Peddlers Of Joy is a performance ensemble dedicated to creating healing music live. Our performances are all spontaneous compositions that are drawn from the love in the room at the moment. Each performance is a wonderfully unique experience. The ensemble moves and breathes together weaving a luscious web of sound and texture.
Our studio recording, A Pilgrimage: The Tank Sessions, features guitars, Native American flutes, percussion, voices and some unexpected instruments such as banjo, harmonica and Theremini. The musicians are Mad Dog Friedman, Sean Bennight, Sarah Echsner and myself. It was recorded at The TANK Center For Sonic Arts in Rangely, Colorado.
The TANK Center for Sonic Arts
In case you don't know, The Tank is an enormous, old water tank in Rangely, Colorado. It is an amazing acoustical treat, the reverb lasting more than twelve seconds.
For decades musicians stole into the tank with their field recorders through a small hole in the side to capture the incredible resonance. But now The Tank has been converted into a world-class recording and performance venue unlike any other.
Basking in Reverb
It felt entirely decadent and self-indulgent to open up my voice and release it into the tank. The sound current is expansive, and the voice continues to swirl up into the highest reaches of the tank for what feels like an eternity, creating an extraordinarily profound and deeply nourishing sound experience. The tank changes the way you sing, causing you to move slowly, find the spaces, and to let the tank have its voice. After basking for hours in that sonic haven I slept better than I had in years. I will indeed be returning.