"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

Scattered Light - Winds
Taken from "Beacons", the forthcoming album by Scattered Light
Pre Orders start 03.12.2021
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com

Limited to 50 copies, handmade cd packages, hand numbered, white edition.

Scattered Light - Winds

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Elektrical Aktivity EP6 (preview)

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If you would like to review this release, please email info@astralindustries.co.uk

Format: 2x12” 180g vinyl//leaflet inside//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

Out March 2016.

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CHI is:

Hanyo van Oosterom (bass, guitar, piano, percussion, synth)
Willem Cramer (loops, sequences, percussion, guitar)
Koos Derwort (bamboo flutes, clarinet and mouthsounds)
Michel Banabila (philicorda organ, percussion, bass, flute and fx)
Sound treatments by Jurgen Brouwer
Video by Fyko van Leeuwen

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'Daydreams In Low Fidelity' is the new work from talented UK-based artist Halftribe, who brought us 'Luxia' last year. Presented in a beautiful 4-panel CDr with pictures by Brian Young.

Written and Produced by Halftribe. 
Mastering by Rob Small. 
Photography by Brian Young | www.instagram.com/losingtoday 
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Halftribe - This Is Your Light

Taken from the album 'Hence' released on LP and Download.

Hence

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https://anjicheung.bandcamp.com/album/terma

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Mind over MIDI - Elektrical Aktivity EP7 out September 4.

https://mindovermidi.bandcamp.com/album/elektrical-aktivity-ep7

The Elektrical Aktivity series has been ongoing since 1995. So far it has been 7 EPs and 1 album. EP7 continues in the same musical landscape as EP6.

Elektrical Aktivity EP7

Imaging

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Imaging (Elektrical Aktivity EP7)

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Hailing from Kristiansund on the northwest coast of Norway, Helge Tømmervåg has been crafting electronic sounds since the early '80s. His earliest work recorded under the now-familiar Mind over MIDI moniker arrived in the early '90s. He's released scores of highly regarded and stylistically uncompromising sounds over the years, appearing on labels including Silent Seasons, Diametric, Hibernate, Whitelabrecs, ROHS! Lontano Series, Shimmering Moods Records, Slow Tones Collages and via his own Berserk Fabrik.


ABOUT THE MUSIC
Electronic music for daydreamers and nighthinkers. Inspired by the icy winds, snowy vistas and frozen landscapes in Norway.

If you can picture the very furthest, coldest, darkest part of Norway, that's where Mind over MIDI resides. If you want to get an idea of what it's like there, and can do without the frostbite, then this is the perfect solution.

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