Peter Kernel

Peter Kernel ist das Duo der kanadischen Sängerin Barbara Lehnhoff und dem Tessiner Gitarristen Aris Bassetti. Beide stammen ursprünglich eher aus der Ecke der musikalischen, klanglichen und visuellen Experimente. Man könnte also von zwei Künstlerpunks sprechen, die ihre Musik auf die minimale und primäre Ebene zurückführen. Um ihre musikalische Vision zu verbreiten, haben sie das Label On the Camper Records gegründet, bei dem auch ihre drei Alben sowie jene von Camilla Sparksss (Soloprojekt von Barbara Lehnhoff)  erschienen sind.

Peter Kernel is a Swiss Canadian post-pop-art-punk duo formed by Aris Bassetti and Barbara Lehnhoff (Camilla Sparksss). They are working together and releasing their own music since 2005. They started when Barbara asked Aris to write the music for her experimental musical Like A Giant In A Towel (Locarno International Film Festival 2006).

In 2008 PK released their first album How To Perform A Funeral followed by The Ticket Ep on 10’’ vinyl in 2009, both for their own label On The Camper Records. They were spotted by Spencer Krug from the Canadian band Wolf Parade (Sub Pop) and invited them to open for their European tour in September 2010. On February 2011 the experimental soundtrack Il Pomeriggio Non Si Sa Mai Bene Cosa Fare was released, followed by the experimental short film Man & Nature (On The Camper Records). On October 3rd 2011 PK released White Death & Black Heart again for On The Camper Records in collaboration with French label Africantape. The album received a huge and warm welcoming across Europe and America, launching Aris and Barbara straight into the heart of the European music scene. After a few years on the road intensely touring, in 2015 they released their latest album Thrill Addict. Medias, radios and fans responded to with a huge amount of love. The album release show in Paris was sold out and after only a few months since its release Thrill Addict is already being reprinted.

In the past years Peter Kernel have played over 800 concerts across Europe and Canada. Their music is fully empty and simply complicated. It’s pop, it’s rock, it’s experimental and this is why they were called to play in many different situations like Paleo Festival or Montreux Jazz Festival, the fashion week in Milan, swimming pools, the Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris, heavy noise festivals, museums and concert halls like the HMV Forum in London or the Soundlabs Festival in a stadium in Italy. In a very natural way Aris and Barbara express themselves through sounds and songs; sometimes they can be very sweet and other times they can be very intense and noisy. Their sense of melody has been recognised many times throughout the years from a variety of journalists.

In 2016 they scored the music of Il Nido, a film by the Swiss Peruvian film director Klaudia Reynicke. The film has been world premièred at Locarno International Film Festival 2016. The same year they have been nominated amongst the most important musicians of Switzerland for the Swiss Music Grand Prix. In 2017 they re-arrange their best songs for viola, harp, piano, cello, harmoniuzm and percussions and start a special project called Peter Kernel & Their Wicked Orchestra. They release an EP and they start tooruing Europe receiving a huge interest in the formula.

In 2018 they released their 4th studio album The Size Of The Night. An important album considered by the audience and the media “one of the most beautiful of the band”. It went straight into the best album of the year for many magazines and webzines in all of Europe. The same year the write the music for the web series La Strategia Dell’Acqua for the Swiss Italian Television. In 2019 they score the movie L’Ombra Del Figlio by the film director Fabio Pellegrinelli.

In 2020 they released Perseverance: 15 Years Of Peter Kernel: a special double LP including demos, b-sides, unreleased tracks, live versions… to celebrate the anniversary.



Live au Bateau Ivre, 2022
https://youtu.be/RlMbSx5_fwg?si=sha_pFOsXOJeouvm

live 2023
https://youtu.be/symDPPPdG-Q?si=l2X5NS-9l0yUMzkm

live in Turin 2023
https://youtu.be/3AQgp7Pv3p8?si=BWC6VQbCbOOQU3lU

Men of the Woman
https://youtu.be/s4nqLtSnmjU?si=Y-75HGOnD0F25oKo

Homepage
https://www.peterkernel.com/

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/peterkernel?

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/peterkernel/


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“One of the most refreshing, out of the box, duo-bands to be releasing an extraordinary album.”
— Louder Than War

“If you are open to dark, brooding experimental sounds, you will be richly rewarded.”
— The Rock Club

“Peter Kernel yet again, you can never have too much Peter Kernel”
— The Organ

“...must-hear...”
— Punkonline

“If you don't know this band, you should. 8/10”
— The Quietus

“J'en suis convaincu, on tient là le meilleur groupe de toute une génération.”
— Indie Rock Mag