Dear friends
Covid-19 is dangerously impacting the social-economic category of musicians. No concerts, poor political and social consideration, uncertain earnings. As a consequence, an ever-growing number of musicians, especially those from the experimental area, are trying to promote their music on BandCamp in digital format only. It is increasingly difficult for me to follow and review this incredible flow of music. I therefore decided to open this section on my blog Neuguitars where I propose music in digital format that I consider particularly interesting and worthy of attention. I hope you like it. Let’s support musicians. They need it.
Andrea Aguzzi
Pocket Poem by Anthony Pirog, Cuneiform Records, 2020 on #neuguitars #blog
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pocket-poem-2
“[Pocket Poem] is AAA+++
Best guitar album of the year so far; he did everything right.
I am super impressed.” – Henry Kaiser
“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
“So this is what all the fuss is about…[regarding] Anthony Pirog’s status as a Washington, D.C. area guitar god…and for all his technical prowess, Pirog possesses a skilled composer’s knack for memorable themes and melodies.” – Dave Lynch / AllMusic
“Interestingly, Pirog, who studied jazz guitar at Berklee and NYU, doesn’t play much actual jazz here. Instead, he explores folk and psychedelia, drawing on the sounds of the sixties, but reinterpreting them firmly for the twenty-first century. He does this in part with the use of guitar synthesizers, but rather than put them up front in the style of Pat Metheny or Allan Holdsworth, he uses…
credits
released October 16, 2020
Anthony Pirog – guitar and electronics
Michael Formanek – acoustic and electric bass
Ches Smith – drums, percussion and electronics
All compositions by Anthony Pirog.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Mike Reina.
Produced by Janel Leppin, Mike Reina and Anthony Pirog.
Front cover weaving by Janel Leppin.
Dog Daze
Anthony Pirog – electric and acoustic guitars, Roland GR-700 guitar synthesizer, Roland Juno-60, Sequential Circuits Six-Trak, loops
Michael Formanek – acoustic bass
Ches Smith – drums, vibraphone
Dawn Cloud
Anthony Pirog – electric and acoustic guitars, Korg X-911 guitar synthesizer, Roland GR-700 guitar synthesizer, loops
Michael Formanek – acoustic bass
Ches Smith – drums
Honeymoon Room
Anthony Pirog – electric and acoustic guitars, Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, Synthesizers.com Portable 22, loops, gong
Michael Formanek – acoustic bass
Sitting Under Stars
Anthony Pirog – acoustic guitars, lap steel guitar, loops
The Severing
Anthony Pirog – electric guitars
Adonna the Painter
Anthony Pirog – electric and acoustic guitars, Roland GR-300 guitar synth, Roland GR-20 guitar synth, Roland Juno-60, Wurlitzer 4022D, loops
Michael Formanek – acoustic bass
Ches Smith – drums
Danger Play
Anthony Pirog – electric and classical guitars, Roland GR-300 guitar synth
Michael Formanek – acoustic bass
Ches Smith – percussion
Pocket Poem
Anthony Pirog – electric and acoustic guitars, Roland GR-700 guitar synthesizer, Roland JU-06
Michael Formanek – electric and acoustic bass
Ches Smith – drums
Mori Point
Anthony Pirog – electric and acoustic guitars, Roland GR-700 guitar synthesizer, Korg Volca Keys, Boss Dr. Pad
Michael Formanek – acoustic bass
Ches Smith – drums
Mike Reina – samples
Part and Particle
Anthony Pirog – electric guitar, Roland GR-1 guitar synthesizer
Beecher
Anthony Pirog – baritone guitar, Roland GR-300 guitar synth, Roland HR-106, loops
Michael Formanek – acoustic bass
Spinal Fusion
Anthony Pirog – electric guitar, Casio DG-20, circuit bent toys, Korg Volca Beats, Boss Dr. Pad
Michael Formanek – acoustic bass
Ches Smith – drums
Untitled Atlas
Anthony Pirog – electric and acoustic guitars, Critter and Guitari Pocket Piano, Stylophone, samples
Michael Formanek – acoustic bass
Ches Smith – drums, Yamaha VSS-30, iPad
Deetjen
Anthony Pirog – Casio DG-20, Synthesizers.com Portable 22
Michael Formanek – electric bass
Ches Smith – drums, iPad
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