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Art rock musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer from South London, Grice Peters (GRICE) has the highest of praise from BBC Radio 6 Music, PROG magazine, The Musician.

His drive towards emotive song craft and passion for manipulating both analogue and digital sounds create a challenging cocktail of art-rock songs interlaced with modernist electronic vibes skilfully underpinned by his passionate vocals.

He has built his reputation with his debut album ‘Propeller’ which has awarded him with acclaim in progressive, art rock circles and the opportunity to collaborate with instrumental and production luminaries including Richard Barbieri (Japan, Porcupine Tree), Steve Jansen (Japan, Exit North), Raphael Ravenscroft (Pink Floyd, Vangelis/Blade Runner), Hossam Ramzy (Peter Gabriel, Led Zeppelin), B J Cole (Elton John, Marc Bolan, Scott Walker) & more.

Awards:

Polarchoral (2022): Best Album Indie Prog Awards (Friday Night Progressive, NY).

‘one thousand birds symphony’: Best Music Feature – Mykonos International Film Awards, Greece, Best Arthouse Short Film – Sipontum Arthouse International Film Festival, Italy, Best Original Music Score: Cine Paris Film Festival, France),

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

‘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. 

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.

https://www.sound-gallery.net/1000-birds-symphony/ 

‘GRICE makes music of exquisite beauty – gorgeously epic’ – BBC Radio 6 Music

‘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

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

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