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Having played late sixties acid rock in high school, classical guitar at Syracuse for a year and 3 years at Wesleyan University studying composition under the great Bill Barron, Peter Wallach arrived in New York completely confused. His aimlessness continued as he played in alternative bands throughout the nineties culminating simultaneously with hundreds of musical promotional pieces for Showtime, Lifetime and The Movie Channel AND the ultra complex yet intentionally derivative album "Let's Get Down" (which he recorded with his band, Downboy). This was only made worse by a year of study with the legendary Wayne Krantz who demonstrated in the first five minutes of his first lesson that improvisational guitar is all but impossible to master. What followed was a period of several years of shaking off musical demons and clearing of the palate to find his true path. After a very lengthy audition process with a gold record recipient from the eighties freestyle movement, Mr. Wallach stumbled upon his musical soulmates who would soon form the core of the new latin and world-flavored fusion band Sangha Tierra. Combining elements of rock, blues, jazz, salsa, reggae, and a host of other fun influences, and a playful and silly use of technology involving classic overdriven hyper-wound humbuckers, guitar synths, whammy bars, and the occasional DeWalt power drill, Mr. Wallach has finally found his musical home, and not a moment too soon. He lives in Northern New Jersey with his wife, three children, an insane puppy, and sixteen guitars that all need new strings. Peter supports The Pediatric Cancer Foundation |
