<h1>Short:</h1>
Devastating incites into the human condition and songs of a literary bent from Melbourne musician/librarian/Japanophile.

<h1>Long:</h1>
After finishing his composition degree at the VCA in Melbourne 2001, Peter went on a scholarship to live in Kyoto for 3 years.  In Japan, he studied Koto and Shamisen, and composition and musicology at the KCUA.   To the consternation and bemusement of the  university, he also started playing shows under the name of "Humansixbillion" at venues around the city singing songs accompanied by guitar, laptop, sampler and synth. After taking the use of technology to excess, he changed Humansixbillion into a band with the help of a group of sympathetic local Japanese musicians.  Singing half his songs in English and half in Japanese, he consistently managed to gather quizzical and puzzled amusement wherever he played.  In 2005 he felt it was time to return to his homeland Australia where, with his new wife Fumiko, he assembled a rockier incarnation of the band. Between 2005-2007 they played gigs in Melbourne and other Australian cities, with occasional trips to Japan. in 2008, Peter decided he was done with the humansixbillion moniker altogether and started playing under his given name. This also signaled a new direction musically, moving towards a more stripped back musical style that highlighted his talents as a lyricist. The coincided with his return to university to study librarianship and his consequent employment at the State Library of Victoria and the Victorian Parliamentary Library.
Whilst playing in Humansixbillion he composed the soundtrack for the feature film "Burke and Wills" which was lauded by the Brisbane Daily News for it's "morbid, low-key songs (that) sound a bit like Nick Drake back from the dead" at the same time as being described by Triple J radio as "drop-dead-gorgeous". In 2006 Humansixbillion released "5 Short Songs About Forever" which was included in radio RRR presenter Ryan Egan's top self releases for the year. In a review of a show of the same year Beat Magazine's Andy Hazel described Peter Head as "one of the song writers to watch for 2007". In 2007 Humansixbillion released an E.P. called "The Night is a Movie and the Sun is a Star", including the track Gathering Steam of which RRR program "To and Fro" said "listen with an open heart and just try not to be carried away". In November 2007 Humansixbillion released a single for the Australian Federal election campaign about the Iraq war, played shows interstate in Sydney and Brisbane, internationally in Japan and supported The Sea And Cake in Melbourne.
Peter regularly records with other notable Melbourne musicians to add songs to an <h2>Audioblog at http://whatsinalabel.com/pjh.</h2>
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<h2>Reviews</h2>
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<h3>The Night is a Movie, the Sun is a Star</h3>
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"Peter J. Head's combo make transcendent indie pop - a big dollop of smart lyrics, a touch of twee, a smidge of skittery post-punk rhythm, a great wash of golden guitars - and mix it together in a way completely different to anything else around town at the moment. Listen to Gathering Steam with an open heart and just try not to be carried away by the enormous build under that beautiful swaying guitar line.
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 To and Fro, Radio RRR Oct 9 2007
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<h3>Burke and Wills Soundtrack</h3>
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"drop-dead-gorgeous soundtrack"
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 Marc Fennell, JJJ radio, Oct 2007
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"Black humour is also provided in a soundtrack by Humansixbillion, led by musician Peter J. Head, whose morbin, low-key songs sound a bit like Nick Drake back from the dead."
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 Brisbabe News, July 2007
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<h3>5 Short Songs About Forever</h3>
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"Peter Head is at the core of humansixbillion
His unpretentious everyman voice lifts higher and higher as he ponders conference calls and hamburgers, affinity and semi-permanence
 Head's poetry has a certain simplistic profundity to it ' his words spiral above tender acoustic guitar-based arrangements that every so soften dip into lushness"
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 Adrian Trajtsman, Mess & Noise, Mar/Apr 2007
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<h3>Live</h3>

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"They blindsided me, appearing from around yet another concrete corner to brighten a gloomy Melbourne winter"
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 To and Fro, Radio RRR Oct 9 2007

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"Peter J. Head is the songwriter to watch in 2007"
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Andy Hazel, Beat Magazien Oct, 2006
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