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Peter J Hochstedler: Smoke That Rose From the Old House
The Saltpeter Wars is a 2012 collection of DIY self-released songs of resistance and defeat by Lansing Michigan based anti-folk artist, Peter J Hochstedler. Per his website, “its geography is varied but centers around a mountain, a brain, under siege. Buses blow up, mountain people pickax the raw material of bombs from mine tunnels, and a strange old child sets off from his mountain home on a raft into the Pacific as the moon watches enhaunting.”
Peter also successfully Kickstarted the more recent Necrobisect LP which released in 2014. In his own words via his social site, the newer release is about “growing up with war and power and money so mapped out in this plastic brain we got. It’s about trying to make a life, a living, in the face of God or the Machine or whatever. It’s about sanity and anger. You might say it’s about death, separation, and the American Wet Dream.”
Both releases are quite masterful although we first came across The Saltpeter Wars and thought that would be a nice introduction, specifically the heartfelt and evocative song, Smoke That Rose From the Old House. You can further support this artist at his links below, including several more releases to explore dating back to early 2009.
Cover art here is by Kelsey Garrity-Riley
