Boombox Blitz: Peter Piek waxes ‘Green Blue’ at the stunning shoreline

Welcome to Boombox Blitz, an artist spotlight series showcasing overlooked singers, songwriters and musicians who are quietly taking over the world.

French-American writer Anaïs Nin once wrote, “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” It’s a simple poetic truth, and once which can be downright hard to swallow. The beauty around us is not defined by social or political standards but rather how we ourselves have come to analyze and perceive the world, from it’s innate beauty to the eventuality of tragedy. On the beach of some undisclosed shoreline, as the waves slap and tickle the sand, German musician and singer-songwriter Peter Piek lets his guard down. His alt-pop piano piece “Green Blue,” painted in oily and vibrant strokes, with the sunset casting him predominantly in shadow, shifts the focus away from himself to the god-like landscape at his fingertips and those of his lover, whose cheeks flush and soften.

“A flower is blooming in your eyes / I walk through the town and see them,” Piek sings, snuggling his voice is hushed tones amidst a delicate web of synths and wistful percussion. He then observes with tremendous heart, “Your eyes are green and sometimes blue / Eyes are always true…” His off-kilter dancing caught on camera juxtaposes his quirky sensibilities with a natural, elaborate spectacle sweeping up and away from his figure, a ghost-like visage simply passing through the present time and space to greater absolution.

Directed by Denis Herzog, the video captures a fleeting moment, somewhere between the then and the now. It’s a solemn and breathtaking visual, as if stapled onto Piek’s heart and exposed for the whole world to partake. “Green Blue,” in all its eclectic constructs and textures, is the first single to an upcoming album called Electric Babyland, out later this fall.

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