Peter Adams

. . . playful but foreboding, majestic but quirky, and always infectious.
- NPR, All Songs Considered

• Fifteen Fires in the Filament Eve (2013)
• Songs For Modern Dance (2010)
• I Woke With Planets In My Face (2008)
• The Spiral Eyes (2005)

Classically trained and unconfined by genre, Peter is a composer, producer, violinist, guitarist, and singer. He released his debut album, The Spiral Eyes, in 2005 to critical acclaim. The album, described by Magnet as “classically influenced and yet tethered to nothing but his own fevered imagination,” was written, performed, and produced entirely by Peter. Since then, Peter has released several more albums - I Woke With Planets In My Face (2008), Songs For Modern Dance (2010) - as well as producing works for film, theater, television, and dance. His most recent release is Fifteen Fires in the Filament Eve.

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Fifteen Fires in the Filament Eve

• 2013
• 62 minutes

Adams’ music suggests something of mythic proportions is unfolding.
- David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer

A collection of both new and old, featuring my most recent recordings as well as my oldest, and everything in between.

Songs For Modern Dance

• 2010
• 29 minutes

From its first notes, it invests the dance with a fable-like quality, a sense that something momentous – maybe even magical – is about to unfold.
- David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer

A collection of two EPs, ‘Dances For Heather’ and ‘I Am A Strange Loop,’ comprising music I created for the Cincinnati Ballet in 2009 and 2010 for their New Works program.

I Woke With Planets In My Face

• 2008
• 50 minutes

With all the drama of an ethereal movie soundtrack, Adams' songs brilliantly merge his classical training (he started playing the violin at age three) and the inevitable teen-punk backlash. On his latest, I Woke With Planets in My Face, the hyperliterate Adams composes folksy pop tunes solo and translates them into full-band symphonies.
- Kari Wethington, Spin

Wandering through a floating jungle with a string band and stumbling onto a ruined city of waterlogged bass drums, mossy chord organs, and a tribe of melodicas dancing to a phonograph of Bela Bartok and Tom Waits playing Sgt. Pepper with kazoos.

The Spiral Eyes

• 2005
• 45 minutes

. . . like viewing a classic-rock mosaic through kaleidoscope eyes. The album's dozen tracks include moments of Radiohead's exquisitely crafted chamber angst, Jeff Magnum's chemically-altered, wide-eyed wonder, Jeff Buckley's angelic introspection and the Flaming Lips' finest flights of orchestral fancy.
- Corey duBrowa, Magnet

Eleven tracks of melodious, neo-psychadelic pop with generous servings of stringed instruments.