Beginning to End, by Anthony Pirog

Beginning to End

by Anthony Pirog

supported by

John Cratchley Another wonderfully diverse set of guitar instrumentals from this eclectic musician...
There are some acoustic pieces in here as well (I particularly like the way Anthony uses harmonics) as the electric,processed work.
He reminds me of Fennesz in the way he builds his pieces (although he sounds nothing like him!)...
He really does approach his instrument in the spirit of enquiry and without expecting pre-determined results...it is highly original and I will listen to these pieces often,I think.

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$9.99 USD or more
Limited Edition CD-R
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
CD-R in a Jewel Case

Includes unlimited streaming of Beginning to End via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Sold Out

1.	ForgottenTimes 01:31	buy track
2.	Budding Peonies 04:20	buy track
3.	Summer Fog 02:16	buy track
4.	Happy Coat 02:10	buy track
5.	Three O'Clock Bells 05:12	buy track
6.	For Two 03:20	buy track
7.	Carlin Spring 03:57	buy track
8.	Steven in the Light 03:19	buy track
9.	Sixth of One 04:34	buy track
10.	Screaming Sun 02:45	buy track

about

Anthony Pirog is a guitarist who honed his unique take on freely improvised music while living in New York City and the Washington DC area. A guitarist well versed in many styles of music, Anthony has pushed the limits of the guitar to produce this intimate recording which is at times cacophonous, meditative and forcefully brutal, while never losing touch with his signature thoughtful deliberateness. His mastery of the use of many effects pedals is counter balanced by his performances on both nylon and twelve string acoustic guitars to produce an eclectic set of improvisations and an album with undeniable momentum. Not to be missed for fans of fringe guitar experimentation and solo instrumental improvisation.

Review by Ray Cummings
Houston Press: Friday Night Noise

On Beginning to End (Sonic Mass), his debut album, NYC-based guitarist/composer Anthony Pirog offers an aural Whitman's sampler of his core competencies: sunkissed tone poems (think John Fahey), pitch-shifted glimmer, meditative squalls, discordant piano frowns and various noisy flavors. While End's odds and, er, ends hang together quite nicely, I'm predisposed to the uglier bits; singling out just one to highlight was something of a struggle.
Dug "Screaming Sun," with its halting, gargled scree and through-a-collander electronic pops, and how "Sixth Of One" was in a constant state of metamorphasis, never content to settle for straight fuck-you blare or straining-at-harnesses seethe or heavy-lidded chordal strum.
But ultimately, "Budding Peonies" won the day. It opens with a maudlin, wavering drone and cryptic, rolling clacks, letting you get accustomed to that synthesis for a moment or two before allowing the clacks to swell in volume and - crucially - shuffling in increasingly belligerant, detuned string manipulations, rivulets of static, and the sort of buckling groans one might associate with the shifting of heavy furniture on a warehouse floor.

credits

released June 8, 2009

Recorded at Anthony’s Room Studio 2007, except track 2 recorded by Mike Harvey at American University, Washington DC. Mixed by Kevin Gutierrez at Assembley Line Studios, Vienna VA. Mastered by Randy Merrill at Scott Hull Mastering, New York, NY. Produced by Anthony Pirog. Layout by subject-matter.com, photography by Janel Leppin, phototgraph of Anthony by Shervin Lainez. All tracks improvised live by Anthony Pirog (Conjured Music ASCAP), except tracks 1 and 4 which feature improvised overdubs.

Thanks to: J.K. Dimond, Robert Lewis Pirog, Janel Leppin, Jenna & Kenny, Jennifer Carter, Pat Gillis, Scott Verrastro, Blaise Siwula, Jeff Bagato, Sangha, Warehouse Next Door, Velvet Lounge, ABC No Rio and Electric Possible.

license

about

Sonic Mass Records Washington, D.C.

anthonypirog.com

contact / help

Contact Sonic Mass Records

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Beginning to End, you may also like:

Palo Colorado Dream
by Anthony Pirog

supported by 14 fans who also own “Beginning to End”

Cannot recommend this too highly . Superb musicians led by the inventive Mr Pirog . I will need more in due course. Nick Bradey
go to album
Where Is Home
by Janel and Anthony

supported by 13 fans who also own “Beginning to End”

This is my favorite avant-garde-progressive-ambient-folk-drone-psychedelic-chamber-core album. Heh, just kidding about that description, but I'm at a loss for words, beyond that this is truly excellent stuff. Ed Buckley said it best, he's the reason I got it in the first place. Deidre House
go to album
Pocket Poem
by Anthony Pirog

supported by 12 fans who also own “Beginning to End”

I love this album so much. I don’t even know where to begin. Russell Mofsky
go to album
montage
by kay echo

An introspective record that fuses post-rock, shoegaze and ambient synth patches into a seamless array of shimmering soundscapes. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 26, 2023
go to album
Darkness Visible - EP
by Stephen Roddy

An experimental composer from Ireland, Stephen Roddy proves equally adept at crushing soundscapes as he does mysterious melodies. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 13, 2022
go to album
No Base Trio
by No Base Trio

featured on Bandcamp Radio Jul 14, 2020
go to album
Anthropocosmic Nest
by The Messthetics

supported by 10 fans who also own “Beginning to End”

This is reminiscent of fugazi but with a whole lot more amazing guitar trickery and magical melodies, this shit shlaps! ChairMan of the Bored
go to album