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First Full Album Out 15th March!

My first full album is out on the 15th of March. It's called 'Ceol Agus Grá' which means music and love in Gaelic. I'm so excited to share this with you and sing the songs with you all at the live shows. 

May22

Peter Deaves @ L'Archipel

L'Archipel, Paris

Des rives du fleuve Mersey aux forêts franciliennes, la trajectoire atypique de Peter Deaves traverse Ceol Agus Grá (« Musique et amour en gaélique), son premier album. Le singer-songwriter et compositeur-interprète originaire de Liverpool célèbre « d’anciennes formes de vie » et la nostalgie de la jeunesse et des amours perdues dans un recueil folk-pop-country éclairé par une foisonnante instrumentation live (lapsteel, contrebasse, mandolines, banjos, bugle, flûtes…) et la chaleur analogique des amplis à lampes. Proche des timbres amples et profonds de Townes Van Zandt et Ricky Nelson, la voix de Peter Deaves est l’autre fil conducteur d’un album où viennent également se glisser les ombres des Beatles (« Nowhere Boy »), de Leonard Cohen et Elliott Smith (« Quarter Past ») et de Neutral Milk Hotel et Radiohead dans l’éclatante compression Britpop de « Gasoline ».

Ceol Agus Grá: Vinyl
  • Ceol Agus Grá: Vinyl

Ceol Agus Grá: Vinyl

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From the banks of the River Mersey to the forest outside Paris, the atypical trajectory of Peter Deaves brings you Ceol Agus Grá (“Music and love in Gaelic), his first album. The singer-songwriter from Liverpool celebrates “old forms of life” and the beauty of nostalgia illuminated by abundant live instrumentation (lapsteel, double bass, mandolins

From the banks of the River Mersey to the forest outside Paris, the atypical trajectory of Peter Deaves brings you Ceol Agus Grá (“Music and love in Gaelic), his first album. The singer-songwriter from Liverpool celebrates “old forms of life” and the beauty of nostalgia illuminated by abundant live instrumentation (lapsteel, double bass, mandolins , banjos, flugelhorns, flutes, etc.) and the analog warmth of tube amps.

Close to the broad and deep tones of Townes Van Zandt and Ricky Nelson, the voice of Peter Deaves is a common thread of an album where shadows of the Beatles (“Nowhere Boy”), Leonard Cohen and Elliott Smith also creep in (“Quarter Past”). Hat-tips also to Johnny Cash (“The Long Green River”) and Neutral Milk Hotel and Radiohead in the brilliant Britpop compression of “Gasoline”, Blaze Foley’s longing fingerpicking (“Liverpool”) as well as the celebratory raucousness of the Pogues (Bury Me Under The Mersey”)

Sensitive and introspective, Ceol Agus Grá is an album of solemn beauty, as well as an intense celebration of life and love. It can have you crying into your beer at the bar, or dancing on the tables, or both.

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