Born in Massachusetts in 1965, Bryon Turcotte set foot to become a student of human nature and of sonic chemistry. In addition to being a self taught musician from age 13 and avid music collector, he pursued an educational path in electrical and audio engineering building a long list of accomplishments as a technical professional during the beginnings of his adult life. 

These skills helped him to sharpen his passion for music and the love of technology that would increase his strength as a composer and multimedia designer in years to come. Continually experimenting, he perfected his own recording methods in his home studio and began to put them into practice in his life as a performer and producer as he worked with other musicians.

Cutting his teeth as a performing rock musician in the Northeast and East Coast between the late 80's and early 2000s, musician and producer Turcotte quickly transitioned his passion and concentration for creativity into building instrumental and loop/sample based electronic music for film while supporting independent artists as an advocate and producer, working as a music journalist, and serving as a regional A&R scout for a handful of record labels. 

Turcotte began his career in music as a keyboardist/bassist, played and toured from 1984 to 1997, and worked as a session and freelance musician between 1997 and 2002 performing with numerous bands in Boston and New York in studio sessions and on stage. He then collaborated and performed with artist and composer Micheal MacDonald and his bands Transom and Jupiter 88. Turcotte performed with both bands on bass until MacDonald’s untimely death in 2000.

Turcotte began composing music under the name "The Bandless Hands" in the year 2000. An idea born from composing, engineering, and recording music as an individual, but, to the best of his ability, perform and produce to create a sound and a true energy that would come from a group of engaged, collaborating musicians in a live studio setting. 

His work as a film composer began in the independent short film "The River" by young Greek film maker Andrea Hadjcosti. Hadjcostis translation of the short story “Zitite Elpis” by Antonis Samarakis captured Turcotte’s attention and quickly began to influence his heart to begin his course in the direction of composing for film. 

Within a year he began working on other independent films leading him to a project for a cause with a very important purpose. Survivors Stories, a film used nation wide to alert educational institutions, parents, college age students, and law enforcement agencies to the rising issue of rape at the college and university level became the next palette for Turcotte’s emotional support through his music.

In the early part of 2003, he began working with independent filmmaker and director Kenneth Niblock to work on the score for the full length film "Lets Jack Jimmy”. Turcotte worked as the primary music composer for the film and work closely with Niblock on the film in its finishing stages.

As both his professional and creative resume grew during this time, his knowledge base also expanded, allowing him to learn about more musical styles, become inspired to write more material, and redefine his purpose as a musician, engineer, and producer. The obvious next step was to take another journey combining all the tools picked up along the way to make music that will satisfy his need to express his influences and exercise his creative freedom and inspirations.

Since that time, Turcotte has recorded and released multiple albums - each inspired by a wide range of musical styles including Folk/Singer Songwriter, Alternative Rock, Pop, Instrumental Electronic, Soulful Jazz, along with Loop-Powered Hip Hop and Trance. As a multi-instrumentalist, lyricist, and composer, Turcotte evolved into a creative feeling free of genre and labels of style. 

Experimenting with sound, multi-track recording, tape loops and early analog synthesizers, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, Turcotte began to build a well of knowledge, technical understanding of music and sound that he would tap into for the next 30 years of his life. He has grown to appreciate the relationship between music, film and his love for all creativity as his life as a musician continues into the future.

ALBUM RELEASES 

​Glory Hole Five:

The fully analog 4 and 8 track recordings produced between 1995 and 2005 were compiled on the first album, "Glory Hole Five", a great sampling of Turcotte's earliest solo work and experimentation with self production, engineering, and musicianship. Also, it is the composers first complete dedication to songwriting and arranging using the acoustic guitar as the foundation instrument. A 20th Anniversary re-release of this early collection of The Bandless Hands is scheduled for late 2025. 

​A Cache of Less Ordinary Jewels:

The rare compilation, "A Cache of Less Ordinary Jewels (2003-2017)", includes a collection of instrumental music composed for numerous projects during the composer's electronic, loop driven period which exhibits a more experimental period using samples, beats, and more digitally based recording techniques. This is a wide array of creation that includes compositions produced from both analog tape and fully digital audio workstations at Turcotte's home studios.

A Single, Quick Movement:

The album "A Single, Quick Movement" is a collection of music written in seclusion during the 2020 - 2021 Pandemic lockdown reflecting some personal loss, relationship examination, and observance of a changing world and how a major life-changing event can have such a permanent effect on lifestyle, emotional well-being, and mental stability. The first album by Turcotte since his solo Boston-based recordings produced after his departure as bass player of the power-pop band Driveway in 1997.

One Eye Open:
 
The newest album, titled "One Eye Open", will be released on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 and promises to be a collection of tight production, powerful rhythms, meaningful songwriting, and emotionally driven soundscapes that have been a traditional concept since the project's beginnings over 25 years ago.

To learn more, go to: https://www.irontreeinteractive.com/the-bandless-hands

Email: bturcotte@irontreeinteractive.com

ONE TEAM. ONE NAME.TWO MINDS. FOUR HANDS. TWO HEADPHONES.

In recent years Italy has seen a flurry of talent grow from its roots and DJ & Production duo, Pink Is Punk, is no exception. Also known as Andrea Mazzantini and Nico Vignali, this Milan based duo are undoubtably making a name for themselves. Having met in high school and remaining friends, 7 years ago, the pair decided to take their relationship to the next level. It was the inception of a long term relationship neither expected. Both Andrea and Nico bring their own disctinctive talents to the project, but at the same time they unusually enough equally share the weight of the studio responsibilities, they are an unstoppable team. 

The relationship truly blossomed when the pair landed their first gig DJing at the trendy Italian landmark Bond Club. Delivering sounds from every genre the pair showed their musical breadth playing everything from old school Hip Hop to Punk, to Dance this electic combination would later become their signature-sound. The line around the block at Magazzini Generali was a telling sign and before long world renown promoters BuggedOut took the pair under their wing and gave them a residency in Milan. From their Andrea and Nico wasted no time, touring worldwide at high profile shows and festivals including MTV Day, Heiniken Jamming Festival, Cocorico’s 20th Birthday anniversary and supporting The Chemical Brothers, The Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 1977 and Italys master of House music and later to be production partner Benny Benassi. 

Touring aside their pair have had a string of underground club hits, securing their first EP in 2009, aptly named “Double Trouble”. This EP was the first showcase of their electro roots combined with their influences from Hip Hop, Roots, Reggae and Rock. The following year Pink Is Punk went one step further and released was they describe as their own “musical auto-biography” a telling sign of their musical knowledge and a raw insight into their incredible talent, their debut artist album “Skull & Banana” was released Nov 2010. Produced and released by Do It Yourself music and distributed by Universal Music, the album was donned as “the most hyped album of Autumn” and acclaimed by an influx of ltalian press. 2012 saw their latest electro-house masterpiece come to fruition as Pink Is Pink feat. 
Benny Benassi “Perfect Storm” was quickly snapped up and released on US mega-label Ultra Records. 

Early 2013 there are murmurs that the single has had such great club succss that the USA’s Bright Lights is breathing new life into the record with a melodically breathtaking vocal and a video to match. 
We are yet to catch a glimpse of what 2013 will bring Andrea and Nico, there are a couple more EPs in the pipeline, another mammoth tour and enough studio time booked in to make you think they might just be writing another album…



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