Heather Leigh

The Daughter Of A Coal Miner Weaving A Trail From West Virginia To Texas And Now Residing In Scotland Heather Leigh Furthers The Vast Unexplored Reaches Of Pedal Steel Guitar. Her Playing Is As Physical As It Is Phantom Combining Spontaneous Compositions With A Feel For The Full Interaction Of Flesh With Hallucinatory Power Sources. With A Rare Combination Of Sensitivity And Strength Leigh’s Steel Mainlines Sanctified Slide Guitar And Deforms It Using Hypnotic Tone-Implosions Juggling Walls Of Bleeding Amp Tone With Choral Vocal Constructs And Wrenching Single Note Ascensions. In Recent Years Leigh Has Been Touring The World Extensively As A Solo Artist Following The Release Of Her Studio Album ‘I Abused Animal’ On Ideologic Organ/Editions Mego And In BRÖTZMANN/LEIGH A Duo With Peter Brötzmann Who Have Released 3 Albums ‘Ears Are Filled With Wonder’ And ‘Sex Tape’ On Trost And ‘Crowmoon’ A Limited CD Privately Released By BRÖ/LEIGH. A New BRÖTZMANN/LEIGH Studio LP/CD ‘Sparrow Nights’ Is Forthcoming In October 2018 As Well As A New Solo LP/CD Throne For Editions Mego. read less