Peter Bloom Opens For Juliana Sparks CD Launch

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Toronto-based singer/songwriter Peter Bloom will be opening the launch of Juliana Sparks long-awaited CD entitled “Juliana” at The Rivoli (334 Queen St. W., Toronto, east of Spadina) on May 7th at 8:00 PM. Performing as an acoustic trio, Peter will perform songs from his just-released full-length debut “Random Thoughts (from a paralyzed mind)“.

Peter Bloom has the perfect gift for all those people who let fear prevent them from breaking free and reaching their potential. Drawing emotional strength and wisdom from his own powerful personal life experiences, his album is an insightful, musically and lyrically compelling debut that chronicles his dramatic shift from years of self-doubt (and physical problems with his voice) to his current emergence as a critically acclaimed, award winning artist and performer.

His newly assembled band’s first gig in December 2007 at The Cameron House—one of the city’s hip musical venues—saw many fans lining up after the show to buy CDs and get autographs. One review described Bloom’s live performance as “pure heart and raw energy.” Leading up to Random Thoughts’ official national March 2008 release, Peter Bloom Band is also set to play Toronto hotspot The Horseshoe, and headline for over 1,000 people at a benefit show for DANI (Developing and Nurturing Individuals), a local organization that raises money to help special needs people become more independent.

What the press is saying:

“For (people) keen to try Canadian pop but put off by all the oddball Montreal indie acts, the answer may come in the shape of Peter Bloom. Earnest as a Toronto winter day is short, Bloom makes sweeping piano pop redolent of late Beatles ballads or Chris Martin at his most thoughtful.”
Download.Com – Editor’s Review

“Peter Bloom is a singer-songwriter who learned all the right lessons from John, George, Ringo and especially Paul – not to mention Elton John and John (Five For Fighting) Ondrasik. This is simply gorgeous piano/orchestral-based pop, carried to the next level by Bloom’s insightful lyrics and full-bodied melodic sensibilities.”
Jason Warburg, The Daily Vault

For more information on Peter Bloom, visit his website (peterbloomband.com) and MySpace (myspace.com/peterbloommusic)

For press and other inquiries, contact:
Eric de Fontenay
MusicDish LLC
ecfont@musicdish.net

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Life Takes Its “Tolle” – part 1 of 3

Although I very much respect and admire Oprah Winfrey for her tremendous career and her many philanthropic efforts, I don’t tend to read a specific book simply because Oprah told me to! However, recently I was inexplicably drawn to reading the latest offering from her current “life guru”, Eckhart Tolle. The book is called A New Earth – Awakening To Your Life’s Purpose. Tolle has managed to synthesize a vast amount of religious, philosophical, spiritual and even scientific ideas and insights into a rather simple, coherent and enlightening thesis that at its very core simply rings truer than anything else I’ve read on the subject. If you are at all a fan of Deepak Chopra and the like, it is well worth the read.

Throughout his book, Tolle illustrates how he believes we, on a physical (form) level, are actually all temporary manifestations of the creator, the “I Am”, or “God” – the universal intelligence or “Being” of which we are all a part, and which is timeless and formless. Try as we might, by the very fact that we are in a time and mind constrained form, we can never fully grasp this Being’s true nature. However, if we are able to silence our minds for a moment and in so doing be truly “present” in that moment, we can indeed catch “glimpses” of the true essence of this Being. Eventually, as we become more aware of being, as opposed to thinking or doing, we will find our stress levels reduced dramatically. Ultimately, we will find true inner peace – a peace and fulfillment that no amount of external achievement and/or accumulation can provide. In other words, when we finally come to accept the true nature of existence (the ego) and its (secondary) relationship and relevance to that of simply “Being”, we will find joy in every moment, no matter how seemingly mundane or even painful it may sometimes appear from a physical perspective. This enlightenment, or “awakening”, will set us free to live the life we are meant to live, however short or long…at every moment… and be happy doing so!

As I got deep into the book, I started to realize just how “in sync” I am with this man’s point of view. In fact, as I will demonstrate, I am starting to feel that a couple of the songs from my CD, Random Thoughts (from a paralyzed mind), are in some ways synopses of the key insights of A New Earth. It is as though, by some confluence of universal energy, while Tolle was busy writing the longhand prose version, I was busy writing the shorthand (hopefully poetic) version! I would like to believe that the seeming simultaneity of our creative works has some deeper significance with respect to the spiritual awakening of which Tolle writes. It would appear we are indeed connected. If only I could get Oprah to endorse my CD as well… I would be connected and RICH!!! Uh-oh… that’s my EGO talking!!!

Please check out part 2 of This Life Takes Its “Tolle” – which examines my song, Walls, and its relation to key concepts in Tolle’s book. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Please share it with others. Peace.

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Justin HINES – Award nomination!!!

Hey again…

ANOTHER of my favourite artists…also named Justin (HINES) has been nominated for a 2008 CANADIAN INDIE AWARD (Favourite folk/roots artist/group)! Justin Hines writes and sings songs that will make you feel not only that he has tremendous clarity and insight on this journey called life, but that you are taking the journey right along with him! Brilliant lyrics. Honest and earnest voice. Subtle & vulnerable, yet confident delivery. It all makes for a truly special musical experience.

So please visit http://www.indiscover.net/indies and cast your vote NOW! Thanks for supporting new and very deserving talent!

Peace.

Pete

Justin Nozuka – 2008 JUNO nominee!!!

He did, it, ladies and gents (no surprise, really)!!!

Justin Nozuka (with whom I had the honour of co-writing a track on his debut CD – Holly) has been nominated for the 2008 “New Artist Of The Year” JUNO AWARD!!!! This is such terrific news! Please take the time to go to his MySpace page (www.myspace.com/justinnozuka) and congratulate him…although he will no doubt soon be the JUNO WINNER too!!! Well, you can congratulate him again then!

(Just as an aside, the song we co-wrote, “If I Gave You My Life”, was just featured in the final montage of CBC TV’s “MVP” last Friday – pretty sweet! Man, can he SING!!!)

Peace.

Pete

NEW TUNE ON MYSPACE!!!

Hey!

Just to let you know, we’ve added a LIVE video of “Helping Hand” from our recent Horseshoe gig with UK sensation, Newton Faulkner. The video is grainy and its audio is a little rough, but it’s got a solid “rock concert” ending! So be sure to check out the video section. Enjoy…and thanks for your interest and support!

Peace.