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Please tell our readers who you are and what you do?
I'm Noah Peterson, I'm the CEO of Peterson Entertainment, llc (www.petersonentertainment.com) – a boutique record label, event production company, and music services company in San Antonio, Texas, USA. Currently, I'm working on major events for and in the city of San Antonio. I produced a couple of different concert series/mini-fests. I have a record catalog of over 50 titles (with more coming out VERY soon), my youtube channel has over 1,000 videos of live performances, produced videos, and interviews. I do some booking for venues/clients, but they come and go, I do artist development and advocate for musicians rights. I run two FB groups – one is business and promotion tools for musicians, the other is musicians rights and advocacy. I'm a long-time member of the American Federation of Musicians, I'm a performer, composer, arranger, band leader, side man, and musician for hire. I'm primarily a saxophonist, I'm also a skilled loop station artists. I sing (preferably back-ups), play a little flute, clarinet, keys, rather decent at hand-percussion (NO bongos/congas), and am the best froittoir player in Texas. I make, play, and record all kinds of music: jazz, blues, funk, electronic, electro-dub, waltz, ballads, latin, reggae, gospel, noise, ambient, avante garde, zydeco, folk, rock….
I have my own loop station show (2: The Solo Sax Sessions and i sing the sax electric) a Nujazz duo: GrooveTronX, a rock band: West Kings Highway, and my jazz combos: The Noah Peterson Quartet/Trio/Duo, etc… I have recording partners in different cities and even do online collaborations – O.M.N.I. a Texas/New York collaboration of electro-dub that is quite extraordinary. I also get hired for one-off gigs and recordings for local and touring artists coming through town.
I constantly study the industry and live, breathe, work, and dream music and the music biz. I'm always reaching out for new partners and deals, always trying to find new ways to get my music out and promote the products on my label, and employing all kinds of strategies to up those streams and video views, all while keeping on top of copyright issues, lawsuits, trends, and keeping my fingers in the local scene.
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How would you describe your influences and how have they changed over the years?
At first my influences were top 40 radio and my older sister. Growing up in the 70s she seemed so cool and the bands she listened to wasn't quite what I was getting in my radio habits. Although I did gravitate towards some different things. The first record I ever bought was John Lee Hooker's "Boom, Boom" (not the 1992 release). I got into the blues, those horrible video game songs from the 80s "Pacman Fever" "Frogger" etc…country, metal, and shied away from the prog-rock that everybody else was into. Hair bands in the 80s were epic. And then MTV came along….that changed things. After that it was mostly what my friends in school turned me onto, although I spend a lot of time at record stores browsing and buying things that I liked. Lots of sax music of course. I did study piano for 9 years so there was that, plus all the school band and choir repertoire. My dad was a band director, so the band director kids kind of had our own little thing when we'd travel to music galas where we'd hang out and talk music. I went into the Marines as a bandsman and was stationed at the 29 Palms Field Band after attending the Armed Forces School of Music. Suffice to say I still have a strong love for Sousa and march music. By this time I was digging all kinds of things and getting into non-standard musics. I liked difficult things, non-standard time signatures, improv, etc… And meeting people from across the U.S. (and the world) with different ideas, tastes, and listening history opened up even more music to my ears. After the Marines was college and a New Music course blew the top off of things: avant garde, music concrete, noise, math music, world music… it was on. I joined every type of band I could imagine: avante garde, punk, West African Marimba/mbira, an art ensemble, jazz, rock, indie pop, reggae, fusion, singer/song writers, folk, funk, disco, blues, zydeco…. I wrote, I toured, I recorded, I listened. In my involvement in the looping world I've now got music making friends across the globe who make things that sometimes defy description. It's awesome. What I've found is that my biggest influences are and always have been the people I'm around and the people I'm making music with. They influence everything I do. Their playing affects me far more than the records they turn me onto. I've always liked new things that are excellent. And there's still stuff going on that I've never heard of.
What´s new right now?
For 2018 – I've got a First Friday residency with my band West Kings Highway at Southtown 101 in San Antonio. Every other Friday night we're at our residency at Sanchos Cantina San Antonio. That band is coming along quite nicely. My Nujazz group, GrooveTronX has two new live releases out: Bright Lights Big City and Electric Aesthetic, both on Spotify, bandcamp, apple music, etc… We've got a residency at Halcyon: 2nd and 4th Thursdays and third Friday.
I'm working on a new digital release for my looping show, that's coming out in the near future. O.M.N.I. is releasing our third effort of space themed electro-dub called "Laniru and Andar: The Shared Visions of the Solar Plasma Blaster." That should be ready to go in your favorite streaming platform by this weekend. It's a lot more reggae than previous two records, but still dubtastic!
I've got two "new" releases of the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra from 1955 that are going to be coming out very soon. These are never heard recordings. So for fans of the big band era, keep an ear out for these treasures! Widespread Noise – my noise project has a new recording out called "Blackfly" that's pretty different if you like non-standard musics. And I'm trying to sign a record from Japanese artist Chiko Matasumoto. I've also put up a dozen new videos on my channel in the past few weeks including an emotional and powerful civil rights tribute from poet Emmett Wheatfall called "Miles to Go"
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Are you a superfan of anyone? How did you become a superfan? Do you remember how you become a fan and what turned you into super fan? Have you ever thought about why you´re such a fan?
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What was the biggest mistake you made when you started making music and what would be the number one tip you could give to a newcomer musician?
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How do you get gigs? Can you share any tips?
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Do you have good promotion tips for other musicians?
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Do you have insights on how to grow your audience on soundcloud that you want to share with our audience?
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What has been your biggest challenge right now? Have you been able to overcome that challenge? If so, how?
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How do you personally discover new music?
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Once you discovered new music, do you tell others about the new music/artist you discovered? If yes, how exactly?
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What is your number one tip to improve your music production or songwriting skills?
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What is your best tip for those who struggle with finishing their tracks?
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We meet again in one year. What has changed?
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