Peter Oren

“I wandered lonely as a cloud.” Emphasis on lonely.

Troubadour, vagabond, carpenter, folk-singer Peter Oren broke out in 2017 with his mythological heavy Anthropocene, with themes as crushing as his rumbling bass-baritone voice. Seven years on, Cloud Song finds him wrangling with both physical troubles and existential dread. In his view, the old Wordsworth poem can be played as a life untethered, for better and worse, from the earth. Beautiful and pensive, Oren’s Cloud Song lingers long after the first listen. We talked with him below.