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WORKING IN THE GARMENT DISTRICT
* Jennifer Baron, a founding member of The Ladybug Transistor, doesn't see her Pittsburgh-based project, The Garment District, as a "departure" from the national touring Brooklyn indie band.
"I feel that as any kind of artist, creator or producer, you always keep within you some aspect or core of what you have created in the past," she says.
Ms. Baron has made her name here not only for music but also as a coordinator of Handmade Arcade and co-editor/contributing photographer for the book "Pittsburgh Signs Project: 250 Signs of Western Pennsylvania."
This weekend, she releases the full-length debut from The Garment District, "If You Take Your Magic Slow," a dreamy, quirky mix of synth-driven pop and blippy experimentalism with delicate, airy vocals from her cousin Lucy Evans Blehar.
"When I was in Ladybug, I was one of four songwriters in the group, and we would work in a variety of ways. In The Garment District, I write and arrange all of the music and the lyrics for those songs that have vocals. My cousin Lucy sings lead vocals on my recordings, and we have a very natural and organic process of working on finalizing the vocal melodies and phrasing for the lyrics and adding harmonies."
Her musical interest, she says, is "an...