Peter andrej

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Peter Andrej is a Slovenian poet, musician, guitar player, studio producer and the producer of the biggest slovenian festival of singers-songwriters – KantFest.

Beside his own songs, he has put to music poems of: P. Eluard, F.G. Lorca, B. Brecht, O. Župančič, E. Vouk, B. A. Novak, B. Namestnik, A. Šteger, etc. He has also been a guest of many stages – Festival Lent, Cankarjev dom, Borštnik meeting, KUD France Prešeren and international stages in Trieste, Macedonia, etc.

Nowadays, his main project is the new varieté Rože za F (Flowers for F), which has had many successful reprises and it will be also seen and heard on this year's Festival Lent. After rediscovering his original artistic roots, Peter Andrej has been preparing the outburst of a totally fresh, rock album Libero in cooperation with Drago Mlinarec, Ciril Sem – percussion instruments, Matjaž Krivec - contra bass, Dejan Berden – piano, harmonica, Peter Jan – solo guitar.

He is also a composer of music and shows for children. The puppet show Jezernik, povodni mož iz Črnega jezera (Laky, the aqua man from the Black Lake) is the latest of his creations for children and is presented in partnership with the storyteller, Jasna Branka Staman. Another album for children Kaj ima sonce najraje (What Sun loves the most) contains songs of Niko Grafenauer, Boris A. Novak and folk songs, accompanied by author's music.

"Peter Andrej. One of the best Slovenian authors" was an introduction, made by Jure Longyka (the creator of the brilliant music show Izštekani on the Radio Slovenia).

A poet and a translator Prof. Dr. Boris A. Novak said: "Peter Andrej is one of the most precious voices in Slovenian space. He is a poet and a musician in the same breath and he manages to connect these two arts in a noble synthesis of instrumental poetry."

Maestro Bojan Adamič marked the music on the album Pohorske Poti (The ways of pohorje, 1994, 2003) with these words: "It will be very hard for a listener to press a button to turn off the waviness and the glow of this melancholic and tender touch of music, of which only mistake is that it ends too soon." 'Italic text''Italic text'