Peter Daltrey
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Peter James Daltrey is a British
musician
. He has been lead singer and chief songwriter
for the bands Kaleidoscope
and Fairfield Parlour. He is also a solo
artist.
After the demise of the bands, Daltrey concentrated on his artwork, which he sells through his "Demographic Online" company, and his solo recording projects. His first album, Dream On (Voiceprint VP182), was released on the British Voiceprint
label in 1995, followed by two albums released in Japan
: English Roses (Evangel EV001-1995) and When We Were Indians (Evangel EV003 - 1996).
In 1997, Daltrey worked with Universal Records
on the compilation album
, Dive into Yesterday (Fontana
534003-02), a collection of tracks from Kaleidoscope's two 1960s albums. The band re-emerged from obscurity with reissues of their albums, beginning in 1987; their "lost" double concept album
, White Faced Lady
(UFO BFTP 001) was released in 1991.
In 1997 Daltrey was invited by the Dutch
composer
and instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen
(Ayreon
) to work with him on his double concept album, Into the Electric Castle
. Daltrey wrote and read the narration for the entire album. He also contributed two titles on the album (Transmission
TM-014 International 1998). In 2005, he sang on the re-release of Ayreon's first album, The Final Experiment
, providing lead vocals for an acoustic version of "Nature's Dance".
A fan of Clifford Ward, Daltrey was guest of honour at an October 1998 convention where he delivered a speech of appreciation.
Blueprint Records released a collection of Daltrey's best solo work in 1999 on Candy: The Best of Peter Daltrey (Blueprint BP304CD.) The turn of the century saw the release of Daltrey's album, Tambourine Days (Chelsea Records CDCR 000110) with the title track looking back at his earlier career, and the many friends who had shared that long frustrating road.
In 2000, Daltrey began a collaboration
with the New Orleans
-based singer-songwriter, Damien Youth. Their first album, Nevergreen (Chelsea Records CDCR 002110) was released that year. This was followed by two more solo albums, Heroine (Chelsea Records CDCR 100110) in 2001 and The Last Detail (Chelsea Records CDCR 209010) in September 2002. The collaboration with Youth continued in November 2002 with the release of their second album, Tattoo (Chelsea Records CDCR 201110). Two months later Daltrey's first solo single was released on Earworm Records
, "(Love Song) For Annie" / "Gypsy Gypsy" (with Damien Youth) (Earworm Records).
In April 2003, after the discovery of some rare Kaleidoscope acetate disc
s the band authorised their release, Kaleidoscope - The Sidekicks Sessions (CD Alchemy). In September BBC
recordings were released, Please Listen to the Pictures (Circle Records
CPWL/CPWC 104), its cover art featuring many photograph
s and clipping
s from Daltrey's extensive band archive
. The following month he released Pittsburg Warhola (Chelsea Records CDCR 300110) under the nom de plume Link Bekka. He and Youth then formed The Morning Set band, and released their first album, The Morning Set, at the end of 2006.
In 2007, Link Bekka, released two more albums: The Madness of King Bekka (Chelsea Records CDCR 707010) and Saharaville (Chelsea Records CDCR 709010). In 2009, Link Bekka collaborated with the saxophonist, Derek G Head for the album, Jacks Town an appreciation of the work of Jack Kerouac
.
Daltrey continues to record and creates his artwork which he sells through his companies, ArtBeat and Demographic Online. Upcoming projects include contributions to a pictorial book on the Isle of Wight Festival 1970
, together with a TV documentary of the event. His son, Olly, was involved in The Fog Band
from 2000-2006.
United Kingdom
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musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
. He has been lead singer and chief songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
for the bands Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope (UK band)
Kaleidoscope were an English psychedelic rock band that were active between 1967 and 1968. The band's songs were combining the elements of psychedelia with remarkable lyrics...
and Fairfield Parlour. He is also a solo
Solo (music)
In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...
artist.
After the demise of the bands, Daltrey concentrated on his artwork, which he sells through his "Demographic Online" company, and his solo recording projects. His first album, Dream On (Voiceprint VP182), was released on the British Voiceprint
Voiceprint
Voiceprint can refer to the spectrogram of a voice. More specific uses include:* VoicePrint, Canada's broadcast reading service* Voiceprint Records, an English record label* The stored template used to identify a person via their voice in Speaker recognition...
label in 1995, followed by two albums released in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
: English Roses (Evangel EV001-1995) and When We Were Indians (Evangel EV003 - 1996).
In 1997, Daltrey worked with Universal Records
Universal Records
Universal Records was a record label owned by Universal Music Group, and it is now owned by Manny Patino and Michael Jackson, and operated as part of the Universal Motown Republic Group.-History:...
on the compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
, Dive into Yesterday (Fontana
Fontana Records
Fontana Records is a record label which was started in the 1950s as a subsidiary of the Dutch Philips Records; when Philips restructured its music operations it dropped Fontana in favor of Vertigo Records. In the seventies PolyGram acquired the dormant label....
534003-02), a collection of tracks from Kaleidoscope's two 1960s albums. The band re-emerged from obscurity with reissues of their albums, beginning in 1987; their "lost" double concept album
Concept album
In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...
, White Faced Lady
White Faced Lady
White Faced Lady is an album by UK band Kaleidoscope . It is a concept album that tells the story of a pale-skinned girl named Angel, from her troubled youth to her sudden rise to fame as a movie star to her tragic decline and untimely death...
(UFO BFTP 001) was released in 1991.
In 1997 Daltrey was invited by the Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen
Arjen Anthony Lucassen
Arjen Anthony "Oswold Jr." Lucassen is a progressive metal/rock composer, singer and musician from the Netherlands, best known for his long-running progressive opera project titled Ayreon....
(Ayreon
Ayreon
Ayreon is a project by Dutch composer and musician Arjen Anthony Lucassen.Ayreon's musical style derives mostly from heavy metal and progressive rock, but combines them with genres like folk, classical and electronica...
) to work with him on his double concept album, Into the Electric Castle
Into the Electric Castle
Into the Electric Castle is a progressive metal two-disc album released in 1998 by Dutch multi-instrumentalist Arjen A. Lucassen. It is the third album of his Ayreon project....
. Daltrey wrote and read the narration for the entire album. He also contributed two titles on the album (Transmission
Transmission Communications
Transmission Communications is an independent record label based in Brisbane, Australia. The label focusses on production and performance of electronic music; including techno, industrial, synthpop, experimental, and all manner of crossovers....
TM-014 International 1998). In 2005, he sang on the re-release of Ayreon's first album, The Final Experiment
The Final Experiment
The Final Experiment is a progressive metal/rock opera album released in 1995 by Dutch multi-instrumentalist Arjen A. Lucassen. Originally penned Ayreon: The Final Experiment with no artist noted, at the suggestion of the record label the subject was later detached, and used as the name for what...
, providing lead vocals for an acoustic version of "Nature's Dance".
A fan of Clifford Ward, Daltrey was guest of honour at an October 1998 convention where he delivered a speech of appreciation.
Blueprint Records released a collection of Daltrey's best solo work in 1999 on Candy: The Best of Peter Daltrey (Blueprint BP304CD.) The turn of the century saw the release of Daltrey's album, Tambourine Days (Chelsea Records CDCR 000110) with the title track looking back at his earlier career, and the many friends who had shared that long frustrating road.
In 2000, Daltrey began a collaboration
Collaboration
Collaboration is working together to achieve a goal. It is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goals, — for example, an intriguing endeavor that is creative in nature—by sharing...
with the New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...
-based singer-songwriter, Damien Youth. Their first album, Nevergreen (Chelsea Records CDCR 002110) was released that year. This was followed by two more solo albums, Heroine (Chelsea Records CDCR 100110) in 2001 and The Last Detail (Chelsea Records CDCR 209010) in September 2002. The collaboration with Youth continued in November 2002 with the release of their second album, Tattoo (Chelsea Records CDCR 201110). Two months later Daltrey's first solo single was released on Earworm Records
Earworm Records
Earworm Records was a London-based independent record label, with its first release by the band Hood in 1997. Other bands to release music on the label include Yo La Tengo, Of Montreal, Stars of the Lid, Windy & Carl, Portal, The Besnard Lakes, Fridge, Damon & Naomi and Magnétophone....
, "(Love Song) For Annie" / "Gypsy Gypsy" (with Damien Youth) (Earworm Records).
In April 2003, after the discovery of some rare Kaleidoscope acetate disc
Acetate disc
An acetate disc, also known as a test acetate, dubplate , lacquer , transcription disc or instantaneous disc...
s the band authorised their release, Kaleidoscope - The Sidekicks Sessions (CD Alchemy). In September BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
recordings were released, Please Listen to the Pictures (Circle Records
Circle Records
Circle Records is a United States based record label specializing in jazz.Circle Records was founded in January of 1946 by Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis. They heard great jazz drummer Warren "Baby" Dodds playing inventive solos while in New York City with Bunk Johnson's band. Blesh said that he...
CPWL/CPWC 104), its cover art featuring many photograph
Photograph
A photograph is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of...
s and clipping
Clipping (publications)
Clipping is the cutting-out of articles from a paper publication. Newspaper clippings are often used when people have to write a report or make a presentation on current events for school. Clippings may also be kept by adults for future reference, or for sentimental reasons such as an article on...
s from Daltrey's extensive band archive
Archive
An archive is a collection of historical records, or the physical place they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of an organization...
. The following month he released Pittsburg Warhola (Chelsea Records CDCR 300110) under the nom de plume Link Bekka. He and Youth then formed The Morning Set band, and released their first album, The Morning Set, at the end of 2006.
In 2007, Link Bekka, released two more albums: The Madness of King Bekka (Chelsea Records CDCR 707010) and Saharaville (Chelsea Records CDCR 709010). In 2009, Link Bekka collaborated with the saxophonist, Derek G Head for the album, Jacks Town an appreciation of the work of Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis "Jack" Lebris de Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his spontaneous method of writing, covering topics such as Catholic...
.
Daltrey continues to record and creates his artwork which he sells through his companies, ArtBeat and Demographic Online. Upcoming projects include contributions to a pictorial book on the Isle of Wight Festival 1970
Isle of Wight Festival 1970
The 1970 Isle of Wight Festival was held between 26 and 31 August 1970 at East Afton Farm an area on the western side of the Isle of Wight. It was the last of three consecutive music festivals to take place on the island between 1968 and 1970 and widely acknowledged as the largest musical event of...
, together with a TV documentary of the event. His son, Olly, was involved in The Fog Band
The Fog Band
The Fog Band were a garage punk/indie rock act from Bath, England that existed between 2000 and 2006 and were fronted by Bobby Grindrod. Originally instrumental, the band's lead guitarist persuaded Grindrod to be their vocalist after being intrigued by...
from 2000-2006.