Name: Pocket Poem
Brand: Anthony Pirog

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

RUNE468

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-10-23

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Shellshock

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0045775046822

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Anthony Pirog

Genre GB

Jazz

Label GB

Cuneiform

<p>With their website <a href="http://www.cuneiformrecords.com">www.cuneiformrecords.com</a>, Cuneiform provides a platform for music enthusiasts to explore and discover extraordinary talent across various genres. Collaborating with Wayside Music, an online music mail order service founded in 1980, they have established themselves as a trusted source for exceptional musical experiences.</p>

While it might confound those fixated with an artist's niche in the marketplace, guitarist Anthony Pirog knows little of stylistic limitations-in point of fact, Pirog's latest opus brings to mind the beloved Duke Ellington adage: Beyond category. Initially based in jazz, Pirog's seeming objective is to be a "category" unto himself, embracing not only jazz but avant-garde and indie rock, noise, and ambient soundscapes. Pocket Poem, his second under his own name and his first since joining forces with 50% of DC's legendary Fugazi as Messthetics (with two releases on Dischord), is in a zone where stylistic "handles" matter little but the idea of music is vibrant, expansive, and kaleidoscopic. 

"Anthony Pirog's work is otherworldly - feverish in its delivery and interstellar in its complexity - but his feet have long been planted on the ground in Washington DC... But what's the most DC thing a DC musician can do? Well, they could start a band with members of Fugazi. That would do it..." - Guitar.com. "So this is what all the fuss is about...[regarding] Anthony Pirog's status as a Washington, D.C. area guitar god...and for all his technical prowess, Pirog possesses a skilled composer's knack for memorable themes and melodies." - AllMusic.

Pocket Poem

Music GB