Pinetop
Seven was formed in 1996 as a loose collective of Chicago musicians whose lineup
has never remained constant for long. Seventeen men and women have contributed
to the records or participated as touring members over the group's four year
/ four album history. Throughout this time the vision has remained constant
as they quietly continue to assemble compelling collages of sounds and words,
mini-epics of storytelling and snapshots of an America that Norman Rockwell
would never recognize.
Pinetop Seven's music is cinematic in scope yet intimate and sincere in its awkward beauty. Their carnival of instrumentation includes as many found sounds and man-made instruments as it does traditional ones. Marimbas, vibraphones, shoe-horns, violins and cellos, reeds, loops, spoons, feedback and drones, accordions, melodicas, metal pipes, rhodes and pump organs, an arsenal of clunky found percussion, and many obscure instruments like the keen-o-tone and the automandolin are all employed with great inventiveness and deference to the song.
Check out Pinetop Seven's official site.
Bringing Home
the Last Great Strike
2000
Rigging the
Toplights
1998
No Breath in
the Bellows (EP)
1998
self titled
1997