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The albums, complete and in order, plus a new song every weekend. The channel opens with the premieres of Backroads and Fire in the Wire.
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Peter Blacksmith
Fifty years of work from one workshop. Songs in every genre and many languages, oil paintings, watercolours and photographs, gathered here as a living archive.
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The new home of my music
All my albums now live on one channel: rock, chanson, opera, reggae, blues and more, sung by the whole Blacksmith family. Every album is a concept album, made to be heard from the first track to the last. A new song appears every weekend as a first taste of the albums to come.
The Music Forge
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The workshop's playground. Experiments, ethno-trance, single tracks and everything that does not belong on an album yet.
Visit The Music ForgeAlbums
Released albums
Each album has its own story and one voice throughout. New albums are added here as they are released.
Premiere 21 Nov · 21:00
Backroads
Peter Blacksmith · 2026 · 9 tracks · 41:32 · American-tinged rock
Songs about the open road, from the title track to Don't push me around.
Tracklist
- Backroads 3:44
- Where the pines grow tall 4:49
- Call of the road 5:20
- Chrome on my boots 3:35
- I get up every time you try to run me down 3:49
- It's a long way to nowhere 5:08
- I can't promise I'll be true 5:45
- Watch me walk 5:45
- Don't push me around 3:37
Premiere 21 Nov · 22:00
Fire in the Wire
Peter Blacksmith · 2026 · 9 tracks · 44:48 · Rock
Tracklist
- Fire in the Wire 4:16
- I Will Never Give Up 3:38
- Bending with the Tide 4:11
- Echo of the Turning Sky 5:54
- Shelter Me 5:16
- The Maze 4:38
- Guardian Angel 4:46
- Ellen 5:37
- A Band Called Whispering Wind 6:32
Opera buffa
Fabiano e Francesca
Fabiano Fabro · 2026 · 15 tracks · 30:53 · Italian comic opera
A pizza-making contest decides who wins Francesca's hand.
Tracklist
- Prefazione 0:38
- La gloria del mattino 2:22
- Tra schiuma e sospiri 1:47
- Tra amici e amore 1:40
- No no Francesca 2:42
- Da Napoli a Roma 2:15
- Con un forno non si sposa 2:02
- Nel silenzio della notte 2:02
- La pizza nel forno 1:28
- Un miracolo nel forno 2:17
- La pizza divina 2:14
- La pizza del destino 4:52
- Chi comanda? Il cuore 1:30
- Il trionfo d'amore 1:35
- Gloria, gloria, gloria d'amore 1:29
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New albums appear here when they are released.
In the forge
Engel aus EisenGerman rock · Wolfgang Stahlschmied
Quand tout s'effaceFrench chanson · Pierre Forgeron
The Travels of Mister BBigband jazz · Mister B
Smoky for PresidentReggae · Smoky Blacksmith
Prussian BlueBlues · Howling Blacksmith
Gallery
Paintings and photographs
About
I like to forge things
My name is Peter Smits. In Dutch, Smits means smith, and that is where Peter Blacksmith comes from.
I have been writing songs for about fifty years. I played guitar, bass and drums in different rock bands, wrote most of our lyrics and music, and kept on writing long after the bands ceased to exist. Painting and photography came along the way. I am self-taught in all of it and use every trick in and out of the book to express what I feel.
For a long time one thing held my songs back: I do not sing. Today, in my self-built studio The Music Forge, modern technology lets me give every song the voice it needs. That is how the Blacksmith family was born: Peter Blacksmith for European rock and singer-songwriter, Billy Blacksmith for American rock, Pierre Forgeron for French chanson, Wolfgang Stahlschmied for German rock, Smoky Blacksmith for reggae, Fabiano Fabro for Italian opera and many more. Every name is a translation of the same surname.
This website is my archive. Everything I make ends up here, so it can be found, heard and seen, now and later.
In my workshop: 28 guitars and basses, different amplifiers, my old drum kit and Roland V-Drums, Ableton full of plugins, a lot of analogue gear, and plenty of patience and passion.