Peter Vander Laan
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Interested in music since his early youth, his parents, musicians too with some important influence on him.
He started playing music a long time ago, he was very keen on progressive rock in those days (classical rock, hard rock, jazzrock), music he still likes.
He got interested into many kinds of music, like medieval and classical music, jazz, blues, world music, experimental music and avant-garde.
He play all instruments, on some older tracks he had some guest musicians.
He composes his own music and writes his own lyrics.
He studied philosophy and anthropology, these sciences and books have influenced him strongly (a.o. Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Habermas, Lyotard).
About
In the meantime Peter hase released three CDs, the first one was released in 1999, title "Silence Before The Storm", the tracks are The Question In Mind (old version), Temple, Aëcsthýrhá (available here), Unclear And Unexplained, Silence Before The Storm (the title track, available here), The Oncoming (available here), Clapping Music (available here) and Elixir (available here). Now this CD without Question In Mind (old version) is now available (re-released and digitally revised/remastered) through Amazon, iTunes and other famous music and selling sites, under the name of "Once Upon My Time" - re-released in 2009 by The Magenta Label and marketed by CreativeSpace Inc.
His second CD was released in 2003, title "Thesymu - A Dream - The Original Movement", based on a book he wrote in 1990. In fact it's a big and long track, with a modern classical influence. This CD was not well sold, but this will be re-released with some experimental ideas included and with a shorter name together with another new long track, probably as a double CD, but certainly not earlier than in 2010.
On January 2, 2009 Peter released his newest and third CD "Afterwards", all seven tracks (the first seven in the player) are available here, from Overture Of Elegy to Visit To The Earth - a story. This last track had been produced for a stage production in 2008, he wrote the story himself, Peter Swart wrote the music on his request, Peter also contributed some to this music. He apologizes that, due to the length of this track and the Mb size, he had to change this track into an mp3 file of a slightly lesser quality. This third and new CD is now officially available through Amazon, iTunes and other famous music and selling sites, released by The Magenta Label and marketed by CreativeSpace Inc.
Peter is also a proud member of the progressive rockband Morphosis, MySpace website: morphosismusicgroup, in which he also plays together with his best music friends Peter Swart, his MySpace site: peterswart and Gerard Molenaar (who did not have the time to make his own website yet).
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