Track for Puro Osso LP released in Poland by Lado ABC (limited edition of 50 copies). Originaly released in Brazil by Desmonta.

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m.Takara / De Onde Eu Estou

the Twilight Sad live @ Cargo, London, 14/2/2012, performing  "I Became a Prostitute".
If you like the sound, support the artists, go out there and buy their music. 

'I became a Prostitute' - the TWILIGHT SAD

tUnE-yArDs, performing 'Powa', from WHOKILL (4AD), live at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, 15/2/2012. Support the artist

Powa - tUnE-yArDs, live at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, 15/2/2012

"Feel Free" is a composition by Duane Pitre that currently has three possible manifestations: solo performance, group performance, and sound installation. At the core of all of them is the pillar of the work, an open yet orderly system whose intention is to produce potentially infinite variations of self-generating rhythm and melody. This system is created in part by a Max/MSP patch, designed by the composer, which consists of two (unprocessed) sound sources: guitar harmonics and simple-timbre electronic tones (in the solo/group versions, the latter are performed by the composer). 

These solo and group versions of "Feel Free" find the work following a sequence of movements, with each embodying slight variations in feel, pitch material, performance methods, and rules. Blanketing the entire performance are suggestions given to the performers, such as that they should feel free to interact with one another, as well as with the random, real-time, computer generated patterns of guitar harmonics; therefore making intuitive yet rule-based decisions, in that moment of the piece, instead of relying on standard notation to dictate their every move. This approach creates a performance that is unique upon each occasion that it is performed; it is free from its own restraints.

This album preview (comprised of an excerpt of each of the piece's five sections) is from the "Feel Free" CD/LP, to be released via Important Records on 3/27/12.(Also released on this date is Pitre's split LP w/ Eleh, with the composer's side containing a recording of an installation version "Feel Free")

Album liner notes:
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Duane Pitre
Feel Free

Section I
Section II
Section III
Section IV
Section V

Duane Pitre - computer (electronics & guitar)
Jim Altieri - violin
Shannon Fields - hammered dulcimer
James Ilgenfritz - contrabass
Jessie Marino - cello
Jesse Sparhawk - harp

Recorded at The Isokon, Woodstock, New York on May 29/30, 2011
Engineered & mixed by D. James Goodwin
Mastered by Bhob Rainey
"Feel Free" by Duane Pitre (BMI 2010)
Design: IMPREC

www.duanepitre.com
www.importantrecords.com
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Feel Free (album preview)

THE WAR ON DRUGS, LIVE AT THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM, performing "IT'S YOUR DESTINY", London, UK, 28/2/2012. Produced and recorded by Bruno FerrariENJOY AND SUPPORT THESE OUTSTANDING ARTISTS/MUSICIANS. BUY THEIR ALBUMS. I do not own the copyright of these songs. All rights reserved to the War on Drugs, © 2012.

the War On Drugs, live at the Electric Ballroom, London, 28/2/2012, "It's your destiny"

Preview from split LP w/ Eleh

"Feel Free" is a composition by Duane Pitre that currently has three possible manifestations: solo performance, group performance, and sound installation (sample above). At the core of all of them is the pillar of the work, an open yet orderly system whose intention is to produce potentially infinite variations of self-generating rhythm and melody. This system is created in part by a Max/MSP patch, designed by the composer, which consists of two (unprocessed) sound sources: guitar harmonics and simple-timbre electronic tones (in the solo/group versions, the latter are performed by the composer). 

Where the solo and group versions find the work following a sequence of movements (each embodying a varying feeling) that consist of different pitches and rules/methods for the group to execute them, this “installation version” is void of any performers and is meant to embody a certain stillness. And while the listener may become familiar with what seem to be recurring patterns, no sounds are ever looped, but are rather continually moving forward, yet still remain suspended.

The DP side of the split (sample above) is simply a fixed, 20-minute recording of the potentially infinite (variations and duration) Feel Free Installation.

Feel Free Installation (excerpt)

González, "Lovestain", live at Shepherd's Bush Empire, 3 May 2012

González, "How Low", live at Shepherd's Bush Empire, 3 May 2012

I Like Trains, performing live at the Borderline, London, UK, 7 May 2012.
Produced and recorded by Bruno Ferrari.
"The Shallows", latest album of I Like Trains, out on the 7 May 2012. 
Support these outstanding artists. 
All right reserved to: I Like Trains, © 2012.

I Like Trains, live @ Borderline, London, 7 May 2012

New single by Love Like Birds

Produced by Jinte Deprez & Gertjan Van Hellemont
Mixed by Jinte Deprez
Picture by Athos Burez
Cover lay-out by Jan Opdekamp

Love Like Birds - Sailorboy (Radio Mix)

Seven minute excerpt from "Bridges: Earth/Ember/Serpent," the first (of two) compositions on Duane Pitre's upcoming (June 2013) album, titled "Bridges," on Important Records. 

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Duane Pitre - BRIDGES

1) BRIDGES: Earth/Ember/Serpent
2) BRIDGES: Cup/Aether/Crane

Duane Pitre - compositions, cumbus, ukelin, mandolin, computer, & electronics
Oliver Barrett - cello
Bhob Rainey - soprano saxophone

Written/arranged/recorded/mixed August-November 2012
Mastered by Altered Ear

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Duane Pitre’s new album, "Bridges," features two pieces taken from a suite of analogous compositions by the same name, and was composed by Pitre in 2012. The two pieces that comprise the album are meant to work together in sequence as a composite work; or they can be isolated and listened to on their own. The title derives its name from the original concept for this work, which was to bring together aspects of traditional Eastern music (such as compositional form and tuning) with Western musical traditions (such as in the church music of the Middle Ages and modern classical music). The result is an album that merges the ancient with the new, while creating a sound that is wholly its own.


Powa - tUnE-yArDs, live at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, 15/2/2012

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