Artist Profile

Miracle Fortress

Label: Secret City / Rough Trade
Agent: Greg Lowe

Montreal-based Miracle Fortress is Graham Van Pelt's main recording project and band featuring Jessie Stein, Nathan Ward and Adam Waito. The band does adaptations of the recordings, as well as some actual band songs you might like. Sometimes Graham performs by himself and this is also Miracle Fortress. Sometimes Graham performs as Fort Miracle, which is different, but Graham acknowledges that it may be possibly undesirable self-mythologizing. Five Roses is the first full-length Miracle Fortress album, available via Secret City and Rough Trade. It's inspired heavily by (and occasionally pays homage to) weirder Nilsson, Phil Spector and Beach Boys, but draws mainly from straight-up studio accidents/surprises, FX mush, ambient drones, drum programming, post-rock, classic rock. Five Roses was self- and home-recorded at Friendship Cove. Second album due out 2009.