date: 3rd May 2024.
The song is dedicated to the late and sublimely wistful Karl Wallinger (World Party, The Waterboys) who sadly packed up and flew off from the planet this year.
Described as ‘Early Radiohead. Warm, affectionate and wonderful’ by The Progressive Aspect, KARL was originally written by GRICE whilst enduring Hurricane ‘Karl’ and in residence at Swanston House in deepest darkest Devon in the late 90’s.
Official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJtAsqLWaWA
Best Album – Indie Prog Awards (Friday Night Progressive, NY). Features Richard Barbieri (Japan, Porcupine Tree), Steve Jansen (Japan, Exit North) and Robert Brian (Goldfrapp, Peter Gabriel, Siouxsie Sioux).
“An album of exquisite beauty by an artist of rare refinement” – PROG magazine (Dec, 2022)
“Highly polished and detailed and ultimately, enthralling. Magical and intoxicating – 4.5 glacial harmonics” – PROG ROGUE
“Hypnotizing and spiritually medicating – this may both bruise and soothe the aching heart” – Thomas Szirmay
“Grice travels with true grace in such territories as avant pop, prog rock & art rock” – MLWZ – A Small Lexicon of Great Bands.
“a harmonic and sometimes dissonant conversation between humans and the natural world”
Award winning music score, ’one thousand birds symphony’ is a majestic collection of symphonic compositions and arrangements incorporating original field recordings of exquisite dawn choruses and digitally manipulated birdsong accompanied by an iridescent cast of high profile musicians (Richard Barbieri, Hossam Ramzy) who join the sonic murmuration.
Short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqxokGdGPfo
‘GRICE makes music of exquisite beauty – gorgeously epic’ – BBC Radio 6 Music (Tom Robinson)
‘South Londoner’s sumptuously decorated 3rd album, sometimes redolent of the late Mark Hollis, backed by supremely evocative bass and strings accompaniment and contributions from notable collaborators including former Japan and Porcupine Tree man Richard Barbieri’ – PROG magazine
‘One Thousand Birds’ marks out the further soaring trajectory of a unique art-rock talent’ – From the Margins
‘It’s a dark beautiful thing’ – Exeter Living
Title track trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ83SMBEOxg
Alexandrine is an album of well executed art pop, at complete ease with itself, and therefore benefits from having nothing to prove. Highly recommended. The Progressive Aspect
Alexandrine is an Art Rock gem – GRICE sounds like Grace. – PROG
Extraordinary, beautiful and impressive music with tasteful instrumentation, intoxicating soundscapes, stark pulsating rhythms. NuJazz, folk, new art rock, artificial Pop enter into an idiosyncratic, exciting symbiosis. – Babyblaue
Fascinating, moving, refined work with the benevolent aura of sophisticated pop. – L’evoluzione alternativa del Progressive Rock
Propeller’ shortlisted UK album the Year 2013 – MPG Awards
Title track video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXFlp-rSbCU
UK Art Rocker lifts off with all-star solo debut Classic Rock presents PROG
Many thanks, fabulous album, on 4th repeat play today, marvellous production. Kinda has all the best elements of Talk Talk and Kate Bush – very impressed! Paul Gray (The Damned, Eddie & The Hotrods)
Congratulations on your album Propeller. It’s a beautifully crafted work and the production is amazing.
Great songs as well. A labour of love by the sounds of it. Richard Barbieri (Japan, Porcupine Tree).
Vocally GRICE inhabits that space that could only be described as that of the modern post-prog milieu: mixing the intensity of Mark Hollis or Tim Bowness with a Beatle-esque sweetness. This is highly recommended.
Jones is Dying. Writings on inner culture, Chris Jones
With Propeller
Grice has created a genuinely extraordinary slice of experimental rock. Classic Rock presents PROG
Propeller is a poignant debut of remarkable quality. A gripping and poignant collection of acoustic rock diamonds. Marvellous.
The Musician
A collection of well-crafted songs so deeply intimate and personal that you almost want to ask ‘Should I be hearing this?
Where Music and Cinema converge, Vince Font
Music is art and this is one of the most beautiful, romantic, dramatic, pieces of personally crafted song-writing you will ever hear.
RivieraFM