"Phippen has his own style - a style worth noticing."
~ Arizona Daily Sun
For several years, Phippen has been releasing his albums on Sam Rosenthal’s Projekt label. The last two, Primordial Forest (2023) and Earthly (2024), feature the Norwegian musician Ivar Lunde Jr., whose sumptuous synthesizers are also present on the recent The Phantom Moon. The new element in this album is the dreamy voice of Paulina Fae, a darkwave muse with many works released under various names over the past twenty years. Her sighs and pagan prayers alternate with the velvety tones of Phippen’s flute, sailing like caravels on the ocean of sound created by the synthesizers – NEW AGE FOR HEALING​ - Roberto MandoliniRockerilla Music Magazine (Italy)
The album opens with the title track, “Earthly”, where flutes and synthesizers blend like fog lifting in dawn’s first light. Each note feels like a revelation, as though the instruments themselves had patiently waited for millennia to finally speak. In “Eye of the Day” and “Essence”, we drift deeper, meeting sunlit melodies and eerie nocturnal whispers in equal measure. It’s a little unsettling, like being lulled by a lullaby sung by wolves and wind. And yet, it’s irresistible.
- Vito Camarretta
Chain DLK, Italy
"Primordial Forest' is a unique musical experience, a fascinating journey into the heart of consciousness and nature. It invites everyone to lose themselves in the mysteries of music and explore unknown sonic territory. May this music transport you to mysterious soundscapes and connect you with the depths of your own being."
- Olivier Lehoux
"Solénopole Radio"
France
"The sounds of his [Phippen's] solo flute improvisations are at once mysterious, graceful, refined, and captivating, the sound surrounding the listener like a warm blanket on a cold starlit night from the top of a precipice, the waves of shimmering sonic beauty wafting across the sky."
- Peter Thelen,
"Exposé Online"
"Peter is a real Phenomenon. He has shown a real talent with early Native American Aerophones. I hope others will enjoy his music as much as I."
– Dr. Richard W. Payne, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Author of "The Native American Plains Flute," "The Hopi Flute Ceremony" and "Indigenous Aerophones of the Northwest Coast"
"Crawford’s crystal bowls lay the groundwork upon which Phippen's antique shakuhachi flute vibrations soar. Lunde's cosmic synthesized soundscapes assist in unfolding the magic from Spirit, creating captivating imagery from all that is Mother Nature."
- Projekt Records
" This album highlights Phippen’s in-depth exploration of the old instruments: each flute saturated with a shadowy, gossamer voice. With Ivar Lunde’s shimmering panorama of sound and Phippen’s transcendent playing, these recordings mellifluously illustrate the gauzy veil of perception that separates the now from the airy world of the spirits. Phippen’s haunting flute timbres breezily float on the airstream causing the veil to billow, creating a thinning of the filmy curtain to reveal that which has been a mystery for millennia.”
​ – Dr. Kathleen Joyce-Grendahl