Peter Jefferies

Like his brother Graeme, who qualified prospects the Cakekitchen, New Zealand singer/instrumentalist Peter Jefferies’ first music performances were in Nocturnal Projections, followed within the mid-’80s by This sort of Punishment (the dark but sometimes quite stunning cult band which achieved very much greater notice once they were active). Pursuing TKP’s last dissolution, Jefferies positively pursued a single profession while also helping and collaborating with a broad amount of his fellow Kiwi music artists, offering as something near an in-house maker for the famous Xpressway label. Like a musician, Jefferies offers at times attracted comparisons to additional performers; his piano skill and nonmusical but influencing, deep vocals frequently call in your thoughts John Cale. Nevertheless, Jefferies is quite hard to pin down; it’s miles simpler to observe how his capabilities at using four-track devices to generate at-times intentionally tough, often very personal recordings helped forecast the eventual lo-fi growth, while preventing the typically sloppy believe that the word is generally connected with. In the first ’90s, Jefferies’ abroad profile began to grow quickly after Chicago’s Ajax label started issuing both several his then-current produces and singles, in addition to licensing older TKP albums for launch. Further musical endeavors were the effect, especially with Mecca Regular vocalist Jean Smith, who collaborated with Jefferies in Two Feet Fire. Jefferies himself authorized to Trance Syndicate sublabel Emperor Jones, leading to two more single albums prior to the parent label proceeded to go bankrupt in 1999.