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PETER PRASA
Poets & Heroes
by Gary Wien
What do you do when your
music doesn’t quite fit into any
particular genre?
In an industry that lives on
nicely packaged descriptions
like rock, jazz, and country,
what happens when your
music is all three?
Somerville’s Peter Prasa
found himself in that situa-
tion with the release of his
second album, Poets & He-
roes. On CDbaby.com, he
chose to describe the record
as Avant Garde and Avant-
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Americana. Both make sense.
Songs on the album blend
the sophistication of jazz with
the wordsmith approach of a
singer-songwriter. They are
like wonderful short stories that
grab the listener and create a
world of their own.
“It’s hard to classify my music,”
explained Prasa. “Singer-song-
writer is what a lot of people
said to do, but they say that
area is saturated. It’s kind of
Americana but there are differ-
ent styles of music too.”
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