A.V. Sessions: DB Pedersen's "Red Lace"

DB Pedersen's contributions to Madison music are hard to explain in any rational way. We tried to sum it up in a recent interview with Pedersen, who's moving to the Bay Area this fall after years of alternately storming Madison and sneaking through its underground music scene(s), training himself to summon the multi-tonal drones of Tuvan throat-singers and incredibly vivid cricket, bird, and farm-animal sounds. Even more unusual is how Pedersen goes about thatching these elements into songs. On his own and with a hodgepodge cast of local collaborators, he seems to have found that any connective tissue will do, but he especially relies on loops from his own vocals, bass, and flute. In the middle of working on a new album that he says is more song-oriented than any of his previous work, Pedersen and his pal Tony Endless (of local experimental duo Drunjus) joined us for a session at the near-East Side's DNA Studios (whose engineers Mark Whitcomb and Brian Daly not only recorded the music, but also helped man the cameras). This performance is built around the song "Red Lace," but Pedersen and Endless did a great deal of improvising with bells, Casio keyboards, field-recording cassettes, and of course the one-of-a-kind world hidden in Pedersen's larynx.

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