Name: Phantom Threshold
Brand: Steve Dawson

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BHCD0097

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-08-12

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803057065325

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Steve Dawson

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Folk

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Black Hen Music

Black Hen Music is a Canadian independent record label founded by Steve Dawson in 1995. With a focus on diverse, eclectic, and primarily acoustic-based music, the label has become a respected name in the industry. Led by label manager [a2226541], Black Hen Music continues to release exceptional music that captivates listeners.

Since its inception, Black Hen Music has been dedicated to showcasing talented artists who push boundaries and create unique sounds. The label's roster includes an impressive array of *singers*, *songwriters*, and *musicians* who consistently deliver high-quality performances.

With their commitment to supporting emerging talent and their passion for authentic music, Black Hen Music has gained recognition as a leading force in the independent music scene. Whether you're a fan of folk, blues, or roots music, this label offers an extensive catalog that will satisfy your musical cravings.

Phantom Threshold is an instrumental release that explores some very deep and elusive musical territory. In many ways, it resumes the musical conversations started in Telescope, Steve's pedal steel-based instrumental album from 2008.

The core band, dubbed 'The Telescope 3,' in reference to that release, is comprised of Jeremy Holmes (bass), Chris Gestrin (keyboards), and Jay Bellerose (drums/percussion). The natural telepathy between the musicians can be heard throughout Phantom Threshold as they cook up an enticing blend of textured string and keyboard sounds. Recorded with an array of vintage tube amps, Dawson's distinctive pedal steel sound is always in the forefront, vocalizing themes and defining parameters for the plethora of unusual instruments running from pump organ and accordion to the otherworldly marxophone (a kind of fretless zither played with hammers) and Moog synthesizer.

Guest musicians include Daniel Lapp, who added some beautiful violin and cornet accents to 'Cozy Corner' and 'Tripledream,' and Fats Kaplin who played fiddle and banjo on the title track as well as accordion on 'The Waters Rise.'Even though Phantom Threshold was recorded remotely, it expresses a spontaneity and looseness throughout as a well-developed group mind guides Dawson's melodic excursions into some very adventurous musical territory. The album has an expansive Paris, Texas era Ry Cooder feel, replete with a pulsing psychedelic undercurrent that makes the whole affair ow together like an imaginary collaboration between John Ford and Federico Fellini.

Phantom Threshold

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