The NEW full-length album "One Eye Open" from The Bandless Hands. Released on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. 
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"A powerful sonic mix of influences, genres, and inspiration... promising to give the listener a unique collection of music that cannot be easily categorized. The audience will be forced to admit that this is album is something incredibly infectious - expelling an energy they have never felt or experienced from a solo performer and independent producer working alone in a small independent studio. Worth a careful listen - from top to bottom." - Jim D. 
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"Bryon Turcotte, the creative force behind The Bandless Hands and a longtime friend and collaborator, has released his debut full-length album, "One Eye Open". If you grew up on the gritty, nostalgic sounds of '80s and '90s rock, this album offers a fusion that’s sure to scratch that itch for something fresh yet familiar. Notably, much like Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters fame, Bryon showcases his versatility by playing every instrument on the record himself—a feat that adds a personal stamp to the project. Music lovers, take note: give One Eye Open a spin and share it with your fellow audiophiles." - Ken Niblock
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Music and Words by Bryon Turcotte
Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Piano/Synthesizer, and all Drums, and Percussion performed by Bryon Turcotte (Click on each track to read the song's lyrics) 

All music performed and recorded at Uncle Brown's Sound Recordings in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. 

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One Eye Open

“These Words Are Ghosts” from the new full-length release “One Eye Open” from The Bandless Hands. The ten-song album is scheduled for public release on Tuesday, April 1, 2025.

Lyrics:

His name was Jimmy Sherman when he died
His love was drowned in alcohol and the tears in his eyes
He snuffed a burning joint out on his sleeve
He saw his brother’s suicide and the demons wouldn’t leave

Words are dying ghosts we never understand
A poet’s rising smoke is never fast
Feel their warmest touch and ring your hands
Then take your deepest breath and make it last

We never really feel at home
We only wish we were alone
With all the covers on your head
With all the wishes that we’ve said

Dear old Margaret Anne forever lost
She never healed the pain and never knew the cost
She watched the shadows drift down the hall
When the dreams would rise the nightmares called

Words are dying ghosts we never understand
A poet’s rising smoke is never fast
Feel their warmest touch and ring your hands
Then take your deepest breath and make it last

We never really feel at home
We only wish we were alone
With all the covers on your head
With all the wishes that we’ve said

[Lead Break]

Words are dying ghosts we never understand
A poet’s rising smoke is never fast
Feel their warmest touch and ring your hands
Then take your deepest breath and make it last

We never really feel at home
We only wish we were alone
With all the covers on your head
With all the wishes that we’ve said

We never really feel at home
We only wish we were alone
With all the covers on your head
With all the wishes that we’ve said

"For the Lost and Forgotten"

Words by Bryon Turcotte
Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Piano/Synthesizer, and all Drums, and Percussion performed by Bryon Turcotte 

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These Words Are Ghosts

“Shine” from the new full-length release “One Eye Open” from The Bandless Hands. The ten-song album is scheduled for public release on Tuesday, April 1, 2025.

Lyrics:

Shine, a light on my door
Breathe, like you did before

So many moments in your yesterdays
Too many dreams that get carried away

Wait, forever it seems
Fate, or our mystery
Stand, alone in my dreams
Still, just like you used to be

So many moments in your yesterdays
Too many dreams that get carried away
I’m here to remind you of what it was like
I’m here to remember and shine for your life

Shine, a light on my door
Breathe, like you did before
Stand, alone in my dreams
Still, just like you used to be

[Lead Break]

Shine, a light on my door
Breathe, like you did before
Shine, a light on my door
Shine, like you did before

"For Shirley Ann"

Words by Bryon Turcotte
Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Piano/Synthesizer, and all Drums, and Percussion performed by Bryon Turcotte

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Shine

“Familiar” from the new full-length release “One Eye Open” from The Bandless Hands. The ten-song album is scheduled for public release on Tuesday, April 1, 2025.

Lyrics:

When...
life hits the end
my lonesome friend
I’m here to mend

Wait…
for peaceful rain
but don’t explain
your tearful pain

Familiar with the miles…
a million on the way to the smiles
Familiar with the night…
turn away and put up a fight
Familiar with your eyes…
the kind that always say goodbye
Familiar with the times…
that run away…

If…
there’s a road that you see
that is straight, narrow, and free
I want you to be

But…
please keep me in mind
in quieter times
when it all unwinds

Familiar with the miles…
a million on the way to the smiles
Familiar with the night…
turn away and put up a fight
Familiar with your eyes…
the kind that always say goodbye
Familiar with the times…
that run away…

[Lead Break]

Familiar with the miles…
a million on the way to the smiles
Familiar with the night…
turn away and put up a fight
Familiar with your eyes…
the kind that always say goodbye
Familiar with the times…
that run away…

that run away…
that run away…
that run away…

Words by Bryon Turcotte
Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Piano/Synthesizer, and all Drums, and Percussion performed by Bryon Turcotte

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Familiar

“Bigger Names” from the new full-length release “One Eye Open” from The Bandless Hands. The ten-song album is scheduled for public release on Tuesday, April 1, 2025.

Lyrics:

When the land was still, No time to realize…
When the land was still

If your heart was torn, Wishing you were never born…
If your heart was torn

[Chorus]

Remember when there were so many men
with bigger names, our lives would all depend
Yesterday, names hung on to the wind
Bigger names, bigger names…

Then gray turned black, All our love fell to attack…
Then gray turned black 

We spin around and never get our feet back
on higher ground

When the land was wide, No time to sympathize…
When land was wide

If you fell to pray, just to see another day…
When you fell to pray

[Chorus]

[Lead Break]

[Chorus]

Then the planet turned, and the memories got burned…
When the planet turned

We will fade away, with clouds and Saturdays…
We will fade away

When the land was still, no time to realize…
When the land was still

If your heart was torn, wishing you were never born…
If your heart was torn

[Chorus]

When the land was still…Bigger names…
When the land was still…Bigger names…
When the land was still…Bigger names…
When the land was still…Bigger names…

Words by Bryon Turcotte
Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Piano/Synthesizer, and all Drums, and Percussion performed by Bryon Turcotte

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Bigger Names

"Grab the Light" from the new full-length release "One Eye Open" from The Bandless Hands. The ten-song album is scheduled for public release on Tuesday, April 1, 2025.

Lyrics:

(Spoken) “Folks, grab the light. Fear the old shark bite…
Folks, grab the light…grab the light…”

Wounded, behind the dreams
Shaken as they pray
Woken, by bombs and screams
Broken every day

Will they fight forever…I hope for never
Grab the light or fear
Is there time to choose, or will they lose, or
grab the light (2x)

Walking, on shattered glass
The children’s smiling eyes
Murder, the memories fade
Stumbles, pain and cries

Women walk hand in hand
Mothers looking pale
Fathers don’t understand
Brothers tell the tale

Will they fight forever…I hope for never
Grab the light or fear
Is there time to choose, or will they lose, or
grab the light (2x)

[Lead Break]

Will they fight forever…I hope for never
Grab the light or fear
Is there time to choose, or will they lose, or
grab the light (2x)

Wounded, behind the dreams
Shaken as they pray
Woken, by bombs and screams
Broken every day

Will they fight forever…I hope for never
Grab the light or fear
Is there time to choose, or will they lose, or
grab the light (4x)

“For the people of Gaza”

Words by Bryon Turcotte
Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Piano/Synthesizer, and all Drums, and Percussion performed by Bryon Turcotte

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Grab the Light

"Smarter Than When" from the new full-length release "One Eye Open" from The Bandless Hands. The ten-song album is scheduled for public release on Tuesday, April 1, 2025.

Lyrics:

I should have never went to Portland
I should have never stayed away
But what I’ve got I get too often
There’s never words enough to say

So I’m just smarter than when
your smarter than me
who’s smarter than everyone

So you’re much darker than me
and brighter than you
and our life could ever be

I walked into a grand illusion
It took me straight to paranoid
I didn’t mean for the intrusion
It’s not a thing I can avoid

So I’m just smarter than when
your smarter than me
who’s smarter than everyone

So you’re much darker than me
and brighter than you
and our life could ever be

Smarter than when
Smarter than when
Smarter than when

[Lead Break]

So I’m just smarter than when
your smarter than me
who’s smarter than everyone

So you’re much darker than me
and brighter than you
and our life could ever be

I should have never went to Portland
I should have never went to Portland

Smarter than when
Smarter than when

So I’m just smarter than when
your smarter than me
who’s smarter than everyone

So you’re much darker than me
and brighter than you
and our life could ever be

Smarter than when
Smarter than when
Smarter than when

Words by Bryon Turcotte
Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Piano/Synthesizer, and all Drums, and Percussion performed by Bryon Turcotte

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Smarter Than When

“A Shot of Smoke” from the new full-length release “One Eye Open” from The Bandless Hands. The ten-song album is scheduled for public release on Tuesday, April 1, 2025.

Lyrics:

From the seat of the West, their eyes are crashing
With the heat of the road, the gust is lashing
The sky is shimmering red, a hope is empty
By an image of gold, the tears are plenty

A shot of smoke has burned in your eye
A tender dream has run off to die
Hot are the wounds deep inside
Into the wind sparks the night

Heartbreak in a smile, a flame fueled finger
Over waves and sand, a sadness lingers
Bright darkens the light, the flowers wilting
On a canvas of old, the paint is melting

A shot of smoke has burned in your eye
A tender dream has run off to die
Hot are the wounds deep inside
Into the wind sparks the night

[Lead Break]

A shot of smoke has burned in your eye
A tender dream has run off to die
Hot are the wounds deep inside
Into the wind sparks the night

From the seat of the West, their eyes are crashing
With the heat of the road, the gust is lashing
The sky is shimmering red, the hope is empty
By an image of gold, the tears are plenty

A shot of smoke
A shot of smoke
A shot of smoke

“For Los Angeles”

Words by Bryon Turcotte
Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Piano/Synthesizer, and all Drums, and Percussion performed by Bryon Turcotte

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A Shot of Smoke

"Ignore It" is a track from "Glory Hole Five", the 2005 album from The Bandless Hands. The first full length collection of original compositions recorded between 1995 and 2005 now re-released for it's 20th Anniversary.

Glory Hole Five (20th Anniversary Release)

Ignore It

"The Fall" is a track from "Glory Hole Five", the 2005 album from The Bandless Hands. The first full length collection of original compositions recorded between 1995 and 2005 now re-released for it's 20th Anniversary.

The Fall

"Vision" is a track from "Glory Hole Five", the 2005 album from The Bandless Hands. The first full length collection of original compositions recorded between 1995 and 2005 now re-released for it's 20th Anniversary.

Vision

"Uncle" is a track from "Glory Hole Five", the 2005 album from The Bandless Hands. The first full length collection of original compositions recorded between 1995 and 2005 now re-released for it's 20th Anniversary.

Uncle

"One Last Gift" is a track from "Glory Hole Five", the 2005 album from The Bandless Hands. The first full length collection of original compositions recorded between 1995 and 2005 now re-released for it's 20th Anniversary.

One Last Gift

“Everyone is Waiting” from the new full-length release “One Eye Open” from The Bandless Hands. The ten-song album is scheduled for public release on Tuesday, April 1, 2025.

Lyrics

Lost ride on a winter train
Cold change in my hand
Warm looks at an old refrain
Makes fear understand

And I know once I wake I’ll be wondering where I am
And I know once I take a deep breath and take your hand
And I know everyone is waiting just to take a ride
And I see every night whats here and on the other side

Old evil on my trail
Worn down from the fight
Swing a hammer, bend the nail
Can’t wait for the light

Smiles twist and worry me
Shouts linger with fright
Thought round in trickery
I’m not feeling right

And I know once I wake I’ll be wondering where I am
And I know once I take a deep breath and take your hand
And I know everyone is waiting just to take a ride
And I see every night whats here and on the other side

[Breakdown]

Lost ride on a winter train
Cold change in my hand
Warm looks at an old refrain
Makes fear understand

And I know once I wake I’ll be wondering where I am
And I know once I take a deep breath and take your hand
And I know everyone is waiting just to take a ride
And I see every night whats here and on the other side

Everyone is waiting…
[Everyone is waiting]

Words by Bryon Turcotte
Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Piano/Synthesizer, and all Drums, and Percussion performed by Bryon Turcotte.

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Everyone is Waiting

“Who Took Your Life” from the new full-length release “One Eye Open” from The Bandless Hands. The ten-song album is scheduled for public release on Tuesday, April 1, 2025.

Lyrics

Intro: “No… no, it can’t be. That piano…someone’s playing… and yet, there’s no one seated there…”

In the forest, it isn’t colorful
the hue is gone and gray
If I’m honest, it isn’t wonderful
to see them lose their way

Ooh, we’ve never been here
Ooh, we never walked the road
Ooh, another right is wrong
Who, who took your life away

Build a wall up, to where the fires rose
And burnt their dreams to ash
When they crawl up to see the open close
And feel their wonders dash

They’ve run and fallen, and hit the ground below
And never turning back
Pain is calling and nowhere letting to go
Then gray will turn to black

Ooh, we’ve never been here
Ooh, we never walked the road
Ooh, another right is wrong
Who, who took your life away

[Lead Break]

In the forest, it isn’t colorful
the hue has gone to gray
If I’m honest, it isn’t wonderful
to see them lose their way

Ooh, we’ve never been here
Ooh, we never walked the road
Ooh, another right is wrong
Who, who took your life away…

Who took your life away… 
Who took your life…

Words by Bryon Turcotte
Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Piano/Synthesizer, and all Drums, and Percussion performed by Bryon Turcotte.

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Intro audio clip from the “Dark Fantasy Radio Show” Ep. 1, “The Man Who Came Back”

(Dark Fantasy was a short series with tales of the weird, adventures of the supernatural, created for you by Scott Bishop. The series aired as a horror drama on NBC between 1941 and 1942.) 

Who Took Your Life

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

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