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LPRay Charles "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music"
The pedal steel guitar is music's accent mark: In country, it sighs and moans, matching a singer's despair with notes that hang in empty, desolate space. Or it can shoot up in quick little licks, dousing a bucolic beat in flammable spirits. In rock, it's a gilding texture, filling space with a tone that's less blunt than an organ and more nuanced than a six-string's predictable moves. The well-played pedal steel is often sterling, rarely the star.Raleigh quartet Starmount, though, builds around the wispy steel lines of longtime producer and bandleader Greg Elkins. Crafty drummer Brian Donohoe decorates the basic meter with tricks lifted from Sunny Murray and experimental dance music; upright bassist Dave Pitts eases his rich notes in, letting them out slowly, like exhalations in a snowstorm; and tasteful electronics controller Rob Davis adds textures that bubble up from the surface, assuming the pedal steel's normally undercover role. On Starmount's 10-track debut, the resplendent Tyranny of the Sphere, these roles coalesce beautifully...http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/starmounts-tyranny-of-the-sphere/Content?oid=1230813
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