Pheroze

Friends,
No need to flog me. I’ve self-flagellated enough already. I’ve been away as other parts of my existence have become a little more time consuming.

On the plus side, my nourishing typing now features Alpha hydroxy and extra-enriched moisturizers clinically proven for very dry, flaky minds. Keep reading my blog and, in time, your minds will be more moist than Miss Piggy’s snout after a swamp tussle with Kermit.

Why the internet was made

Beyond keeping grub on the table I’ve been writing MUSIC. Much music. I aim to have a follow up to Driftwood released in 2010.I’ll be putting some demo tracks from the upcoming album up here for free download soon – very soon. Stay tuned!

I’ll put some more lotion on y’all soon loves. In the meantime, I implore you to work those rough elbows with the little droplets that come from following me on Twitter. (www.twitter.com/pheroze).

-pheroze

I’ve posted the entire interview in the Press section. Click here to read the full interview.

IRT Mag Fall 2008 featuring Pheroze

Here’s an excerpt:

IRT: I hear a lot of Jeff Buckley in your music. How did you discover his music?

Pheroze: Thanks. Jeff Buckley is definitely an influence of mine. It always seemed that his voice was on the edge of breaking, like at any minute he could totally lose control over it. I love that in a musician. The summer, before I moved to New York, I took a few classes at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. One day when I went into class, my teacher told us that Jeff Buckley’s body had just been found in the Mississippi river. I had never heard his music before then, but I saw the album Grace in a used CD store a few days later and picked it up. Because I’m lazy it took me four years to get around to listening to it, but as soon as I put it on I was mesmerized! Unfortunately I never had a chance to see him play. At least not physically. In spirit, I think I see him play all the time.

IRT: Being of the same denomination as Freddie Mercury, I am sure you are a fan of Queen. Do you have a favorite album of theirs? Which one is it and why?

Pheroze: Oh man. Would it be truly awful to say that I like their Greatest Hits CD’s the best? Yeah it would. So I won’t say that!…

IRT: On your album, you incorporate a few instruments native to your Indo/Persian heritage. How did you choose which instruments to use and the way in which you use them on Driftwood?

Pheroze: Growing up, I spent a lot of time in India and was surrounded by all sorts of Eastern styles of music. My ears are used to hearing the quartertones used in the Indian tonal system and it affected my natural voicing early on. So it’s ingrained in me. I had a lot of different Indian percussion lying around so if it made sense to use a certain instrument within a song then I put it to use, not always in the most traditional of ways…

Read the full interview here.

The first track off of Driftwood is now available for free download.
Click here to download Never Lie to the Pavement.
I’ll be rotating a few songs for free download in the coming weeks so stay tuned. Unless of course you already bought the album, which means you’re swell and you get hugs from the person directly to your left.