VISITOR, by Cyrus Pireh

VISITOR

by Cyrus Pireh

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1.	What Are We Doing What Could Be Done? 12:37	buy track
2.	Sending Positive Vibes 04:35	buy track
3.	Paths 01:21	buy track
4.	O.U.T. for Ale 00:55	buy track
5.	Beating Wings of the Hawk Pinned to the Grill of an I-80 Semi 11:47	buy track
6.	Erased and Marginalized Original Persons of the Electric Guitar 09:00	buy track

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Why listen to this music?
Listen to VISIT the limits of what's human
Listen to imagine yourself playing
To hear the established order fraying
To dream of realms outside
To know others are still alive
Listen to the sound of hand on steel
Listen to feel.

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VISITOR-- Cyrus Pireh’s 3rd record of transcendental shred electric guitar for the Artist Pool label.

Legend: E9 = Esquire 9-string. T6 = Telecaster 6-string. K9 = Kawai 9-string. S6 = Stratocaster 6-string. SG = 6-string National SG. FL = Future Lute.

A1.) WHAT ARE WE DOING WHAT COULD BE DONE? (12:37): A blues. Asking what must be asked. E9. Once I let go of the pick, the door to the universal 12 opened providing access to all meters, all pitches, all hours, and all seasons. This is a piece of music built to contain lifetimes. I look forward to dwelling within it for the foreseeable future.

2.) SENDING POSITIVE VIBES (4:35): What is radiated outward has no end. FL.

3.) PATHS (1:21): There are many ways forward T6.

4.) O.U.T. FOR ALE (0:55): To a friend. S6.

B1.) BEATING WINGS OF THE HAWK PINNED TO THE GRILL OF AN I-80 SEMI (11:47): This is a true story. Westward bound on I-80, an 18 wheeler filled the rear-view. Fixed on the grill: a most ostentatious decoration-- a taxidermy eagle signifying the immensity of the driver’s usa pride? No. The truck moved left to pass and it became clear. It was a red-tailed hawk, alive, battling. The fierceness of its eyes forced yours away. One beat of its wings rolled the truck, tumbling it twice across the six-lane before landing in a heap of metal at the roadside. Loosed and victorious, the hawk ascended into the wine-dark sky. E9. Subtractive Shred: Moving a piece of steel over the pickup interrupts the electric guitar’s signal. Moving it fast enough creates its own tone.

2.) ERASED AND MARGINALIZED ORIGINAL PERSONS OF THE ELECTRIC GUITAR (9:00): A reminder that the first are never the first. E9, T6, S6, K9, FL, SG. History, as concept and practice, ensures that we will never truly know who created the instrument. The rational desire is not to be imprisoned in the racist, hetero-patriarchal, colonialist official record, but to be free of it, knowingly unknown.

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released October 21, 2022

Recorded at No Room 2020
Mastered by Matt Mehlan at The Stuudio
All thanks to Meg, Matt, & You. Thank You Guitar.
Humans in harmony liberate each other.
Nothing is for certain. Music is the way.

4gre.org

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CYRUS PIREH was born in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, usa, on March 22, 1981. As a composer, Cyrus's works involve sign manipulation with the purpose of keeping the interpretive field open. As a guitarist, Cyrus seeks the limits of the body and the self. As an anarchist, Cyrus actively works to dismantle hierarchy and to heal the damages done by capital’s division of people into performers and audience, producers and consumers. In music, it is not possible to obstruct one sound with another. All sounds combine to create one harmony. Humans in harmony liberate each other. Cyrus Pireh complete bio: 4gre.org/C/bio.html

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