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Acclaimed musician/producer/songwriter Steve Dawson will 2 new albums of his work in 2008; Waiting For The Lights To Come Up and Telescope decided to record two albums at once this year. It wasn't what I set out to do originally. I was getting ready to make a record that would feature a new batch of songs that I had been writing, but at the same time, I was learning the pedal steel guitar, and had been writing ensemble-based music that would feature that instrument. Rather than waiting and recording them separately, Dawson decided to put together a crack band and spend a few days in the studio getting the majority of both albums done at once. The idea was to create two completely different projects that tied together sonically and that shared a similar energy. Thought it would be interesting to have them both done in the same space at the same time, and by the same people. The musicians are players with whom he's been making a lot of records over the last few years. The band comprises Keith Lowe (Bill Frisell, Fiona Apple) on bass, Chris Gestrin (Randy Bachman, K-OS) on keyboards, and Scott Amendola (T.J. Kirk, Bill Frisell, Madeleine Peyroux) on drums. With musicians of this caliber, I knew that most of the magic would be happening quickly on early takes, even before the band was too comfortable with the new material. Dawson and the band set up shop in The Factory Studios in Vancouver and proceeded to record the bulk of the two records in about 5 days. Dawson took the tracks back to his Henhouse Studio to add overdubs, textures and sound manipulation. The result is a wonderful and arresting pair of new releases Waiting For the Lights To Come and Telescope. Waiting For the Lights To Come Up This album was a natural progression for me. I toured quite a bit when my last album, We Belong to the Gold Coast came out in 2005. I did a lot of solo shows in Canada and Europ
