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Artist
Pieter Gabriel
12+ albums
austriansinger-songwriterMellowalternativemelancholic
about
There are at least two artists with the name “Pieter Gabriel”. 1: Born 2004, Pieter is a DJ and EDM producer from the Netherlands, most notable for producing a remix of “Venus” with Eric van Tijn for the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 Grand Final flag parade. 2: The world of Pieter Gabriel's songs is not necessarily a sunny place. Even if they seldom touch on the political dimension of the dystopian nightmare our (western) world has become. „I killed a man and i don't believe in god. He pulled his knife. I pulled the trigger of my gun.“ („Algerian Limbo“) Pieter Gabriel, born 1981 lives in Vienna. His father picked his name intentionally, using the dutch spelling of the first name to make sure people really get the association with Peter Gabriel. Music mattered to his father. Music matters to Pieter, who grew up listening to tons of stuff, „fortunately on vinyl“. Reading about it almost as passionately as he used his ears to explore the secrets and the beauty, the texture and the grammar of various sounds. By 2006 the self-taught musician started to write his own songs, today referencing greats like Nick Drake, Radiohead, Slint, Jeff Buckley or My Bloody Valentine who informed his own stlye and vision. Not to forget a long-lasting love affair with thinking men's pop-sensation Talk Talk. Or Tom Waits. Pieter does not always or foremost chronicle his own pain in his songs, or analyse his own depression and uneasyness with a world going out of hand. Yet as an musical artist
