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Pink Glass Swans
3+ albums
canadaCanadiancanadiansexperimentalimprov
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Dirty Experimental bedroom jazz, Pink Glass Swans (or PGS) was a loosely-defined group that lived its short life entirely in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Formed in 2002 by neighbours Nick Santos-Pedro and Marco D'Andrea, PGS recordings consist only of highly-distorted direct-to-tape cassettes or single-channel MiniDiscs. Membership fluctuated between discrete acoustic trios to over-amplified ten-person donnybrooks. In similar fashion to venerated art bands like Kent State's Devo or Vancouver's photoconceptualism set UJ3Rk5, Pink Glass Swans consisted entirely of students, in this case from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, with the notable exception of NSCAD professor Michael Fernandes. Other consistent PGS participants included Michael Eddy and Jon Knowles (of Knowles Eddy Knowles), "Danger" Will Robinson (of I see rowboats), Laird Hamilton, and Beau Labute. The Swans only played one live show, as an opening act for a dance in their natural habitat, the school cafeteria. Within another semester the band began mutating into other forms and recording under the PGS banner was abandoned by the winter of 2003. Members of PGS went on to form related bands, such as the Armdalers and Hotbrothersdotmom. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
