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"The Days Long" from Duane Pitre's new solo album "Omniscient Voices" - Out Nov 19th, 2021 on IMPREC.

Pre-order available via Imprec.com

Duane Pitre returns to Imprec with Omniscient Voices, an articulate, intense and emotionally resonant set of five pieces for justly tuned piano and electronics.

Omniscient Voices is a uniquely distinct work that follows Pitre's trilogy of releases which culminated with 2015’s Bayou Electric and included the critically acclaimed Feel Free (2012) and Bridges (2013) albums. Where those albums were rooted in long form pieces, Omniscient Voices is a collection of shorter pieces, offering more harmonic variety than previous works, with a unique sound and feel that is still unmistakably the work of Duane Pitre.

In 2019, after a five year period where Pitre did not focus on outward facing music, but instead on his own personal practice, a small idea in the form of a question came to him: would the combination of his latest computer- and electronic-based experiments, used in conjunction with justly tuned piano, produce interesting results; simply put, would it “work”? Concurrently, Pitre was studying a handful of Morton Feldman scores for their focus on tonal clusters, reading a book on Arvo Pärt’s life and work, and contemplating the pulse-based rhythms of Steve Reich and Phillip Glass.

In 2020, with no intention of making a new album, the composer tried to answer this question. The results would spawn five pieces that would become Omniscient Voices. On this new work, Pitre finds himself giving equal priority to both piano and electronics, utilizing his Max/MSP-based generative network to real-time convert precomposed piano motifs, into data, which is then used to communicate with two polyphonic, microtonal hardware synthesizers whose patches Pitre authored; this process generates the electronic component of the album. Pitre also utilizes controlled improvisation to interact with the piano-reactive electronics in a spontaneous and inspired manner, going back and forth between these two pianistic approaches. In all, this approach creates a “musical feedback loop” of sorts.

Despite Omniscient Voices being the culmination of 15 years of hard work and inspiration, this beautiful album somehow materialized in a natural, intuitive and effortless way (like any artist's best work.)

Mastered and cut by Golden and pressed at RTI for maximum fidelity.

Artist's statement:
“When making the pieces that would become Omniscient Voices, I often viewed the piano as human action, a single note becoming a single gesture that has the potential to change the electronic environment, the electronics becoming the environment surrounding that human in the natural world, who then has the power to change their actions based on their surroundings. All actions have consequences. The interconnectedness of everything. Single actions making waves of change.”

RIYL: Arvo Pärt, Morton Feldman, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass

Duane Pitre - The Days Long - from Omniscient Voices - Pre-Order Available

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artist : ' t Geruis
 album : Bain D'Etoiles
duration : 37.43 mn
 date : April 18th, 2022

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / turquoise LP / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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All Music by t’Geruis

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by ©Sophie Lécuyer 
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://tgeruis.bandcamp.com/

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t Geruis - Quelque Chose De Perdue

Does Spring Hide Its Joy v2.3

Does Spring Hide Its Joy v2.3 (feat. Stephen O'Malley & Lucy Railton)

When was it exactly when I first came upon the sounds of Hecq? It must have been back in 2004 when Hymen Records picked him up for Scatterheart. I then hungrily collected all his IDM releases on this German label until, sometime in 2008, Ben Lukas Boysen revealed his cinematic side. I mean, if you listen closely to all of his music, you'll hear that it was always there, but it wasn't until Night Falls that I was taken aback by the soundscapes within. Speaking of which, I have recently revisited this album in my FLASHBACKS column here. I wasn't the only one impressed with this direction. And even though Boysen still continued to release his glitchy goodness as Hecq on Hymen, he also began producing for video games, television, and film (see his most recent score for The Lazarus Project out on Erased Tapes) under his real name. That didn't leave much time for playtime, and Hecq was put on the back burner in 2017. But I was always hoping that he will return. And, yes, five years later, Boysen is back with a 5-track EP for a London-based Mesh imprint, and all the sounds are as fresh as ever [and even slightly grown up]! On the track I am premiering for you today, the micro-percussion is perfectly positioned within the spectrum of deep bass and atmospheric synth pads sprinkled with the reverb-drowned piano keys. This is the return of the "intelligent" form in all that made the IDM genre so appealing to the listeners of electronic music. For now, I'll take the five delicious tracks, but I'm truly hoping there are more.

Form

Gyro

TRACK PREMIERE : Hecq - Gyro

Leaving Records presents: Shared Waves (ltd CS + DL)
Reworkings of songs from the album Sharing Waves by Cool Maritime out world wide June 1st 2018.
Features remixes from Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Dntel, Carlos Niño, Matthewdavid, and Tomutonttu.

http://www.leavingrecords.com
http://www.coolmaritime.org

Does Spring Hide Its Joy v2.3 (feat. Stephen O'Malley & Lucy Railton)

Kali Malone