Phantom Threshold

Phantom Threshold is an instrumental release that explores some very deep and elusive musical territory. In many ways, it resumes the musical conversations started in Telescope, Steve's pedal steel-based instrumental album from 2008. The core band, dubbed 'The Telescope 3,' in reference to that release, is comprised of Jeremy Holmes (bass), Chris Gestrin (keyboards), and Jay Bellerose (drums/percussion). The natural telepathy between the musicians can be heard throughout Phantom Threshold as they cook up an enticing blend of textured string and keyboard sounds. Recorded with an array of vintage tube amps, Dawson's distinctive pedal steel sound is always in the forefront, vocalizing themes and defining parameters for the plethora of unusual instruments running from pump organ and accordion to the otherworldly marxophone (a kind of fretless zither played with hammers) and Moog synthesizer. Guest musicians