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Saturday, September 9, 2023

PETER LEWIS FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE LEGENDARY MOBY GRAPE RELEASES NEW ALBUM ‘IMAGINATION’ ZOOM SPECIAL EVENT ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS WITH RAY SHASHO!

 




PETER LEWIS

 FOUNDING MEMBER 

OF THE LEGENDARY 

M O B Y   G R A P E

 RELEASES NEW ALBUM

 'IMAGINATION'

ZOOM SPECIAL EVENT

ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS

with RAY SHASHO

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Peter Lewisfounding member of the legendary Moby Grape has released Imagination, a new collection of singular songcraft that could only spring from the creative consciousness of Peter Lewis.


Consider the driving, chiming “Path of Least Resistance,” as radio ready as a rocker can be despite its fierce philosophizing, and “If I Just Had You,” which spins incandescent longing into perfect doo/wop. Delicate guitars and lilting, uplifting harmonies are the warm embrace of “When You Come Back to Me” while pensive piano carries the earnestly heartening “Without You.” Impossible to peg, Lewis also lets loose with a country waltz (“The Garden Song”), a flamenco-influenced tragedy (“La Mujer”) and a jazzy, trippy nightmare (“Frank Zappa’s Ghost”).

With his voice in fine fettle, Lewis serves each song—bright and delicate here, gravelly and aching there, even roaring when required—through lyrical themes that ponder mortality versus eternity, illusion versus reality.


The 10-track long player is his second release on OMAD Records, a follow-up to 2019’s The Road to Zion, and it marks a deeper collaboration with John DeNicola, main man of the bespoke label. “The songs on Imagination, like those on The Road to Zion, attempt to reveal a certain perspective about life,” Lewis says. “But on The Road to Zion, this perspective was highly personal, whereas working with John on Imagination, we sought a perspective we might share with everyone.”

The time has come for listeners to enter Peter Lewis’s Imagination. What insights you glean from the words, what spirit you hear in the sound, what it makes you think and feel—about dreams, doubt and deception, life, love and the everlasting—will be yours alone. All Lewis will suggest, in terms of a shared experience, is a favorite line from Lost Horizon: “‘There are moments in every man’s life when he glimpses the eternal.’ I have been searching for this glimpse all my life and my sincere wish is that anyone out there searching for it too might find hope for their journey in this record.”


PURCHASE

THE LATEST RELEASE

BY

PETER LEWIS

Entitled

IMAGINATION 

“We are all beings who want to live forever but know we won’t. Although this is a predicament everyone must learn to accept, the different ways in which we spend our time trying to cope with our mortality don’t always lead to a common sympathy between us, but to conflict and profound suffering. Yet in the end all we really have in the whole wide universe is each other and that is what this CD is trying to point out” – Peter Lewis

Purchase at:

www.omadrecords.com/store/peterlewisimaginationcd

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION

ABOUT

PETER LEWIS

VISIT

www.bighassle.com/peter-lewis

Big Hassle

www.facebook.com/TheMusicOfPeterLewis

Facebook

www.mobygrape.us

Moby Grape store

 

DISCOGARPHY

SOLO

Peter Lewis (1995)

Live in Bremen (2003, with David West)

"Live at the Lobero Theatre" (2013, with David West)

Just Like Jack (2017)

The Road To Zion (2019)

Imagination (2023)

 

MOBY GRAPE

Studio albums

1967 – Moby Grape

1968 – Wow/Grape Jam

1969 – Moby Grape '69

1969 – Truly Fine Citizen

1971 – 20 Granite Creek

1984 – Moby Grape '84

 (also known as "Silver Wheels" or "The Heart Album")

1989 – Legendary Grape

Live albums

1978 – Live Grape

2010 – Moby Grape Live

 







PETER LEWIS

APPEARS WEEK OF

 SEPTEMBER 9TH 2023


ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS

WITH RAY SHASHO

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