STILL SINGLE

A space for thoughts on music and culture, as written by Doug Mosurock and a select handful of individuals. This is intended as a supplement to our regular feature Still Single, published on Dusted Magazine. Updates will run here more frequently, and may feature writing on music not covered in the column. Compact discs are still not accepted for review -- we have more than enough vinyl and the occasional cassette to worry about.

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September 20, 2010

Duane Pitre – Origin LP (Root Strata)

I can say this about very few records that come down this path: this time, I was there. Duane Pitre was my downstairs neighbor in Greenpoint, in a building we have both since vacated. Origin was the work he was composing in our shared time as brownstone-dwellers, and I heard the finely-intoned drones of “Sun AM” and “Sun PM” shaking my floorboards just about every day for a nine-month period. Those were good times, despite the environment and our completely insane landlady. At first I tried to combat the drone with a force equal and opposite (Vol. 4, natch) but it didn’t take long to become thoroughly enamored of what Pitre was attempting with bowed, specially-tuned guitars – to draw them out along an extended timeline to the sweet beyond. Pitre is now back in Louisiana, I believe, and even if we didn’t have these special circumstances, I would still possess a reverence for this work, rooted in documented theory but borne in personal peace and satisfaction. If only these sounds could have pierced the thick domes of the drunks that gathered around our building, or the desperate souls who cut the electrical cords off of discarded appliances to sell for scrap metal, rendering them completely useless to fans of hand-me-downs. (http://rootstrata.com)
(Doug Mosurock)

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