Capital Region Music Veteran Releases First Solo LP

After 30 years in the music business — writing, recording, touring, and performing as a collaborator, bandmate, and sometimes sideman — Christopher Peifer has released his first full-length solo record. 

Peifer spent his formative years in the Capital Region in the 1990s playing with local artists like Sandy McKnight, Stephen Clair, John Powhida, the Staziaks, and Nick Bisanz. “One of my favorite bands, The Figgs, from Saratoga, have kept it going for 30 years, whereas in 30 years I’ve played in 30 bands,” he says.

Recorded over the past year and musically inspired by everyone from Elvis Costello to The Replacements, The Figgs to Roy Orbison and Hüsker Dü, the album “Suicide Mission” is “art and love in the time of coronavirus,” Peifer says. 

The title symbolizes the pursuit of a life in rock n roll, especially at a certain age, and likens it to a kind of suicide mission, or a kamikaze flight.  For more information about the album and downloads, go to: chrispei.bandcamp.com.