Chris Pitsiokos is a Brooklyn-based composer, improviser and multi-instrumentalist. While his music is not concerned with genre, it draws from the concepts and aesthetics of noise, contemporary classical, contemporary improvisation, jazz, extreme rock forms and other musics. He has been praised for his “startlingly original vision” and “astonishingly fleet sax work.” Some identified his band CP Unit as “A persuasive combination of harmolodic jazz and contemporary noise rock.” As a soloist Chris has developed a unique voice on the alto saxophone: his expansion of the instrument’s vocabulary has served to multiply its emotive and formal possibilities. His compositions often provide a framework for performers to express a singular aesthetic vision without subjugating their voices as creative agents in their own right. In this way his work contrasts with traditional modes of composition in which the composer or band leader is the sole, or primary, arbiter of a unified, preconceived vision.
Playlist :
Chris Pitsiokos : Lapsarian (Carny Cant - Eleatic Records - 2021)
Daniel Levin, Chris Pitsiokos & Brandon Seabrook : Photonectes Gracilis (Stomiidae - Dark Tree - 2018
Weasel Walter And Chris Pitsiokos : Hanged (Drawn And Quartered - One Hand Records - 2015)
Otomo Yoshihide / Chris Pitsiokos : Four (Live In Florence - Astral Spirits - 2020)
Chris Pitsiokos : To Roscoe Mitchell (Speak In Tongues and Hope for the Gift of Interpretation - Relative Pitch Records - 2020)
Chris Pitsiokos Trio : Prologue (Gordian Twine - New Atlantis Records - 2015)
CP Unit : Once Upon A Time Called Now (Silver Bullet In The Autumn Of Your Years - Clean Feed - 2018)
Nate Wooley : Knknighgh 4 (Knknighgh (Minimal Poetry For Aram Saroyan) - Clean Feed - 2017)