Heather Leigh

Here's a little something to heighten the already swelling excitement for Saturday's show. A quick bio on our musician for the night, Heather Leigh. I am incredibly excited to hear what aural delights will be included in her exclusive set.

The daughter of a coal miner, Heather Leigh is a musician and visual artist born in West Virginia and raised in Texas. These days she's firmly rooted in Scotland, where she’s co-run Volcanic Tongue Record Shop & Mailorder since 2003. Her music has been described as "high metal masses for amplified strings and vocals that blow all notions of form and fidelity to pieces." She’s released numerous solo recordings on labels Not Not Fun, Fag Tapes and her own imprints, Wish Image and Volcanic Tongue playing her main instruments, pedal steel guitar and voice, as well as electric guitar, keyboards, bells, cuatro, psaltery, harmonica, drums and other sounds. She’s toured extensively as a solo artist throughout the US and Europe and has also played/performed/released music with Ash Castles On The Ghost Coast, Taurpis Tula, Charalambides (who she stopped playing with in 2003 after her move to Glasgow), Scorces (a duo with Christina Carter), the Dream/Aktion Unit (a group with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Paul Flaherty, Chris Corsano and Matt Heyner), Jailbreak (a duo with Chris Corsano) and Jandek (playing bass with Jandek on the only tours he’s ever done) in addition to playing with many other collaborators. Her visual art has been included in several UK & US exhibitions and used on many record covers. She’s currently recording a new solo album to be in released in 2011.

Yet another reason to look forward to the collection preview. Far. Too. Excited.

Abigail.

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