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solo Mike Feeney using the following instruments: electric guitar, loopers, Korg Microsynth, Korg EA-1 and Zoom MRT-3 Drum Machine

Madame Curie's Cabinet (click cd cover to purchase)
  • Prospects
  • Subatomic Whisper
  • Potential
  • Release
  • Applied Knowledge
  • Shed Those Neutrons
  • Research
  • Try Again
  • Pitchblend
  • Radium
  • X-Ray
  • Success
  • Potential Released
  • Mike Feeney: Guitars/Effects/Loops/Dissonance 

    ©2008 Michael Feeney, Recorded at Hidden Fortress Studios  Ancient Pistol can be contacted thru the following means: c/o M Feeney, 40 Nonantum Street, Brighton, MA 02135 www.ancientpistol.com, www.myspace.com/ancientpistol; ancient_pistol@hotmail.com

The Bear Hill Phenomenon (click cd cover to purchase)
Bear Hill Phenomenon- An Atom Age Soundscape
  • Area P-46
  • A-Waves
  • Dance of the Atoms
  • Drawer 21
  • Spiral Labyrinths
  • Phobos
  • Man in Black 46
  • Admilrante Saldante
  • Las Cruces
  • That Washington Flap
  • The Calgary Photograph
  • The Bear Hill Phenomenon

Recorded at Hidden Fortress Studios, BrightonMA

Ancient Pistol is Mike Feeney: Guitars/Effects/Loops/Dissonance ©2007 Michael FeeneyAncient Pistol can be contacted thru the following means:c/o M Feeney, 40 Nonantum Street, Brighton, MA   02135www.ancientpistol.com, www.myspace.com/ancientpistolancient_pistol@hotmail.comPhoto by Mike Feeney on the road in Waltham MA

 Review:

 Michael Feeney is the mastermind behind these entirely instrumental self-designated soundscapes, which in their tonalities bring to mind such examples as very early Gang of Four, PiL, and Wire. But the musique concrete which results, though texturally intriguing to a diehard avant-guardian, ultimately seems more an application of mathematical formulae than a living, breathing entity; I get the distinct impression that this is what two jumbo jet computers might have to say to each other as they traverse the boundless ionosphere. (Francis DiMenno)

-The Noise, May 2008


It's All Energy to Me (click cd cover to purchase)
 

It’s All Energy To me- A Nuclear Soundscape

Control Rods                        

Sieverts                                   

Roentgens                              

Grays                                       

Becquerels/Curies/Ohms*  

Coulomb                                 

Turbine                                  

Recorded at Hidden Fortress Studios, Brighton,  MA  Ancient Pistol is Mike Feeney:  Guitars/Effects/Loops/Dissonance

 ©2007-2008 Michael Feeney PhotoCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/N. Flagey (IAS/SSC) & A. Noriega-Crespo (SSC/Caltech)

* podcast on Zradio

Zradio 100th Show
 Track 2 The Philadelphia Experiment

 Record and iPod broadcast live as part of the ZRadio 100th Show Live at the art@sophi gallery in Philadelphia, PA that occured February 8, 2007.

 Released by Zonoba Records 

©2007 Michael Feeney for The Philadelphia Experiment


White Sands Memories (click cd cover to purchase)
 

White Sands Memories = A Nuclear Soundscape

Part 1     The Tower

Part 1I    The Device    

Part 1II  The Decision    

Part 1V  The Ignition   

Part V    The Consequences  

  

Recorded at Hidden Fortress Studios, Brighton,  MA

Ancient Pistol is Mike Feeney: Guitars/Effects/Loops/Dissonance

©2006 MichaelFeeney

 

Review:

"White Sands Memories = A Nuclear Soundscape" is the third official release of Ancient Pistol, hailing from the Boston area. Guitarist Mike Feeney mixes his instrumentals with effects, delays, electronica, and dissonance to create his vision of the experience of a "nuclear soundscape".  White Sands Memories consists of five parts, labeled as "The Tower", "The Device", "The Decision", "The Ignition", and "The Consequences". If the listener lets imagination take hold, a post-nuclear desolate, surreal world comes to life (or lack thereof) through a cacophony of sound. It would also play well in a spooky, sci-fi, Twilight Zone kind of genre. Ancient Pistol's "progressive, alternative, experimental" riffs jar the brain and activates the emotions.  *** Worth a Listen

 

-Phosphorescence Magazine

The Three Pillars of Solar Fusion (click on cd cover to purchase)
 

Pardon My Neutrino           

The Subatomic Suite                      

Wrestling the Nucleus                    

 

Recorded at                                 

Hidden Fortress Studios,  Brighton,  MA

Ancient Pistol is Mike Feeney:

Guitars/Effects/Loops/Dissonance

©2006 Michael Feeney

Review:

The replica of music performance was made by one of your kind using guitars and tape loops.  This is a one-man popsicle stand, but no tasty milk-derived substances are available.  But do not be dismayed.  This human, Michael Feeney, influenced by such notables as Robert Fripp as well as such notable beings as Mission of Burma, Wall of Voodoo, Ennio Morricone, and the Ohio Players has produced an instrumental CD of three long songs equaling 47 earth minutes.  It is experimental.  It is good.  It’s not ambient.  It is self-indulgent, but in a good way.  It does not want to make me dance or copulate.  There is other fine music music for such unseemly activity.  I recommend listening to this.  But do not listen to your leaders, political, religious or otherwise.  They tell lies, I do not.  Procure this music; it is as scrumptious as milk-derived substances.  Yum.  (Slimedog) 

-The Noise, November 2006


Tunguska - A Nuclear Soundscape (click on cd cover to purchase)
 

A Nuclear Soundscape collaboration between the Zradio in the form of Thee Headless Legless Maggots (better known as Zradio of Philadelphia, PA) and Ancient Pistol.

 

Thee Headless Legless Maggots are:: Kevin Spitz, Bass; Dan Fitz, Syn Drums; Jonny Ritz, Guitar

Ancient Pistol is Mike Feeney:  Guitar/Effects/Dissonance

Tunguska  =  A Nuclear Soundscape

  1. Ancient Blitzer part  1        13:35
  2. Ancient Blitzer part   2       21:04

Recorded at Zradio Studios, Conshohocken, PA 3/26/2006
©2006  Spitz/Fitz/Ritz/Feeney

...The World Wonders
 

Reactor #3

Hampton Beach, NH           

Sorry Sid

AVRO Vulcan            

Dodgy at Best             

The Inconvenient Facts

Blizzard                   

Azathoth

  a. the Journey   

    b. the Arrival

  c. the Lingering 

Rhomboid                     

The Last Dawn Patrol    

Deuterium                     

The Defenstrator    

Recorded at Hidden Fortress Studios, BrightonMA

©2006 Michael Feeney



Sky Serpents!
Sky Serpents! is the second Ancient Pistol release: demos of songs released to Zradio and other podcasters
  1. Sky Serpents 
  2. Great Barrington Blues *
  3. Mysterious East  
  4. Electric Bells
  5. Sky Serpent Whispering in Your Ear
  6. (I’m Not the) Ogre (You Think I Am)
  7.  The Psychodrama of the Peloton
  8. Point of Re-Entry 
  9. The Link Age 
  10. Sky Serpent Arises  
  11. Nunc Pro Tunc **

 ©2006-2008 Michael Feeney  Recorded at Hidden Fortress Studios, BrightonMA

* podcast  ** available on Ancient Pistol MySpace

Mickle Might
 

The first Ancient Pistol release: demos of songs released to Zradio and other podcasters.

This cd will be the first re-recorded to be made available through CD Baby.

  1. Faster
  2. Pensive Scrutiny
  3. Dinsdale's Day*
  4. Alabaster
  5. Industrial Strength
  6. Lilt
  7. Load/Apex of Velocity
  8. Massive*
  9. The Eighth*
  10. Improv. The Brian Classic Pt. 1
  11. Improv. The Brian Classic Pt..  2 

©2005-2006, 2008 Michael Feeney

 Recorded at Hidden Fortress Studios, BrightonMA

* indicates songs on MySpace site of Ancient Pistol