On Repeat: Pedal, Sampler, Pedal Steel

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all. ▰ One guitar, one incredible guitar pedal, which turns an opening series of notes into an endlessly drifting drone. Beautiful stuff. It’s by Perry Frank, who is from Sardinia, Italy. ▰ Keinseier, a film composer based in Hamburg, has been going to town on a specific set of electronic music instruments, doing lots of short videos (in which he performs on them usually without any additional effects or tools), and he’s become quite adept in particular with the Digitakt II. This performance uses lots of little quiet sounds. ▰ I listen to Gary Peters’ solo pedal steel music far more often than I write about it. This is a lovely recent recording. He says of his work: “Very simple things can be very beautiful. But such simplicity is quite hard to achieve. I manage to get close…