Peter
Muller was born on the 6th October 1969 and grew up in a musical family.
His father played acoustic bass and piano and so Peter came into contact
with Jazz very early. He started to learn classical acoustic guitar at
the age of nine, taking lessons for about five years. It was during this
period that he became interested in funk music. His ears were totally
drawn to the sound of the bass and he started to slap on his guitar,
trying to sound like all the contemporary bass players he was hearing.
Peter grabbed at the chance when a friend of his father’s offered him
an old Hoefner electric bass guitar and from then on concentrated solely
on bass. He listened to just about everything he could, learning from
players like Mark King, Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller. Eventually he
decided that he needed a bass more suited to the kind of music he was in
to. So in 1983, at the age of 14, he bought the second hand Fender Jazz
Bass (Serial No. S8852622) that is still his main instrument today.He
became a professional musician in 1987 and like most professionals
played all kinds of gigs in all kinds of musical situations.
Subsequently he toured all over Europe and undertook many studio
sessions. Peter became a popular bass player, favoured for his heavy
groove and his passion for funk. In the second half of the 90`s he
discovered his composing skills and started to write is own music. He
also felt that producing music could be an interesting new perspective
for him.
In 2000 he became member of the Frank Mead Band, which was an important
step in his development as an artist.
In 2001 he put his own studio, “Wave Island”, together and it was
only a few months later that he decided it was finally time to release
his first album, which eventually took over a year to complete. When
Frank heard the initial results in 2002, he was so knocked out that he
offered to play saxophone on the album. Later that year Frank asked
Peter to produce his own debut album. They worked on both CDs in the
first half on 2003 and when they were finished, Peter decided to found
his own label, “MULLENNIUM RECORDS”. Both albums were finally
released in July 2003
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