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Peter Piek is the consummate artist
Peter Piek is the consummate artist. A brilliant guitarist, singer/songwriter and painter from Leipzig, Peter's work remains bold and distinct across a broad range of media. He's interested in what he calls "the moment of greeting", and the "emptiness that exists between artist and audience at that moment". In Buddhist philosophy emptiness connotes a wide range of happy meanings. These include clarity, connection, selflessness and transcendence. Peter has painted hundreds of self portraits, on canvas and on record, yet the work is somehow never self-absorbed. You get the sense, in his music and art, that he's introducing himself to you, again and again, re-invigorating the moment with a fresh connection. Peter Piek is a prolific performer and painter who keeps himself busy with constant touring in europe and america, and with the relentless creation of new art.
Cliff Rawson, New York City

Switch Your Kleenex and suede jackets.
Peter Piek is just extraordinary. He is a singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, lyricist and painter. In 2007 he played over 100 concerts in Germany. Time for an album to prove himself in the field of popular music. Therefor he brings all necessary attributes: enduringness, dramaturgy, impulsive creativity and spontaneity. His lyrics owe a touching melancholy, without abdicating great euphoria. In many songs of 'Say hello to Peter Piek' he copes personal experiences, posivite experiences and defeats. His music shows great songwriter potential. Peter Piek is rock, is guitar, is indie. Following the motion of 60s art -from Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan or painters like Ari Fuchs or Max Pechstein- his work states in music and painting also something sketchy, an unclouded & fresh move. A startling debut, that unites rock, beat & art in an inspiring way. Switch Your Kleenex and suede jackets.
Britta Hamann, Ausfahrt MV, 11/2007

Peter Piek is a German painter, author, and songwriter.
(mt/tg) Peter Piek did not exist between 2001 and 2006 ? this is what his self-written biography tells us. There used to be several Peters. ?Split into multiple partial personalities? as he remarks it laconically. He abandonded this state in 2006 when he ?reunited the remaining partial personalities?. During this time he was studying Fine Art and Painting, when founded the artist group Malfront, wrote two books about his vision of painting. His quintessence: Painting just starts primarily with painting! Critics get rather complicated when they talk about Peter Piek as painter, using words like ?Being?, the ?Physically compound consistency of the canvas? and ?the rhythmic breathing? which is ?synthesised? ?into an interwoven interaction.? One stereotype is not enough. In Biel (Switzerland) however, Peter Piek performes at a concert, since he is actually a songwriter and multi-instrument player, as well. He may have merged his partial personalities into one, but for artists like Peter Piek one art form is not enough for him to articulate. Therefore, his ?Say Yes To Peter Piek? tour stops on Thursday at AJZ Gaskessel in Biel. If you try describe Peter Piek?s music, you might classify it as Independent Rock, although it would hardly fit as this is not quite correct. The term Pop would not come close to his ambition for art, as his Songs are too ecclectic and complex. Peter Piek?s voice is unusual. He sings in a high pitch, but not in head voice. It sounds similiar to Neil Young and Sigur Ros. The shows are always intensive, though. In front of a full club, the nearly 6.5 feet frontman Peter Piek screams out his love to life, throws himself with his guitar in sheer ecstasy to the ground using distorted chords to sob his weltschmerz through the sound system. Piek?s archetypes must be Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Pearl Jam, and the Smashing Pumpkins. Featuring his band the Colours, Peter Piek is an artist who tries to merge painting and music. His band is named The Colours and a fan wrote about his last album ?Say Hello To Peter Piek? ?Everybody who knows his paintings thinks: They are like music. Contrariwuse, you could suppose his music is like colourful paintings. There?s a colourful evening waiting on us in Biel. It remains to hope that Peter Piek still continues unifying his partial personalities.
Hundes Bieler Tagesblatt (CH) 11.Nov.20008

Damn great paintings!
Peter Piek is a painter. Most of his paintings depend on the situation like a continuation of nice coincidences, colour patterns and structures that are spontanuous statements which express the love of life. "Damn great paintings" as he points it. You see a garden designed by drawings and paintings with rhythmic and melodious patterns. As if someone were dancing across the screens and dares a self portrait as rockstar. It is like an image from a dream without irony, in a frank and casual manner. Hence, the characters between the colourful paintings become a provocation more than ever. This is what they are supposed to be: a stop sign that asks the observer to stop. The fifth square shows the word Spiegel, that means mirror. No it is not about the German magazine Der Spiegel. This square painting is about a mirror, where the observer shall understand himself and connect himself to the symbols of power. Perhaps, then there are some that watch the actual paintings of Peter Piek from a new perspective and get an impression of what opposes each form of power: the free expression of life.
Dr. Ina Gille, art historian, Leipzig 5/2005 (translation: PeterFischer)

Peter Piek live!
Eveyone who ever saw Peter Piek live knows the endorphin soaring flights which undilated an evening with Peter Piek brings. The beat of the drums animate head, feets and hands. The funky basslines creates a pleasant oscillate feel in the stomach region. The virtuosic guitar riffs make a proffesional air guitar player out of every normal listener and the voice bewitches the senses. A mixture from Pop, Rock and Funk with catchy melodies and a dash of critical melancholie.