Organized Pitches Occurring in Time
Duane Pitre has been previously known for the San Diego-based projects The Camera Obscura (not to be confused with the boy-girl indie pop group Camera Obscura) and Pilotram, but here Pitre takes a step toward self-titled autonomy, stamping his own name on these two mighty drone pieces. The music here transcends the usual expectation for the drone genre: there's something far more tonally comprehensive about these works. This has a lot to do with the fact the instrumentation used to plot out these epic sounds stems from such a broad range of sources, including a string section, a pump organ, alto saxophones, clarinets, guitars and an electronic tone generator. As ever with this sort of business there's an unhealthy amount of hyperbole that comes in the liner notes (something about the composition as body, with the violin representing the hair on that body. Yeah, sure, why not.) but the bottom line here is that both performances on this disc are uncommonly varied and organic pieces of drone music, with enough density and harmonic sophistication to have you replaying this one for the foreseeable future.
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Duane Pitre has been previously known for the San Diego-based projects The Camera Obscura (not to be confused with the boy-girl indie pop group Camera Obscura) and Pilotram, but here Pitre takes a step toward self-titled autonomy, stamping his own name on these two mighty drone pieces. The music here transcends the usual expectation for the drone genre: there's something far more tonally comprehensive about these works. This has a lot to do with the fact the instrumentation used to plot out these epic sounds stems from such a broad range of sources, including a string section, a pump organ, alto saxophones, clarinets, guitars and an electronic tone generator. As ever with this sort of business there's an unhealthy amount of hyperbole that comes in the liner notes (something about the composition as body, with the violin representing the hair on that body. Yeah, sure, why not.) but the bottom line here is that both performances on this disc are uncommonly varied and organic pieces of drone music, with enough density and harmonic sophistication to have you replaying this one for the foreseeable future.
Duane Pitre has been previously known for the San Diego-based projects The Camera Obscura (not to be confused with the boy-girl indie pop group Camera Obscura) and Pilotram, but here Pitre takes a step toward self-titled autonomy, stamping his own name on these two mighty drone pieces. The music here transcends the usual expectation for the drone genre: there's something far more tonally comprehensive about these works. This has a lot to do with the fact the instrumentation used to plot out these epic sounds stems from such a broad range of sources, including a string section, a pump organ, alto saxophones, clarinets, guitars and an electronic tone generator. As ever with this sort of business there's an unhealthy amount of hyperbole that comes in the liner notes (something about the composition as body, with the violin representing the hair on that body. Yeah, sure, why not.) but the bottom line here is that both performances on this disc are uncommonly varied and organic pieces of drone music, with enough density and harmonic sophistication to have you replaying this one for the foreseeable future.