Out of this world PSG

[Ally]

Quite literally...

On Brian Eno's Apollo album; the usual ambient droney, harmless stuff, but with tonnes of really unusual, atmospheric pedal steel.

What's fascinating is it's played in a very different way from how we expect to hear; not a single cliched lick.

It can usually be picked up cheap (certainly here in UK) and is well worth a lesson. great to fall asleep to, too.

Oh yeah, the music is a soundtrack to a documentray of the Lunar landings; eno heard from the original astronauts that the tapes they took with them to space were all country music -- hence the use of PSG .

Anyone else out there familiar with this?

Cheers

Ally

[Jim Cohen]

Daniel Lanois, pedal steel. http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Abg2vad3kv8wn