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Closely Watched Trains’ (Twin Lakes Records) broad influences and instrumentation work their way into a uniquely unified sound that runs the spectrum from distorted garage rock to orchestral quiet folk. Founded in the winter of 2007 by Jon Schlesinger (banjo, guitar, lap steel, vocals) and John Gage (drums, vibraphones, marimba, percussion), the began recording half written songs and capturing ideas at Jon’s garage studio.
Citing influences from The Who, Ramones, Dylan, Sonic Youth, Television, Wilco, Velvet Underground, Miles Davis, Minutemen, and on & on, the two set off to create music that would cite their influences but be a sound all it’s own.
Seeking to fill out the band for shows, they asked friends John Leonard (bass, vocals) and Taralyn Bulyk (violin) to jam. Soon, the band took hold as a quartet, with both J and T being integral contributors. With this line-up, CWT cemented their sound. Leonard, having his own studio and an incredible ear for detail, was soon anointed engineer and mixer. He gathered up all the recordings and brought them to his Sonic-Bot Studios where he re-mixed them in their entirety, taking CWT’s sound and production to new heights. The result was a sound familiar yet impossible to define with genre tags alone…an aural landscape—pastoral and surreal—that beckons and is easy to get lost in.
Seeking to fill out the band for shows, they asked friends John Leonard (bass, vocals) and Taralyn Bulyk (violin) to jam. Soon, the band took hold as a quartet, with both J and T being integral contributors. With this line-up, CWT cemented their sound. Leonard, having his own studio and an incredible ear for detail, was soon anointed engineer and mixer. He gathered up all the recordings and brought them to his Sonic-Bot Studios where he re-mixed them in their entirety, taking CWT’s sound and production to new heights. The result was a sound familiar yet impossible to define with genre tags alone…an aural landscape—pastoral and surreal—that beckons and is easy to get lost in.
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Featured Tracks
| FULL TRACK Girl of My Dreams | 3:33 |
| FULL TRACK Emerald City | 6:01 |
| FULL TRACK Time Never Wasted | 2:58 |
| FULL TRACK Frames | 3:49 |
| FULL TRACK New Day Rising | 3:47 |
| FULL TRACK Hills Climb | 3:11 |
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CWT in The Big Takeover...
8 Jun 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/closelywatchedtrainscwt
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Recent Activity
- Closely Watched Trains posted a news item ‘CWT in The Big Takeover...’. May 2011
- Closely Watched Trains posted a news item ‘CT INDIE REVIEW... "Flawless"’. May 2011
- Closely Watched Trains posted a news item ‘Summer recording sessions...’. May 2011
- Closely Watched Trains posted a news item ‘No Daffodil Fest this year, however...’. May 2011
- Closely Watched Trains posted a news item ‘CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS' DEBUT PICKED AS THE BEST LOCAL ALBUM OF YEAR’. May 2011
- Closely Watched Trains posted a news item ‘CWT ALBUM NOW AVAILABLE THRU ITUNES & OTHER DIGITAL OUTLETS’. May 2011
- Closely Watched Trains posted a news item ‘ALBUM MAKING MACHINE’. May 2011
- Closely Watched Trains posted a news item ‘CWT EYES THE FUTURE’. May 2011
- Closely Watched Trains posted a news item ‘MAKING A MIX’. May 2011
- Closely Watched Trains posted a news item ‘CWT DEBUT REVIEWED’. May 2011
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