Contact information:

Pete Johnston See Through Trio 65A Wychcrest Avenue Toronto, ON M6G 3X8 New Album: Parallel Lights Email: [email protected] Label: Woods and Waters (woodsandwaters.bandcamp.com) Phone: 416 516 9035 Web: seethroughmusic.com/trio

Bio: “See Through Trio offers the listener a refreshing mix of improvised interaction blended with beautiful, clever compositions (and clever titles). Music worth hearing in your mind’s ear.” (Rob Wallace, papercutrecords.com)

See Through Trio is composed of pianist Tania Gill, saxophonist Karen Ng, and bassist Pete Johnston. Formed in 2004, our primary musical influences are the free jazz innovators of the early 1960s, especially Jimmy Giuffre, Carla Bley, and Ornette Coleman. The subsequent free improvisation scene that developed in Europe is also an important touchstone, as is the psychedelic folk music and progressive rock that emerged from the UK in the 1960s and 70s.

Each member of the group has played in many bands that play a wide range of musics, including: traditional jazz, math rock, folk, New Orleans-style party music, singer songwriters, big band swing, indie rock, country, and progressive rock, among others. All of these influences have space to percolate through our ensemble improvisations in See Through Trio. Throughout our performances and recordings the playful, deconstructionist spirit of jazz provides the foundation for our music.

Parallel Lights is See Through Trio’s fourth record, and the first with saxophonist Karen Ng, who joined the group in 2013. We had the great pleasure to work with Jean Martin as producer and engineer on this recording. Jean is a fixture on the Toronto music scene as a drummer, producer, and label boss of Barnyard Records, one of Canada's best-known labels for creative music. As a skilled improviser himself, Jean’s creative sensibilities matched perfectly with ours throughout the recording process. Recorded in March 2014 at Canterbury Studios in Toronto, the compositions on Parallel Lights feature more extensive written material than our previous work, yet are a clear extension of the equal-voiced, contrapuntal compositions on our first three records: Our Own Devices (2007), Lines and Spaces (2009), and Near Northern Static (2012).

Listen to Parallel Lights via streaming audio on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/petejohnston/sets/parallel- lights/s-aTf6b

Streaming audio is also available on our Bandcamp page: seethroughtrio.bandcamp.com To download a digital copy, please go to: seethroughmusic.com/seethroughtrioinfo/SeeThroughTrio- ParallelLightsMP3.zip

Recommended tracks: 1 (Blame the Numbers), 2 (The Answer is Slow), and 4 (Tomorrow Generator).