Piano Trance series vol. 1: Saturn in Pisces

by Arrington de Dionyso

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Tom Dyer I was rather surprised by Arrington's piano chops - I recently saw him perform solo out at the Evergreen State College. Most enjoyable. Favorite track: My Bones Are Made of Something Mighty.

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1.	Invocation 01:37	buy track
2.	The Old Walnut Tree 04:21	buy track
3.	Spinal Cord of the Rainbow Serpent Blues 02:47	buy track
4.	Everybody Knows When the Volcano's Gonna Blow 03:06	buy track
5.	Dragon Tax 02:37	buy track
6.	My Bones Are Made of Something Mighty 03:36	buy track
7.	Juniper Smoke and Vodka, Panther Juice and Rum 08:36	buy track
8.	A Sketch on a Scrap of Paper 00:20	buy track
9.	Still Cold In Springtime Blues 02:22	buy track
10.	Dimitri Says 00:35	buy track
11.	The Embrace of the Sudden Storm 02:35	buy track
12.	She Carries the Weight of the Moon 04:41	buy track
13.	The Divine Horsemen 01:18	buy track
14.	Drop it Like it's Hot 01:02	buy track
15.	The Mystery of Bou Jeloud and the Four Thousand Year Old Rock and Roll Band 13:27	buy track
16.	My Bones Are Made of Falling Towers 03:22	buy track
17.	From the Hills What Thunder Comes 02:27	buy track

about

This album is an act of Magick!
Recorded, mixed, mastered and released within one day to mark the auspicious entry of Saturn into Pisces, to ward off evil influence and exorcise demons!

This my first EVER album release showcasing my work with that most Western Canon of instruments, the illustrious Piano Forte. Let the powerful dream magic of Pisces dissolve whatever stale structures need to be broken down and digested, let the wisdom of Saturn give structure and lay foundation for our wildest spell-work!

What do you think? I felt absolutely possessed while making this and it's been an enormous joy listening back to it. Is it compelling or interesting to anyone else out there to hear what I'm doing on the piano? I would be open to doing more of this in a "proper" studio and maybe a piano-only concert now and then if there is interest. Totally cool if it's not your thing though.

A little background on this record for those who wish to read further: very few people know this, but piano was actually the first instrument I ever played. I would sneak up to the piano after church and pound the keys until a responsible adult would remove me from the holy milieu. Maybe they only heard a child making noise, but I could hear rich symphonies of dancing dragons, rain storms, circus performers and talking trees. For a short time I was "forced" to take lessons which I hated, because it was mind numbingly boring and only about learning the names of notes on the paper, not about unleashing torrents of ecstatic, all-consuming sheets of sound with the massive power of 88 tuned drums.

As I think more upon this theme of "Saturn in Pisces" I remember how I set out early in my musical career to offer the world what I envisioned as a complete and total rejection of all the norms and traditions of "Western Civilization" as I saw it- and how musically speaking at least, a piano in some ways represents the epitome of everything I sought to tear down. The spacing and division of the notes the way they are on a piano isn't "natural" in terms of creating purely intuitive music, as there is a structure determined by the instrument itself that is impossible to completely break away from without significantly altering the instrument itself.

Of course at the same time maybe that is all total nonsense: I've had countless life-changing experiences listening to and even playing with some of the greatest piano players alive, who seem to effortlessly imbue this instrument of "Saturnine structure" with life-affirming creativity and imagination (Pisces). The LIMITATIONS (Saturn) of the instrument as it is handed down to us by Western tradition and world-view determining how sounds should be sounded, played by some hands at least, have the potential of delivering the listener into higher realms of boundless wonder and emotional catharsis. Total freedom? idk

SO what then is the piano repertoire of Arrington de Dionyso? Here I attempt to work within the limitations of the instrument (no special avant-garde "preparations") as well as my own limitations in ability to play it. I touch the piano as a life-force conductor and conjure up some Hoodoo that hearkens a little bit to Stravinsky and Don Van Vliet, along with all those ancient planets of blues, jazz, classical, post-classical and the far-flung moons of post free 60's minimalist potentialities...I also bring in the rich years of experience that delivered me to the center of the horse-trance dances of East Java, the blaring pipes and pounding drums of Jajouka, down the raspy throats of the fire-breathing shamans of Tuva...like those famous mycelial threads on the forest floor, structures are built by connecting points between fragile cells, sometimes falling apart, sometimes changing directions, sometimes making a mess and picking up the blood-stained pieces out of the mud.

Man, I hope you dig it!

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released March 9, 2023

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Arrington de Dionyso Olympia, Washington

Arrington de Dionyso conjures Utopic Spaces with multiphonic vocal work & minimalist instrumentation. It's shamanic seance meets rock and roll ecstasy; “TRANCE PUNK” combining traditional ritual trance, electrified experimental approaches, dancehall rhythms, gamelan scales and mystically inspired Indonesian incantations. Shocking and hallucinatory, MALAIKAT DAN SINGA always aims to channel Spirit. ... more

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