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Danish Sacred Music, 1826-1995
Music: While My Lady Sleeps [Original recording remastered]
About the Artist
The Pedal Steel Transmission has been performing in the Chicagoland area for two years. Its blend of unexpected dynamics and distressed ambience has gathered a large local following. The band wears its influences on its chest, from the Velvet Underground to Can, to other more folk inspired artists as Japancakes or John Fahey, but with a vocal style all its own. The underlying current is still rock and roll, but the nature is improvisation. The band frequently performs amidst 8 and 16mm films that add to the group's fractured approach at songwriting. Their first album, "That Ain't Right" was released in March of 2000. The second, "In the Winter, It makes the Dead Grass Look Green" is to be released on January 19th, 2002. The Album was recorded at Chicago's Blaise Barton Studios, and focuses on the band's more emotional material. The addition of drummer Don Ogilvie (formerly of Denver's Felt Pilotes, and Crestfallen) has propelled the band's music to new heig hts of energy and complexity. Midwest and Western support for the album is being planned for 2002.
Album Description
This is the Pedal Steel Transmission's first album, the stripped country-noise rock debut, where every corner feeds a new exploration, a new gem; sweeping pedal steel meets wide-open guitars at every corner. Recorded in 1999 at Airwave Studios by Stevce Mezger. 10 songs, 70 minutes.