Heather Leigh

Pedal steel guitarist Heather Leigh is normally a composer, singer, improviser and visible artist. Because the 1990s she’s pressed the sonic and tonal limitations from the pedal metal beyond conventionally definable limitations. She also has guitar, keyboards, cuatro, psaltery, drums, bass, and harmonica. She represents her music as “high steel public for amplified strings and vocals that blow all notions of type and fidelity to parts.” Leigh was created in Western world Virginia, but was raised in and near Houston, Tx, where she discovered the pedal metal. She’s been recording being a single artist in cooperation and with several ensembles because the middle-’90s. Her catalog contains over three-dozen recordings from nearly as many brands, including her very own Wish Picture and Volcanic Tongue. She’s toured thoroughly as a single musician but also an associate of Ash Castles over the Ghost Coastline, Charalambides, Scorces (which she co-founded with Christina Carter), the Wish/Aktion Device (with Thurston Moore, Paul Flaherty, Chris Corsano, and Matt Heyner), Taurpis Tula, and Jailbreak (a duo with Corsano). She’s also caused Jandek, Richard Youngs, Smegma, and Jutta Koether, to mention a few. Being a visible musician, Leigh was the visual developer for the Pauline Oliveros Base Houston. Her function continues to be exhibited in america and the uk and provides adorned album addresses. Located in Scotland because the start of the hundred years, she and her partner, writer, critic and musician David Keenan, went the mail purchase music store and record label Volcanic Tongue from 2004-2015. Her albums, Which Brunette Up in Tulsa That Cries for me personally (Volcanic Tongue) and Devil when you can Listen to Me (Family members Vineyard), drew superb critical notice aswell as a rise in touring possibilities. In 2015, I Abused Pet was released jointly by Stephen O’ Malley’s Ideologic Body organ label and Peter Rehberg’s Editions Mego. It had been a showcase on her behalf exclusive songwriting and performing, aswell as her instrumental abilities. The recording was celebrated internationally and produced the year-end lists of several critics. In early 2016, she undertook a duo tour with saxophonist Peter Brötzmann. Their recording, Ears Are Filled up with Wonder, recorded throughout a stint in Kraków, Poland was released by Trost in-may.