Peter von Poehl

Peter von Poehl at the 2007 Eurockéennes

Peter von Poehl is a Swedish singer-songwriter, composer, musician and director.

He was the guitarist for A.S. Dragon, once the backing band for Bertrand Burgalat and in Michel Houellebecq's album Présence humaine (2000). He has since collaborated with other artists, such as Doriand (Le Grand bain), Lio (Dites au prince charmant), Marie Modiano (I'm Not a Rose) and Florian Horwath (We Are All Gold), with whom he founded the Graeferecordings label in Berlin.

His first album, Going to Where the Tea-Trees Are, was published by the French label Tôt ou tard on 9 May 2006.

He has since produced Vincent Delerm's third album, Les Piqûres d'araignée (2006), in which he participates in one song, Marine. He is now on a long series of tours, most notably as the opening act for Phoenix (autumn 2006) and Air (spring 2007). He played at the Eurockéennes 2007 in Belfort.

His second album, May Day, was released in February 2009. He played new songs from this album during a series of live shows in La Maroquinerie (Paris), at the beginning of July 2008.

Discography

• Going to Where the Tea-Trees Are (2006)
  1. Going to Where the Tea-Trees Are
  2. Tooth Fairy Tale
  3. Travelers
  4. Virgin Mountains
  5. A Broken Skeleton Key
  6. Global Conspiracy
  7. Scorpion Grass
  8. The Story of the Impossible
  9. Tooth Fairy Tale Part II
  10. The Lottery
  11. Little Creatures
  12. The Bell Tolls Five

• May Day (2009)
  1. Parliament
  2. Dust of Heaven
  3. Forgotten Garden
  4. Near the End of the World
  5. Carrier Pigeon
  6. Mexico
  7. Mexico Part II
  8. Moon Shot Falls
  9. May Day
  10. Wombara
  11. Lost in Space
  12. Silent as Gold
  13. Elisabeth
  14. An Eye for an Eye

See also

Source

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.

External links

• Official website
• (French) On the Tôt ou tard website
• SEEN: Download Peter Von Poehl
• Peter Von Poehl talks about some of his favorite songs