Electricity (album) explained

Electricity
Type:album
Artist:Peter Jefferies
Cover:Electricity (Peter Jefferies).jpg
Released:1994
Recorded:May 1992 – February 1994 at Maitland St., Liverpool St., and Empire Tavern, Dunedin, New Zealand
Genre:Post-punk
Length:50:48
Label:Ajax Records
Producer:Brendan Hoffman, Peter Jefferies[1]
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Electricity is a 1994 album by New Zealand pianist Peter Jefferies.[2] It was released on the Ajax Records label.[3] The album includes reworkings of previous Jefferies tracks "Wined Up" and "Crossover" (from a 1993 7" recorded with Stephen Kilroy).

It was reissued via Superior Viaduct in 2015.[4]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that "Jefferies concentrates on the more melodious (if somber) end of things for most of the record, an approach that crystallizes beautifully on an album-ending cover of Barbara Manning’s 'Scissors.'”[5]

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Peter Jefferies - AudioCulture. www.audioculture.co.nz.
  2. Web site: Peter Jefferies' 1994 Album 'Electricity' Gets Deluxe Reissue by Superior Viaduct. exclaim.ca.
  3. Web site: Peter Jefferies | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  4. Web site: Peter Jefferies by Tobias Carroll - BOMB Magazine. bombmagazine.org.
  5. Web site: Peter Jefferies . Trouser Press . 18 November 2020.