Classic & contemporary Pop-Rock with a progressive touch.

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"Peter Yttergren/Another World
Rating: 4/5

Peter Yttergren is unlikely to be a name familiar to you. A drummer, pianist, singer, composer from Örebro, Sweden who, after several decades of session drumming, has finally gone it alone.

But the surprise is, this album sounds nothing like a solo album from a skins-man. It's a classic piece of AOR.

Raised on Genesis, and a healthy dose of West Coast soft rock, these are influences that are clearly visible across the whole of this excellent album.

This Land opens with a gentle beat, synth and keyboards. The vocals fall between pre and post Gabriel Genesis. It's a great opener and a taster of what's to come.

But it's a varied album - distinctly AOR, but with a number of instrumental / semi classical pieces thrown in, all of which add to the overall package. If Only is a brief piano / strings piece and MLE a semi classical flute / lead guitar number. Aftermath another track that wouldn't be out of place on a 1970s Camel album. And While I Breathe is a piece of solo acoustic work that wouldn't be out of place on a Jan Akkerman album.

The main meal though is an AOR smorgasbord. Emile is a stand out track - a lovely ballad, falling somewhere between Toto, and Steely Dan with some excellent lead guitar work from Bob Melanson. Lorraine is pure Don Henley meets Toto, influences appear again on the up tempo Make a Change and The Trail Of Our Past.

The more melodic Genesis influences resurface on In Another World, Without Your Heart. Nothing At All throws some wonderful sax into the mix on a schmaltzy number that could be a Henley/Collins duet. Unspoken is pure Henley.

Written and recorded over a 3 year period, Another World is a slice of melodic AOR as good as anything you'll find this side of your local branch of Ikea.
PETE WHALLEY/Get Ready To Rock"

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"Peter Yttergren
Another world
(Nergretty Music)
Rating 3.5/5
Peter Yttergren is a real talented musician that lives and breathe Genesis for breakfast,lunch and dinner - his debut solo album "Another world" takes the listener on a journey through the 80's albums with Genesis with a touch of westcoast tendencies a la Don Henley,Steely Dan and Michael McDonald. Especially the keyboardharmonies reminds a lot of Tony Banks as well as David Foster while Peter's voice gives the music that special westcoast vibe. This album contains songs written and recorded during the last 3 years with musicians from seven different countries,making this a global project. Peter has hooked up with guitarist and friend Ove Lundqvist (Crystal Blue) to form a band and record material for a follow up to "Another world"

The progressive "This land" opens the album in the finest Genesis tradition and the upbeat pop pearl "Without your heart" is flirting with Mike and The Mechanix.
Peter shows what a great melody maker he is in the ToTo sounding ballad "Emilie",in the title track "In another world" my thoughts go to the Swedish progpop band Dive feat. phantom singer Krister Linder aka Chris Lancelot.
The instrumental "If only" sounds like a collaboration with David Foster for a soundtrack theme,just adorable!
One of my favorites is "Lorraine" that could've been an unreleased track with Don Henley,absolutely amazing.
The groovy and rhythmic "Make a change" is the result of how a westcoast song should sound like if Tony Banks recorded it,nice. I suggest you pay a visit to his website and learn more about Peter Yttergren,let's just hope he will focus on more upbeat songs on the next record.
KAJ ROTH/Melodic.net"

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"Peter Yttergren
Another world
(Nergretty Music)
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Heard of Peter Yttergren from Örebro? Thought so. For me a new acquaintance. A very good one at that. With the risk of being bullied, four stars again!? But the CD is in fact that good. The drummer offers music on the border of Phil Collins-land. Melodic and very rhythmical. Add to that a very competent group of background musicians from virtually all corners of the world. That Peter can sing very well doesn't hurt either. The music sometimes touches west-coast rock - hints of Toto - but is mostly brilliant pop from a professional craftsman that sounds like the perfect combination between Phil Collins and Don Henley (Eagles).
TORBJÖRN BERLIN/Örnsköldsviks Allehanda"

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Bio

Peter Yttergren is a drummer/pianist/singer/composer from Örebro, Sweden. Peter has worked extensively as a hired gun drummer, doing mostly live drumming during the 80-ties & 90-ties. He now embarks on a songwriting mission, determined to carry on the tradition of his influences.

Peter was born sometime during the last century in Örebro Sweden. At the early age of four he started playing the piano, having two elderly siblings who played. From the age of seven while in school, he took piano lessons at the local music school. A few years later he had his first encounter with music from a band that would have a big influence on his tastes in music as well as his own writing. The band was Genesis. Genesis offered something different from the contemporary pop music of the time and Peter enjoyed the dramatic sound, fascinating chord sequences and sometimes orchestral way of arranging the music.

At the age of twelve Peter started experimenting with song-writing, sometimes recording a few bits onto a mono tape recorder. At this time he also started to develop a keen interest in drums and drumming. Not yet owning a drum kit, Peter played on the family furniture to the joy of his parents. At age fifteen, after eight years of piano lessons, it was time to move on so he joined an improvisational group at music school, playing both piano and electric bass for awhile, but really wanted to have played the drums instead but that seat was already taken.

When turning seventeen, Peter bought his first drum kit and started practicing for several hours each day. After 3 months he joined his first band as a drummer, and after only 2 years of playing Peter taught drums at Medborgarskolan. During his early twenties he played in various bands and also started doing gigs as a hired musician. Most notably he replaced one of Sweden's most well-known drummers, Per Lindvall, as the live drummer for Ingemar Olsson.

In 1991 Peter bought his first music computer, an ATARI St system with the Creator/Notator midi sequencing software. With these new tools he started to focus on song writing, while continuing to play the drums in various bands. Some of the music he wrote during this period sometimes ended up as background music for interactive CD-ROM productions, but most songs was stored away in the local files.

During all his musical life Peter had always been singing when writing songs but most people never got to hear him singing. It was only in the mid nineties that he turned more attention to singing while doing drumming and background vocals in a cover band. Eventually he was persuaded to even sing the lead vocal on a few songs. He somewhat reluctantly assumed the role of lead vocalist (did he really want to do a Phil Collins?).

Fast-forward to 1999 and Peter now owned a PC based, Cubase-powered recording home studio. Peter had never really been part of the technical side of music production so he now had to start to learn all the basics about recording, effects and mixing. A lot of new material was written and recorded and put up on the web for all to hear! Since then Peter has not looked back and has continued to write a lot of material.

Through the music lounge at Cubase.net Peter met with guitarist Bob Melanson and they started collaborating on quite a few songs. Slowly the music started to get a small fan-base on the Internet. The music business started to show some interest in the material but nothing really materialised so with some encouragement from his peers Peter decided to start his own record label, Nergretty Music, and produce his own CD.

His debut CD, entitled "Another World", contains songs that were written and recorded during the last 3 years. On the CD Peter is collaborating with musicians and writers from seven different countries, making this a truly global project. During the latter stages of the production of the CD, Peter hooked up with long-time friend and Guitarist Ove Lundqvist, the driving force behind Swedish band Crystal Blue. Peter and Ove are now looking towards forming a band to play the material of Another World and record material for the next Peter Yttergren album...