Website URL:
www.mp3.com.au/thepeachtree

Joined Musicfinity on
22-OCT-2007

Band members
Angus Maiden - Everything

Influences
A vast range of music from many different styles, from death metal to pop rock to techno, and everything in between.

Sounds like
A peach.

	The Peach Tree
	"The Forbidden Fruit Tastes The Best" GALLERY

About The Peach Tree

The Peach Tree is the unsigned, independent artistry of musician/writer/producer Angus Maiden, from Melbourne, Australia. It began circa 2003 as school friends Angus Maiden and Michael Cooney's concept of a band; a band that would break genre barriers and reach across the music spectrum to touch a whole host of different individuals. The duo began writing songs together after they finished school and practised sporadically, but the dream of being up there on stage delivering their message always seemed faraway. Although both Cooney and Gus had their own songs that they brought to the table and also had songs that they wrote together, they never got around to recording anything together. Meanwhile a fire burned in Gus for their music to be heard, and in the next few years he actively recorded new material that he had written solo, and began to put it up on the net. But Cooney was skeptical of putting stuff out there that was frankly unrefined and amateurish. Gus, not wanting to filter what he felt was good, raw, plaintive material, put up the music he had written and recorded across a range of sites including Last.fm, almost as soon as they occured. From 2003 to 2006 the two kept their dream that they would form a "proper" band and start delivering their songs to local audiences. They continued to jam and officialy recruited new members, but never fully coalesced into a cohesive entity. Members of the "band" at one point reached 5 members: Cooney (guitar, vocals), Gus (guitar, vocals), Erin (bass), Sarah (synth, piano) and Bourkey (drums), but as people do, they all led busy lives and slowly, the dream faded. Angus kept at it, though, as his dream of forming a band morphed into the pure pleasure of writing and recording music, and releasing it for free on the net. The Peach Tree today can only truly be defined as Angus Maiden's solo project. He has released three albums and two EPs under the name. His sound derives from the massive range of influences he is exposed to, and includes everything from pop melodies to dance tracks, death metal epics, and rockin' blues tracks. The first album by The Peach Tree, released in 2005, was titled "The Gus Sessions" because it was the first album to be written, recorded and played by Gus entirely at his home studio using a synthesiser, guitar, mic, a mixer and Cakewalk Homestudio. It leaps about from slow moody pop to dance to techno and then back to some more moodiness, making it inaccessable for some but a delight for many. In 2006 he released a 6 track EP entitled "The Dichalcitryde EP, a made up word that has a meaning similar to "running through the night sky tiptoe-ing on clouds whilst being persued by a pack of wolves playing nintendos who's half-arsed attempts at biting you in the bottom leave you falling about in rapturous laughter whilst gazing at the moon waning at the speed of light." No further explanation of this EP is needed. Also in 2006, Angus released an EP titled "The Vases EP". He cites reasons for this name as: "It sounds cool; The bass on some of the tracks will break all the vases in your house if you turn it up loud enough; Like a vase, each track is beautiful and formidably tangible, yet so fragile it feels like it will crumble at more than the slightest touch; Like a collection of vases, these tracks may be seen as tacky by some but a work of genius by others" Later in the same year he released "Fabric", a full length album that swings from sweet synth-pop to metal to bluesy rock. The idea behind the name is that the album is like a fabric tapestry, each different style weaving in and out in a pattern to make a beautiful piece of artwork. The Peach Tree's demo "Metal Epic", which later was fleshed out into a single from Fabric, " Mind Soul Dark Light", has been described as "a graphic dirge ... that borrows from the leaders of the early doom metal movement" by Metal webzine Harm.us. In October, 2007, Angus released his best effort yet, the tantalising techno-frenzy that is "Psychosis". Armed with much more sophisticated recording equipment and techniques, the album is hard hitting, fresh and eccentric. Angus is currently working on playing songs live and plans to dig his heels into the pub scene in his home town Melbourne, Australia.