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Format: CD
Label: Cuneiform Records
Year: 2020
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
TRACKS:
1 Dog Daze
2 Dawn Cloud
3 Honeymoon Room
4 Sitting Under Stars
5 The Severing
6 Adonna The Painter
7 Danger Play
8 Pocket Poem
9 Mori Point
10 Part And Particle
11 Beecher
12 Spinal Fusion
13 Untitled Atlas
14 Deetjen
PERSONNEL:
Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass – Michael Formanek
Drums, Percussion, Electronics – Ches Smith
Guitar, Electronics – Anthony Pirog
While it might confound those fixated with an artist's niche in the marketplace, guitarist Anthony Pirog knows little of stylistic limitations-in point of fact, Pirog's latest opus brings to mind the beloved Duke Ellington adage: Beyond category. Initially based in jazz, Pirog's seeming objective is to be a "category" unto himself, embracing not only jazz but avant-garde and indie rock, noise, and ambient soundscapes.
Pocket Poem, his second under his own name and his first since joining forces with 50% of DC's legendary Fugazi as Messthetics (with two releases on Dischord), is in a zone where stylistic "handles" matter little but the idea of music is vibrant, expansive, and kaleidoscopic.
Anthony designs a stylistic matrix where limits melt, genres meld, where seeming barriers shimmer and happily dissipate, engendering a both fascinating and satisfying audio journey.
“Anthony Pirog’s work is otherworldly – feverish in its delivery and interstellar in its complexity – but his feet have long been planted on the ground in Washington DC. When he was a kid he soaked up the city’s music, studying Danny Gatton and blues transplant Roy Buchanan… But what’s the most DC thing a DC musician can do? Well, they could start a band with members of Fugazi. That would do it...”
– Guitar.com
Label: Cuneiform Records
Year: 2020
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
TRACKS:
1 Dog Daze
2 Dawn Cloud
3 Honeymoon Room
4 Sitting Under Stars
5 The Severing
6 Adonna The Painter
7 Danger Play
8 Pocket Poem
9 Mori Point
10 Part And Particle
11 Beecher
12 Spinal Fusion
13 Untitled Atlas
14 Deetjen
PERSONNEL:
Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass – Michael Formanek
Drums, Percussion, Electronics – Ches Smith
Guitar, Electronics – Anthony Pirog
While it might confound those fixated with an artist's niche in the marketplace, guitarist Anthony Pirog knows little of stylistic limitations-in point of fact, Pirog's latest opus brings to mind the beloved Duke Ellington adage: Beyond category. Initially based in jazz, Pirog's seeming objective is to be a "category" unto himself, embracing not only jazz but avant-garde and indie rock, noise, and ambient soundscapes.
Pocket Poem, his second under his own name and his first since joining forces with 50% of DC's legendary Fugazi as Messthetics (with two releases on Dischord), is in a zone where stylistic "handles" matter little but the idea of music is vibrant, expansive, and kaleidoscopic.
Anthony designs a stylistic matrix where limits melt, genres meld, where seeming barriers shimmer and happily dissipate, engendering a both fascinating and satisfying audio journey.
“Anthony Pirog’s work is otherworldly – feverish in its delivery and interstellar in its complexity – but his feet have long been planted on the ground in Washington DC. When he was a kid he soaked up the city’s music, studying Danny Gatton and blues transplant Roy Buchanan… But what’s the most DC thing a DC musician can do? Well, they could start a band with members of Fugazi. That would do it...”
– Guitar.com