PEANUT BRITTLE SATELLITE

Peanut Brittle Satellite biography
PEANUT BRITTLE SATELLITE formed in Buffalo, NY, in September of 2007. The band gained attention quite promptly from local musicians and concert goers, which subsequently meant also the gaining of a loyal cult following. The band's music is evidently complex, meticulously organized under the artistic ambitions of various kinds of progressive rock, contemporary jazz and art-rock, yet PBS's demanding and intricate eclecticism happens to be ornamented with such dynamics and such warmth that it turns out to be magically appealing. The band mentions a disparate array of big names as relevant influences for the shaping of its overall style: RETURN TO FOREVER MESHUGGAH, MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA, GENTLE GIANT, KING CRIMSON, STEVE REICH, ZAPPA, YES, HAMSTER THEATER, PRIMUS, etc. All in all, also each individual listener may notice other unnamed confluences through their own listening experiences. The band is a sextet whose line-up includes a peculiar factor: besides having a permanent drummer/percussionist and a permanent guitarist, there is also a second drummer who at times switches to second guitar; in turn, the violinist at times leaves his bowed instrument in order to add tuned percussion for extra color in the band's soinc pallet.

The band's debut album "Planet Girth", released in 2011 after a somewhat long recording process, was the definitive revelation of something that many people in the USA's underground knew: that PEANUT BRITTLE SATELLITE is a very essential name in the current state-of-the-affairs of America's progressive rock (... and worldwide). Just like the band's official biography in Myspace and Facebook reads: "All fans of well written music will be thoroughly satisfied with any offering from PBS."