DECA

July 2008 DECA A Hush 10th Anniversary Compilation Hush (download)

1. Hollow Notes - Novi Split
2. Refining - Peter Broderick
Recorded and performed by Peter Broderick: “I found this little oddball song that I recorded last year. I like the song, but it's so short, I could never figure out what to do with it.”
3. Come By Storm - Laura Gibson
4. The Afterlife Pt. I - Run On Sentence
5. Winding Sheet - Nick Jaina
6. Coo Coo Bird - Shelley Short
7. Hiding Home - Norfolk & Western
8. Spring Bird - Rauelsson
9. Space And All Dead Things - Corrina Repp
10. Elephants & Little Girls - Loch Lomond
11. Sharra - Kaitlyn Ni Donovan
12. Wii Oui - Podington Bear
13. Broke Down - Amy Annelle
14. The Wagoner's Lad - Colin Meloy

1. Song #4 - Fun With Friends
2. Petting Zoo - Solid Home Life
3. Your Smile - Fancie
4. Ridin' For A Fall (Young Dub) - Bobby Birdman
5. These Blues - Super XX Man
6. Egg Hunt - Reclinerland
7. Asleep At The Wheel - Casey Dienel
8. The Bane Of Progress - Jeff London
(Peter Broderick on violin, from the album The Bane Of Progress [Hush 2007])
9. Flight Cub - Velella Velella
10. Oh Darlin - Blanket Music
11. Big Eye City - Operacycle
12. Elysian Fields (We're Dead, We're Dead) - Parks and Recreation
13. Humm-na - Dat'r
14. Sleep At Last! (Live) - Flash Hawk Parlour Ensemble
(Recorded live @ The Doug Fir, Portland, Or 2007. Players included Peter Broderick, Jenny Conlee, Todd Corbett, Carson Ellis, Chris Funk, Victor Nash & featuring Sebastian the Animatronic Conducting Gorilla (C.M. 3000 Protype) with The Dr. Hofman Kinetic Oscillartor Light Show)

Download this album here

The Silent Ballet Volume IX

July 2008 The Silent Ballet IX: One Day We Will All Live Under The Sea (free download)

1. The Dead Sea: Nulla Desiderata
2. Olafur Arnalds: Fok
3. Anoice: Glitch
4. Bersarin Quartett: Mehr Als Alles Andere
5. Emanuele Errante: Fecunda
6. Peter Broderick: Atlantic
7. The Abbasi Brothers: The Social Evening (In 1992)
8. Sumner McKane: Doris
9. Cam Butler: I Surrender
10. Redhooker: Telling Time
11. Bosques de mi Mente: Nubes Apiladas en Forma de Montanas
12. Rudi Arapahoe: Conversation Piece
13. Joe Frawley: Sketches from Memory

Peter's track is the soundtrack to the film 'Atlantic' by Conor Ferguson, recorded in Spring 2008.

Download the album here

Library Tapes - Fragment

June 2008 Library Tapes - Fragment Kning Disk KD049 (cd, download)

1. Fragment I
2. Fragment II
3. Fragment III
4. Fragment IV
5. Fragment V
6. Fragment VI
7. Fragment VII
8. Fragment VIII

David Wenngren - piano
Peter Broderick - strings, celeste
Sylvain Chauveau - guitar

David and Peter had teamed up for a project called 'Collude' and had recorded an album. According to David, Type asked Peter not to release the record because they had numerous releases scheduled, so most of the songs that were recorded for the Collude album were used on the Library Tapes album 'A Summer Beneath the Trees', with two of the tracks on the 'Fragment' ep.

Efterklang - Tour EP #1

May 2008 Efterklang - Tour EP #1 Rumraket (cd)

1. Mirador – Live At Domino Festival At AB, Brussels, Belgium 10.04.08
2. Mirror Mirror – Live At Nordklang Festival, St. Gallen, Switzerland 16.02.08
3. Step Aside – Live At Motel Mozaique, Rotterdam, Netherlands 12.04.08
4. Caravan – Live At Motel Mozaique, Rotterdam, Netherlands 12.04.08
5. Chapter 6 – Live At Ekko, Utrecht, Netherlands 13.04.08
6. Cutting Ice To Snow – Live At Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK 02.04.08

From insert:
“The recordings are simply made from a stereo output from the mix-desk combined with a stereo pair of microphones in the audience. Mads mastered the recordings in the Efterklang studio. Sara, from the lovely record label Hometapes, kindly helped with design and manufacturing from which was then carried out in hand by Efterklang.”

Limited to 250 copies.

[if anyone has a copy and would be prepared to send better scans of the sleeve/insert I would be very grateful]

Float

April 2008 Float Type Records TYPE027LP (12" vinyl) TYPE027 (cd) download (mp3, flac)

1. A Snowflake
2. Floating/Sinking
3. A Glacier
4. A Simple Reminder
5. Stopping on the Broadway Bridge
6. Another Glacier
7. Something Has Changed
8. Broken Patterns
9. An Ending
10. A Beginning

Peter Broderick - Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, Celeste, Banjo, Saw, Theremin, Accordion, Drums, Trumpet, Voice, Keyboards, Bass Guitar, Field Recordings
Amanda Lawrence - voice (03, 06), cello (05), viola (01, 03, 06 - 10)
Skyler Norwood - voice (03), effects (05)

From Type Records:

In the last few years the world has seen its fair share of musicians give up the trusty guitar in favour of the piano, the banjo or possible even the French horn, but rarely to we get a musician who seems so perfectly suited to any instrument he cares to grab hold of. ‘Float’ is the debut full-length album from Oregonian Peter Broderick and is the ideal showcase for his well-honed instrumental talents, blending as it does his love of folk music, classical music and good old fashioned indie pop. After the release of the ‘Docile’ EP on cult Swedish label Kning disk there was no doubting the man’s piano playing skills, but here we see the piano joined by violins, cello, drums, banjo, guitar, vocals and so much more resulting in a dense and varied collection of tracks. An easy comparison might be Efterklang, the Danish band who Peter currently performs with but ‘Float’ is just as easily linked to the work of FatCat’s Max Richter, Type’s Sylvain Chauveau or even the Portland, Oregon scene which birthed him.

‘Float’ is an album which has a definite narrative – a fan of film soundtracks and the films themselves Peter decided early on to make an album which was not simply a collection of random tracks. Rather we hear themes appear and re-appear, motifs to signal the different acts of the record and characters, sometimes in the shape of instruments themselves dropping in and out as if through some thick French cigarette smoke. Even the titles of the tracks themselves could tell a story and as you listen to the album, as subconsciously you follow the broad lines which link each piece together.

Already Peter has interest from the most important indie labels around the world, so catch him now before the rest of the world gets hold…

Listen to streaming audio here

Stef Lewandowski talks about the sleeve art here

released in a vinyl edition of 400 and as unlimited editions in other formats

Our Broken Garden - Lost Sailor

April 2008 Our Broken Garden - Lost Sailor Bella Union BELLACD164 (cd; download)/Rumraket (DK)

1. The Blinding
2. Visible To You
3. When Your Blackening Shows (Alternative Version)
4. Lost Sailor
5. Anchoring Interlude
6. Ashes

Anna Brønsted - vocals
Søren Bigum - guitars
Moogie Johnson - bass
Poul Terkildsen - drums
Palle Hjorth - organ, keyboards
Lise Westzynthius - piano
Robert Karlsson - strings
Peter Broderick

She & Him - Volume 1

March 2008 She & Him - Volume One Merge Records MRG324 (lp, cd, download) Double Six Recordings DS009 (cd)

1. Sentimental Heart
2. Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
3. This Is Not a Test
4. Change Is Hard
5. I Thought I Saw Your Face Today
6. Take It Back
7. I Was Made for You
8. You Really Got a Hold on Me
9. Black Hole
10. Got Me
11. I Should Have Known Better
12. Sweet Darlin'
13. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Zooey Deschanel - Vocals, Piano, Percussion, Xylophone
M. Ward - Keyboards, Guitar, Vocals, String Arrangement, Bass
Mike Coykendall - Percussion, Bass, Guitar
Tom Hagerman - Strings (01, 06)
Mike Moggis - Percussion, Guitar (01, 04, 12)
Rachel Blumberg - Percussion (05, 07, 09, 12)
Peter Broderick - Strings (05, 12)
Adam Selzer - Percussion (12)
Paul Brainerd - Guitar (06, 11)

Recorded in Fall 2006 and Winter 2007