2024 Peach on a beach highlights

2024 was another fab year for my music project!

Super grateful for making and sharing music with Paul Morris of The Music Box Recording Studio in Clare, Shawn Bourque of Greenlight Studios and vocal support by Joelle Peach.

The highlight was releasing four videos and three singles, two of which charted on the East Coast Top 30 and even made the Top 100 of 2024 countdown on New Year’s Day.

Released in October, my climate change single “Clock is Ticking" charted at no. 42.

I am thankful to have received marketing funds from Music Nova Scotia to support this release.

Released in May, “Zooming In" is an electro-pop tribute to my lifelong passion for maps. It landed at no. 27!

Thanks again to everyone who voted for the songs and to Martin Hickey and the CIOE team for promoting all genres of Atlantic Canadian music!

A reminder that all my releases can be found on the major steaming platforms as well as Bandcamp and my artist website.

Like previous years, I spent some of the holidays tweaking demos. Stay tuned for new singles and videos coming in the new year!

Peach on a beach releases video for "Charlie Brown Christmas Tree"

Originally released on streaming in December 2023, a new YouTube video for "Charlie Brown Christmas Tree" has been created for the 2024 holiday season to celebrate my festive tribute to a small artificial tree from my first Christmas in Clare, back in 1998.

I made the video with VideoProc using free clips from Pexels and shooting a few shots from around the basement. To create a nostalgic vibe, I added a retro TV filter and fuzzy transitions to evoke going back in time. 

If you watch the video long enough, you'll see some old Polaroid photos from my (and wife Joelle's) childhood holidays with our families during the 1970s and 80s.

Poignant lyrics recall childhood memories as melancholic vocals blend with uplifting synths riffs, bells and piano to create a nostalgic soundscape. 

Some 25 plus years later, I still hold on to the ragged yet symbolic "Charlie Brown” Christmas tree, now embraced by my wife Joelle who sings soothing backing vocals.

For a detailed review of the single and video, I invite you to read these articles by Dulaxi and Saiid Zeidan, bloggers based in the United States. 

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Hope you enjoy! Stay tuned for a new single coming winter 2025. Like the last few years, I'll be taking some extra time off from my day job over the Christmas break to tweak a few demos and plan for the next release. 

Peach on a beach releases “Clock is Ticking", an electropop song about climate change

New release October 4, 2024: “Clocks Ticking" by Peach on a beach (Larry Peach).

The third single from my upcoming album All Over the Map is a playful song with an important message.

The electropop song about climate change will have you questioning your place in the universe while simultaneously dancing your worries away. 

Hypnotic synths and a captivating video remind listeners that lessons learned in geology and geography classes are still relevant today.  

Shout-outs to Shawn from Greenlight Studios for a fun video shoot in the classroom and on the beach and to Paul from The Music Box Recording Studio in Clare for his adept mixing and mastering!   

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Stay tuned for more music news in the upcoming months! 

💿 1 year anniversary CD sale 💿

1 year anniversary CD sale

Hey everyone...to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of my debut CD release, I am offering a summer sale!

$10 cash in person (save $5!)

$12 via mail (incl. free shipping to anywhere in Canada - please DM your address for e-transfer).

The 8 songs on Flashbacks are a celebration of vivid memories as a teen growing up in the 80s in Dartmouth:

1. Beeping and Bleeping - voted no. 1 East Coast Top 30, Jan. 14/23

2. Ice Cream Karma

3. Boogeyman Trail

4. Before Call Display

5. The Dark Side (Doughboys)

6. Parcel Pickup

7. Anticipation Street

8. Pizza Corner - voted no. 1 East Coast Top 30, May 20/23

Thanks for all the support, streams, video views, votes and also those who have already purchased a CD...it means a lot!

Stay tuned for a new single in September and a 2nd album in 2025!

Peach releases spring single "Zooming In", a tribute to maps

New release May 3, 2024: “Zooming In" by Peach on a beach (Larry Peach) is a hip hop, synthpop, over the top tribute to Peach's lifelong love of maps and a tongue-in-cheek take on how their use has changed over time. 

Essential listening for geography nerds and technophiles.

So yours truly plays an old school goofball in a light-hearted video about my passion for geography, maps and nostalgia. 

Thanks to Shawn from Greenlight Studios for shooting the footage and to Paul from The Music Box Recording Studio in Clare for the fab mixing and mastering!   

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Stay tuned for more new singles in the upcoming months! 

Peach releases "Rabbit Hole" as first single in 2024

Compared to his whimsical debut, the first single from Peach on a beach’s upcoming sophomore album All Over the Map hints at exploring more contemporary themes.

“Rabbit Hole” is a detour to the dark side, a reminder about the futility of arguing with online. 

The dark wave song is also an homage to The Cure, one of my biggest influences from the 80’s. Hypnotic synths and heavy percussion accompany ominous lyrics and vocals, reminiscent of alternative artists of the era.

"Rabbit Hole" is also the first single I mixed and mastered in my home studio.

I wanted to create a trippy music video to promote the single -- click link below to watch on YouTube.  

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Stay tuned for more new singles in the upcoming months! 

2023 Peach on a beach highlights

2023 was a fab and crazy ride for my music project!

I’d like to thank everyone who helped realize the dream by partnering on a project, streaming a song and/or buying a CD.

Some of the year’s highlights:

Recording a debut album/CD with Paul @ The Music Box Recording Studio in Clare

Creating two fun videos with Shawn @ Greenlight Studios

Making a logo with Amy @ Atelier Amy Paradis and an artist website with Marc @ ghostjunk, thanks in part to marketing funding from Music Nova Scotia https://www.peachonabeach.ca/

Participating in interviews on Eastlink TV with Tony, Lisa Doucette and TVGuyMichael

Reaching number 1 twice (!!) on the East Coast Top 30 for “Beeping and Bleeping” (Jan. 14) and “Pizza Corner” (May 20). "Pizza Corner landed at no. 26 on the CIOE year-end chart. Thanks again for your votes!

Creating a holiday song “Charlie Brown Christmas Tree” with my wife/number 1 supporter Joelle

Now for 2024. I took an extra week off in December to work on new material. In fact, some songs have been 2 years in the making. I’ve got at least 10 on the go and can’t wait to share ‘em with you!

Happy New Year and see ya in '24!

Charlie Brown Christmas Tree released on December 1

 

I decided to make a holiday song thanks to a suggestion from a co-worker in late 2022. Last Christmas break I started creating the song and writing lyrics then continued to work on it throughout the year.

"Charlie Brown Christmas Tree" is a festive tribute to a small artificial tree from my first Christmas away from home. 

Poignant lyrics recall childhood memories as melancholic vocals blend with uplifting synths riffs, bells and piano to create a nostalgic soundscape. 

Some 25 years later, I still hold on to the ragged yet symbolic “Charlie Brown” Christmas tree, now embraced by my wife Joelle who sings soothing backing vocals.

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Watch for a music video coming soon!

Hope you enjoy my first holiday tune. Over the Christmas break I'll be tweaking a few demos for new singles coming in 2024. 

Boogeyman Trail music video release

"Boogeyman Trail” is the 3rd track on the Flashbacks album, a song celebrating the Halloween season that straddles the line between fun and fear in the forest.

I've always wanted to create a spooky song and horror video, thanks to John Carpenter scores, Stephen King novels, The Blair Witch and Stranger Things. 

The lyrics recall an activity we played in the woods during the late 70s/early 80s, which in this song ultimately devolves into fictional mayhem, with a twist at the end.  Best experienced on headphones, alone at night.

The music video for "Boogeyman Trail" is my second as a video producer, compiled using free video clips from Pexels.

Special thanks to Cottonbro Studio (Pexels) for the great clips of the kids.

Synths, vocals and lyrics: Larry Peach

Additional sound effects by Zapsplat

Song recorded and produced by Paul Morris aka The Music Box in Clare.

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Next up: Stay tuned for a holiday tune on December 1 and a second album in 2024.

Ambient streaming releases

This fall I decided to share my earliest instrumental songs made two years back in fall 2021 with my Casio workstation keyboard when I was transitioning from playing synth riffs from the 80s to creating original material. 

The first in my ambient series is called "Illumination", inspired by the beauty of sunrises and features a pan flute synth. 

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The second track called "Nocturnal Tableau" is about appreciating the solitude at night. 

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Hope you enjoy these short instrumental interludes that bridge the time between the release of my debut album and the next one, slated for release later in 2024. 

Synths: Larry Peach

The Dark Side (Doughboys)

 

“The Dark Side (Doughboys)” is the 5th track from the Flashbacks album, a song celebrating a hell-raising activity from my youth.

An inside joke for the club's alumni, our gang invented the pastime of "doughing" in the Southdale-North Woodside neighbourhoods of Dartmouth during the mid-80s.

At nightfall, clandestine dumpster diving at the Tim Horton's revealed a bounty of day-old doughnuts and timbits to used as biodegradable projectiles. 

Shenanigans transformed into suburban art as we glazed the streets, unsuspecting vehicles and unlucky pedestrians with a hodgepodge of pastries to create a veritable nocturnal tableau. 

Long before social media and mobile phones, the lack of photographic and videographic evidence of doughing may make you wonder if we made it all up. 

So this song is my little digital artifact to ensure the "Doughboys" legacy is immortalized and perhaps even inspire future teen generations to discover their own version of teenage tomfoolery. 

But for the safety and sanity of suburbia, let's hope that it doesn't.

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Peach on a beach (Larry Peach) is an emerging singer-songwriter and synth player creating nostalgic vibes. Influenced by 80s new wave and hip hop, 90s dance and comedy rock, Peach on a beach is recording several singles prior to the release of his upcoming album called Flashbacks.

Parcel Pickup

“Parcel Pickup” is the 6th track on the Flashbacks album, a tribute to my first job as a grocery store employee. 

I started working part-time at Sobeys during the summer of 1988 between my first and second year at SMU in Halifax.

Remember the big red bins and rollers that transported them to a loading area for pickup? Back when customer service was still a thing...

The lyrics recall the trials and tribulations of a typical shift of the never ending busyness of the front-end: hours full of price checks, spills, jar piles of carts and  ultimately bin screw ups.

 

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Peach on a beach (Larry Peach) is an emerging singer-songwriter and synth player creating nostalgic vibes. Influenced by 80s new wave and hip hop, 90s dance and comedy rock, Peach on a beach is recording several singles prior to the release of his upcoming album called Flashbacks.

New website launched: peachonabeach.ca

 

New Artist Website

Super pleased to share my new artist website!

Marc d'Entremont of Ghostjunk did a fab job creating a clean design! 😎🙏

Take a looksee.

Thanks to Music Nova Scotia for its financial contribution.

Also a reminder: You can order my new CD for $15 from the website. Free shipping anywhere in Canada.

Peach on a beach (Larry Peach) is an emerging artist creating nostalgic vibes. Influenced by 80s new wave and hip hop, 90s dance and comedy rock, Peach on a beach's debut album, Flashbacks, was released online on June 30, 2023. CD released on July 19, 2023.

Obligatory and shameless "How To Get a CD" post

How to Get a CD ?!

For anyone in Clare/SW Nova interested in a copy, the CD is yours for $15 cash or e-transfer (pls send a DM to coordinate a meet up).

Also available at these great retailers in Nova Scotia:

Clare: Chez Jean, Clarence's Shopping Mart, Maman Makes Gifts & More, Wissam's Pizza

Yarmouth: Seahags & Scallywags

Bedford/Dartmouth/Halifax: TAZ RECORDS

For everyone else:

I am offering FREE SHIPPING in August to anywhere in Canada for my loyal Facebook followers.

Simply DM your address and kindly send $15 via e-transfer to peachonabeachmusic@gmail.com and I will mail you the goods.

Thanks for the support!

Peach on a beach (Larry Peach) is an emerging artist creating nostalgic vibes. Influenced by 80s new wave and hip hop, 90s dance and comedy rock, Peach on a beach's debut album, Flashbacks, was released online on June 30, 2023. CD released on July 19, 2023.