Emery Pace Archer (EP) is a performer, composer, poet and educator. As a healer and humanist, EP finds inspiration in the underscore of energetically intense connection, collaborative performance art of all kinds and creative synergy. EP currently works as a Teaching Artist with the Colorado Symphony’s Very Young Composer program, and is developing a songwriting module for the Lamont School of Music at DU. With 25 years professional experience as a performing musician, a MM in Jazz, EP is the composer, lyricist and author of CRESCENT HEARTS, a full scale collaborative rock opera in progress. Their most recent release UNDERNEATH is an album of songs they currently perform on voice, violin, piano and guitar. EP is an advocate for LGBTQ+ community, especially those in the arts, and a proud member of the universal community of oneness, diversity and love.
Album
UNDERNEATH
EP Archer’s debut release, Underneath, spans the course of over nine years, containing a slew of poetic lyrics informed by the artist’s yearning, childbirth, cancer surgery and treatment, recovery, estrangement, a coming out story and the journey towards unconditional love, all of which stayed pent up in this songwriter’s heart until 2018.
The songs range from pop and hip hop influenced to jazz and string orchestrations, to gritty angst-sung poetry in a minor key, all indie, all fresh and all littered with blood and love. The songs were all conceived, performed and arranged by the composer, lead singer and multi-instrumentalist, EP Archer.
