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Myspace Contact Tables blstr is the solo project of steve fors. a multi-instrumentalist and multi-disciplinary visual artist living and working in chicago, he’s been creating transcendent immersive experiences for midwestern audiences for the past 15 years, including a series of sound, video, and raw material installations and live performances. his first release, a limited edition cd-r ep, "continu|um" (drone cowboy records), is a six-song, 46-minute exploration of melodic drone and dissonance. in addition to his solo project, steve is a member of the psych drone ensemble the golden sores, and a founding member of chicago's lap steel guitar collective united steelworkers union.

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Member Since: 07/01/2007
Band Website: my other project is at virb.com/goldensores
Band Members: steve fors on a rickenbacker d12 super-deluxe double neck lap steel guitar, a moog taurus 1 bass pedal synthesizer, an olds t15 studio trombone, a vintage eventoff sonica, and a magnus 1510 laptop organ, through a genz benz shenandoah 200 stereo acoustic amplifier, with miscellaneous harmonicas, obsolete electronics, walkie-talkies, found sounds, and effects.
Influences: belong, stars of the lid, keith fullerton whitman, number none, yellow swans, the album leaf, windy & carl, stuart dempster, explosions in the sky, gy!be, spiritualized/spacemen3, phil niblock, philip glass, roy montgomery.
Sounds Like: just listen. you'll hear it.
Record Label: drone cowboy records
Type of Label: Indie

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