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Discography 2005-2008 and Download Store 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 Review Madame Curie’s Cabinet: A Nuclear Soundscape is an experiment in the intense. The first track, “Prospects,” left no doubt that if machinery were taking over the world, this is what it would sound like - unlikely matches of reverberations combined with an Asian influence, and a guitar, all trapped in a factory. Similarly, if subatomic particles, neutrons, and x-rays could be seen dancing together with the naked eye, “Potential” is the music that would be playing in the background. The mind cannot help but envision scenarios such as white-coated individuals in a quantum laboratory performing a psychedelic brain scan when “Shed Those Neutrons” echoes through your head. Okay, so maybe you’d visualize something else entirely, but this was our listening experience, so bear with us. “Pitch Blend” was the devil himself playing a fiddle, as dissonant as it comes, and closing the album was “Success!,” a hard core rock celebration, and “Potential Released,” an all-out onslaught of energy. Phosphorescence Magazine September 2009
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, Brighton, MA Ancient Pistol is Mike Feeney: Guitars/Effects/Loops/Dissonance ©2007 Michael Feeney Photo by Mike Feeney on the road in Waltham MA Reviews: 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 The Bear Hill Phenomenon, is other-worldly. The first four tracks feature “normal”, recognizable music with only a hint of the disturbances that lie underneath. “Drawer 21” and “The Calgary Photograph” are muted and undercover, as if something is being held back. Then, the otherworldliness steps in, and one is led into the unknown, where “Admilrante Saldante,” propels us straight into infinity, a leap beyond the identifiable. It takes talent to fit all the aspects of a vision such as Ancient Pistol’s together without being led astray. It seems as if Feeney is following where the vibrations take him, not vice versa. -Phosphorescence Magazine Septmber 2009
	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 Review: Speaking of energy, the next CD entitled, It’s All Energy To Me, features the sounds of the universe. Seriously, how are we to know if these aren’t indeed the sounds of energy being intuited and channeled through the artist? We can picture Bill Nye, The Science Guy, blissfully explaining what “Control Rods,” “Sieverts,” and “Roentgens” are while the tracks of the same names blare out from their hidden source. And we must mention “Grays,” which is energy personified, with a flat out mad guitar jam and a sweet ending Phosphorescence Magazine September 2009
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 Ancient Blitzer part 1 13:35 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, Brighton, MA ©2006 Michael Feeney
	Sky Serpents! Sky Serpents! is the second Ancient Pistol release: demos of songs released to Zradio and other podcasters Sky Serpents Great Barrington Blues * Mysterious East Electric Bells Sky Serpent Whispering in Your Ear (I’m Not the) Ogre (You Think I Am) The Psychodrama of the Peloton Point of Re-Entry The Link Age Sky Serpent Arises Nunc Pro Tunc ©2006-2008 Michael Feeney Recorded at Hidden Fortress Studios, Brighton, MA** * 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. Faster Pensive Scrutiny Dinsdale's Day* Alabaster Industrial Strength Lilt Load/Apex of Velocity ©2005-2006 Michael Feeney Recorded at Hidden Fortress Studios, Brighton, MA * indicates songs on MySpace site of Ancient Pistol