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Dan Pitt Trio: Stages
ByCanadian guitarist Dan Pitt rolls with the guitar trio format on his Stages, though his trio is a good deal more intricate and musically skilled than the typical garage band. Much of this set of Pitt's originals contains a foreboding dirge-like mood ("Foreboding," "Part Two"). Some of it simply rips ("Fifteen Minutes," which, for the record, clocks in at a bit over four minutes). Everybody has their chops in orderPitt, bassist Alex Fournier, drummer Nick Fraser. And "Ghosts" is a dense sound. It could be mistaken, on a blind listen, as something guitarist Terje Rypdal recorded for ECM Records, while the title tune unfolds in a patient manner, getting prickly along the way, the band sounding dangerous, like a trio of new sheriffs in town, looking to kick some ass and take names later.
Then turn back and play from the beginningbecause Stages invites thisand find, again, "Fourteen Days," a tune featuring Pitt's delicacy and deftness of toucha composition with a folk song quality. Call it a muscular "electro-folk." Then spin on to "Tape Age," and find Pitt playing with a ringing clarity of tone in front of the beautiful murk of Fournier's bowed bass and the subdued and deliberative rumble of Fraser's drums.
Track Listing
Fourteen Days; Part Two; Foreboding; Tape Age; Fifteen Minutes; Ghosts; Stages.
Personnel
Album information
Title: Stages | Year Released: 2023 | Record Label: Self Published
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