Austin Peralta

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Austin Peralta, a pianist and composer based out of Los Angeles, works as a musician in a diversity of contexts both locally and internationally.

Trained as a classical pianist beginning at age 5, Peralta went on to include the litany of contemporary music genres from jazz onward in his palette as an artist. In addition to his work as a pianist, he composes, collaborates on, and produces music in a variety of different veins such as modern acoustic jazz, experimental hip-hop / electronica, world music, and multi-media audio/visual pieces among others. To date Peralta has recorded two albums as the leader of groups that include jazz luminaries Ron Carter, Billy Kilson, Buster Williams, Steve Nelson, and Marcus Strickland for 88’s, a Japanese subsidiary label of Sony Music. Notable collaborations have included The Cinematic Orchestra, Flying Lotus, Erykah Badu, Shafiq Husayn, Adam Rudolph’s Go: Organic Orchestra, & Horace Tapscott's Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra among many others.  At the 2007 Tokyo Jazz Festival, Peralta was part of a "dream team" piano quartet that included the legendary Chick Corea, Hank Jones, and Hiromi Uehara. He has studied with noted mentors Bruce Sutherland, Alan Pasqua, Buddy Collette, & Reggie Workman.

Peralta is member of the Brainfeeder artist roster along with Flying Lotus, Daedelus, The Gaslamp Killer, Strangeloop and many others.  His third album, a self-produced project, will be released on the Brainfeeder label in the fall of 2010.

Member Since:

July 12, 2006

Influences:

Mozart, John Coltrane, Rachmaninoff, Evgeny Kissin, Freddie Hubbard, Pink Floyd, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Chopin, Miles Davis, The Beatles, Bjork, Prokofiev, Clifford Williams, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Stanley Kubrick, Ram Dass, D.T. Suzuki, Osho, Annie Besant, Leigh McCloskey, Strangeloop, Alex Grey, Terence McKenna, Timothy Leary, David Lynch, Archie Shepp, Salvador Dali, Kenny Wheeler, Art Tatum, Beck, Beethoven, Ornette Coleman, Chick Corea, Blake, Shakespeare, Joe Henderson, Brahms, Schumann, Messiaen, Krystian Zimerman, Glenn Gould, Bach, Adam Rudolph, Ralph Miles Jones III, Charles Mingus, Nietzsche, Wagner, Henry Miller, Flying Lotus, Marvin Gaye, The Cinematic Orchestra, Scriabin, the ocean, Jimi Hendrix, Andrew Hill…

Sounds Like:

Chick Corea, Hank Jones, Hiromi Uehara, Austin Peralta (Sadao Watanabe, John Patitucci, Omar Hakim).

Record Label:

Brainfeeder