In the spirit of "community", I am here to network, share and collaborate with peers.  My media here on ASCAP consists of professional recordings, as well as demos and works-in-progress, and is accessible only to "friends".  Add me as a friend, or feel free to listen to my work at the links below.  -cp

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CHRISTOPHER PEIFER is foremost a rock musician, having recorded and toured the world with The Kowalskis, sir, Frances Farmer My Hero and many others. He's shared the stage with rock giants Soundgarden, dinosaurs Head East, Grand Funk Railroad and Foghat, notorious punkers Cheetah Chrome (Dead Boys), Vice Squad and The Fleshtones, and garage legends The Dirtbombs, The Woggles, and Eddie and the Hotrods.
He's recorded at some the of the metropolitan area's finest studios, including: Dubway, LoHo, Threshold (NYC); Headgear, MetroSonic (Brooklyn), Don Casale (Long Island), Moonlight Mile (Hoboken).
A bass and guitar player, he is available for session work with ORIGINAL acts, playing: Rock, Punk, Pop, Country, Bluegrass, Blues, Dance, Soul, R&B, Singer/songwriter, Americana . . .
Chris currently writes, records and performs with ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT and HEAVY CREATURES and plays bass with Mishal Zeera, and Josh Diamond and the Brooklyn Soul.

A theatrical sound designer / composer (ASCAP), Chris' credits range from Fringe to Broadway, including Manhattan Theatre Club, Westport Country Playhouse (Paul Newman), Williamstown Theatre Festival and Juilliard at Lincoln Center.
Christopher has put sound around, lit and worked alongside such luminaries as Bill Clinton, Joey Ramone, The Roots, Ashley Judd, Spike Lee, Mary Tyler Moore, Sarah Jessica Parker, Amy Sedaris, Cherry Jones, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, Alan Alda, Charlie Rose, Cat Power, Richie Havens, Nick Cave and many more . . .

Chris' studio, GARAGELAND NYC offers digital and analog recording, with the live room in Brooklyn and addtional production facilities in Manhattan. We've recently expanded capabilities with our mobile unit, and can now record virtually anywhere!

Garageland NYC has been busy recording demos and broadcast ads with a talented array of voiceover artists. We are happy to take on exciting new projects, from string quartets to singer/songwriters and bands, from commercials to independent film.

Josh Diamond & The Brooklyn Soul is hot off the press (2/10)! Recorded and mixed at Garageland, mastered by the impeccable Paul Gold at Salt, these 5 tunes bring the love straight outta Brooklyn.

The new self-titled vinyl 12" from Another Saturday Night was recorded and mixed at Garageland. On Slow Gold Zebra Records, it drops early 2010!
The Brought Low banged out a few new killer tunes Summer '09!
We're happy to continue our relationship with New York City House Concerts, recording classical music's top emerging talent.
Congrats to John Gallagher Jr., who won a 2007 Tony Award for his performance in the Broadway musical, Spring Awakening! John recorded a few excellent songs with us in our old downtown studio.

http://www.myspace.com/GaragelandNYC

http://www.chrispei.com

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RECENT PRESS:

Heavy Creatures

KEXP 90.3 (Seattle)

http://depts.washington.edu/kexp/blog/?p=5036

Through frequent tempo changes, they challenge their audience while insistently commanding their attention at the same time. Fans can look forward to seeing them as more of a presence on the music scene this year.

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"Tudd’s Mudd"

http://tudsmudh.typepad.com/tuddds_muddd/2008/02/the-big-sleep-w.html

These guys had my head bobbin' and toe tappin' as they tore through an assemblage of nifty little riffs, plus their bassist (Christopher Peifer) was popping off some supercool John Paul Jones-esque melodies pretty much the whole way through. I especially enjoyed how many of their tunes crammed seemingly unrelated riffs right up against each other back-to-back, making the longer songs less gassy. Fun band.

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Rock Insider (LA)

http://www.rockinsider.com/2008/02/big-sleep-hidden-track.html

I've been really digging this band Heavy Creatures lately. I somehow stumbled on their myspace page, which is doubly strange/lucky for me because I don't spend that much time on myspace, but I was drawn to their name. Anyway, I love their artwork, I love their taste in guitars, I love the sound of their records, but most of all, I LOVE their songs. They're classic rock influenced, which in a lot of cases just means tired sounding and unoriginal, but not here, because the songs are just so good. I can't stop playing the riff to "Family Tree" in practice. So it's really crazy to me that they aren't really playing that many shows around town (NYC). They should be all over the place.

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RCRD LBL http://www.rcrdlbl.com/2008/07/09/exclusive_download_heavy_creatures_family_tree_love_come_down

Band names are important. If you're named the Fluffy Princesses and sound like Brutal Knights there is certain to be a tragic disconnect. Then there is Heavy Creatures. They could be Dirty Animals or Sexy Beasts - essentially you'd just need an adjective to convey purringly thick swagger and a noun that remained as primitive as possible and you would get the idea. Heavy Creatures is fronted by two women who use classic 60s female harmonies in "Family Tree" as effectively as they combine their vocal power to create a primal drum circle feel in "Love Come Down." And the music - well, shit is heavy. It chuggs along beneath grandly gesturing keyboard and guitar lines while toying with the blues and psychedelic music so cleverly you're hard pressed to assign them a genre. These creatures understand the meaning of "momentum" and "build" and "crescendo" so well, you'd swear they were mounting a charge on all the mediocre bands in NYC. Heavy Creatures is the closest thing to Jefferson Airplane when they were interesting, sexy and just a bit creepy we've seen, so put on something beaded and dig.

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Perpetual Toxins

http://www.perpetualtoxins.com/080822-creatures.shtml

NYC's Heavy Creatures have developed their own special blend of organic rock reliant on viscous grooves and a sweeping ethereal spirit showcased on the quartet's latest eight-track excursion, The Cymbal and the Skull. There's an underlying darkness swirling through the Moog keyboards and Neil Young-esque fretwork that emits a kind of barren Midwestern farm night scene on cuts like "Crimson Canyon," while the hypnotic shuffle of "Landing of the Fall" harkens back to the days of surf rock psychedelics as interpreted through the walls of a dank metropolitan rehearsal space. Meshing entrancing drone rock with a free love, make peace not war sensibility, the smoky vibes emanated by Heavy Creatures teeter on the brink of rock 'n' roll danger with a tribal swagger with an underscored riot grrrl grit leading the charge.

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"Curiously potent" -- Timeout NY

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Another Saturday Night

"Damn, this shit is tight as a vintage Robert Mitchum noir thriller. Same sorta swagger and cocksure deliverance. Timeless stuff. New York heroes like Johnny Thunders and Velvet Underground come to mind as well as some of the more rowdy late-60s Stones albums. Classic rock and proto-punk engages beautifully in a soulful street party with bruised dames and cheap liquor. I really dig the stripped down production that aids the 11 songs. Raw, devil-may-care and ballsy – I bet they slay on a stage. “Secrets And Whispers” even recalls The Humpers (remember them?). Don’t waste your money on the latest limb offerings from the ashes of The New York Dolls or Stones, Another Saturday Night’s debut album is your ticket to gut level decadent rock’n’roll that actually oozes with cojones and heart. The band hails from - of course - the Big Apple." -- LowCut (Denmark)

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"These songs are sassy, full of bare knuckle truth and put together very well, a great introduction to this band. It’s got me wanting to hear more.  I’m surprised and regretful at the same time, because I missed them the last time they rolled through Cincinnati. I’m also a bit surprised that this band isn't a huge success already and really, I realize from the perches of my self-imposed exile, that they really might be. Or rather, they should be playing packed holes in the wall anywhere they go. Like a locked groove record, rock and/or roll will never stop... The beast is too unruly now, it can only be shuffled around and kept at bay, but with a band like Another Saturday Night you can hear an example of how the battle still rages."

-- Neus Subjex (Cincinnati)

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"I noticed tons of Rolling Stones posters wheat-pasted to construction sites and abandoned buildings and had some sarcastic inner-thoughts about Mick and the boys creak out a new inevitably unmemorable album. But when I realized the posters were for an "Exile on Main Street" reissue I was surprised to feel a little disappointed that no new Stones was forthcoming. Then I went home, but this LP on the Victrola, and was in rock 'n' roll ecstasy enjoying the best new Stones album the Stones never made. Jaggerian jaggings with L.E.S. track marks murking up the madness makes for some serious hot, cool shit." -- Roctober Magazine

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“Whiskey scented riffs, as if from the breath of Keith Richards … a more than recommendable record for Saturday nights.” -- Kick Out the Jams (Spain)

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"Best of 2008"
-- GORILLA GOT ME RADIO - WMBR 88.1 FM BOSTON

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"Rolling Stones jangle and swagger.  Think "Brown Sugar."

-- Kristen K., Razorcake

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"Seven inches of vinyl ... Another Saturday Night's latest bar room rocker ... Howlin' guitars and steady rollin' tunes. Grab a PBR and bring on the night."
-- Starr Tucker, NY Waste, Fall '08

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"Another Saturday Night is pure American rock n roll, maybe even typically New York if you're listening to some of the vocal parts that are reminiscent of the Dolls or the Fleshtones. The songwriting, rooted in all the epochs of rock and roll, is also timeless, simple, raw and energetic Garage Rock with background vocals, just like you want it. With this one we should keep our eyes open for a LP because these songs whet your appetite for more." 
-- Flying Revolver (Germany)

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Yep, it's another Saturday night in NYC, and you're heading out to your favourite local bar, having finally managed to scrub the dirt out from beneath your fingernails. You shoot the shit with the bartender, Dale, who knows your preferred brand of beer without you having to tell him. You say hey to some friends playing pool in the corner, adjust your balls, take a long pull from the cold bottle, head over to the stage and nod your head in time to the Stones-by-way-of-Dolls garage rock the band is playing. It's Another Saturday Night, man, and the world is A-okay.
-- Sleazegrinder (Boston)

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New York’s Slow Gold Zebra label sent us a whole bundle of vinyl joy this issue. Their package didn’t just serve to reassure that someone else still appreciates the beauty of shiny 7 inchers in grainily photocopied sleeves, but offered a comforting indication that there’s still some sleaze strung out on the streets of the cleaned up Big Apple.

Whether or not you can offer a "yes" when the leading ladyboy with Another Saturday Night inquires, "do you remember the Giants of Love?" in a hearty Johansen baritone on the A-side to their single, it’s certain these Doll-y boys will bring back memories of the City’s golden era, with a twist of The Stones gritty Brit groove for good measure comes B-side "Sidewalkin’".

-- Bubblegum Slut (UK) 7" Round-up

Hometown
New York City

Musical Subgenre
Psychedelic, Garage, Soul, Punk, Metal

Contact Info
chripei@hotmail.com

Publisher
ekkyklema (ASCAP)

Label
Blackout!, Engine, Motif, Slow Gold Zebra and others ...

Website URL:
http://www.chrispei.com

Favorite artists:
Frances Farmer My Hero, Heavy Creatures, Another Saturday Night, The Kowalskis, sir, Grande, Killer Mink, The Brought Low, Josh Diamond and The Brooklyn Soul