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DRAGON-OFF

DRAGON-OFF (Organic Music)

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BARONG, (Album Barong, available on I-Tunes)
VIDEO ANIMATION "MARS ATTACK" from the album: "Barong"

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DRAGON-OFF is a virtual band directed by Pierre De gagné who plays all the instruments (acoustic and electronics) and who sing all the voices, create and arrange all the music... Pierre often invite different artists to complete the arrangements on his music. Violonist François Boucher is one of the regular artist invited on the 2 albums. François also collaborates on the creation of a few songs... DRAGON-OFF is a blend of oriental and occidental styles and the music is create with the principle of multi-tracking witch consist of recording layers of instruments to create a mass of sounds. The same musician can play the guitars, mandolins synths, many voices all at once... Surely, this music can't be play "Live"... But with different accompaniements on the computer, it could be !!!
The first album S.O.S. CONSTELLATIONS is a suite of different little pieces all joined together, making a longer piece... If you've heard TUBULAR BELLS (Mike Oldfield), you know what i'm talking about... Based on the hammer dulcimer (or cymbalum), this first album brings you into an inside world such as a little movie in your head... Very pictural music, and every one has it own story... TO BUY the album S.O.S. CONSTELLATIONS on I-Tunes, click below
The second album (also available on ITUNES) is based on the same principle of multi-tracking but is not presented as a suite. On each of the songs, there is an instrument featured such as didgeridoo on the main piece BARONG, a buzzing trumpet on MYSTIC CHRIS, an astonishing piano chaos on PIANOCTOBRE, a mountain dulcimer on ELECTRO-JOY and so on. Violin is still present on this second album, also mandolin, lyre and guitars... The voice is also very present and is mostly used as TEXTURAL and instrumental... Some pieces use real language such as spanish, english and indonesian (MARS ATTACK). Some other voices uses invented language mostly ambiant or as abstract sounds...
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LE PROJET DRAGON-OFF est basé sur le concept du multi-piste, qui consiste à enregistrer un à un, les différents instruments (qui sont joués par le même musicien) pour créer des textures et des masses sonores... DRAGON-OFF cherche la balance entre instruments acoustiques, électriques et électroniques ainsi que des textures vocales...

DRAGON-OFF a à son actif 2 albums: S.O.S.Constellations paru en 1999 (une suite instrumentale galactique acoustique et electronique) où les pièces se suivent dans un ordre chronologique pour créer une plus grande pièce en 2 mouvements de 26m chacune. Si vous connaissez TUBULAR BELLS de (Mike Oldfield) vous comprenez le concept...

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BARONG, le tout nouvel album paru en 2007 est basé sur le même principe de multi-piste, mais n'est pas présenté sous forme de suite. Sur chacune des pièces est mis en valeur un instrument principal. La pièce BARONG utilise un didgeridoo (instrument aborigène d'Australie), ELECTRO-JOY met en valeur un dulcimer, MYSTIC CHRIS, une trompette étourdissante, PIANOCTOBRE, un piano chaotique créé à partir d'échantillons de recherches universitaires... La voix devenu très présente sur ce deuxième album utilise différentes langues tels l'indonésien (MARS ATTACK), l'espagnol (BARONG) et l'anglais (MYSTIC CHRIS)... mais aussi une langue inventée pour créer des textures vocales plutôt que de donner un sens aux mots chantés...
BONNE ÉCOUTE
L'ALBUM BARONG ET S.O.S.CONSTELLATIONS SONT EN VENTE SUR I-TUNES STORE

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/29/2007
Band Website: dragon-off.com
Band Members: Pierre De Gagné: all guitars /Classic / Electric / Acoustic / MIDI, mandolins. ukulele, banjo, dulcimer, bidules à cordes, Synthetisers, Drums, Percussions, programmations, all voices and allouette...

BAND-O-NEON "Live" au café Campus (extrait)

Musicians/Artists invited:
François Boucher: Violons
Nicolas Letarte: drums, percussion
Christopher Varady-Szabo: Trumpet

Vincent pellerin: Saxophones
Philippe Du Berger: Flutes à bec (Recorder)
Dominic Doineau: Didgeridoo
Catherine Barbier:guitar on Lila-Cita, official webmaster and Inspiration


Influences: Rock progressif, musique Electro-acoustique, Classique, Médiévale, World, Folk et New age Ambiant, Dick Annegarn, Malicorne, Bertrand Gosselin, Harmonium, Opus 5, Octobre, TEMPOREL, YES, Beatles, STRAWBS, Mike Oldfield, le cirque du Soleil, Deep Forest, Pink Floyd, Gentle Giant, , Ennio Morricone, musique de film sans images... pop indonésien, Dead Can Dance, GENESIS, Jon Anderson (Olias of Sunhillow), King Krimson, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, popeye, Philémon et les critikacouatiks, Le vieux barde fou, Mystic Chris, MRUTA-MERTSI...


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Sounds Like: DRAGON-OFF



Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

le projet DRAGON-OFF

Pierre De Gagné est fier de vous présenter BARONG, le tout nouvel album de Dragon-off, un heureux mélange d’instruments acoustiques et électroniques parsemé de textures vocales riches et explora...
Posted by DRAGON-OFF on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:54:00 PST

S.O.S. Constellations / dragon-off first album

S.O.S. ConstellationsI composed the music for S.O.S. Constellations in a linear chronological fashion, as if it were a suite. I created each piece with a real sequence that recognizes its chronologica...
Posted by DRAGON-OFF on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:10:00 PST

BARONG info on the album

Barong (second album, 2007)I composed the second album, Barong, over a period of four years and revamped it on a number of occasions before settling on a final version. The album alternates between ma...
Posted by DRAGON-OFF on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:11:00 PST

Lalbum BARONG de DRAGON-OFF

Part 2Electro-joy est principalement construite autour d’une mélodie jouée par un dulcimer à quatre cordes et dont le son contraste avec le timbre très électronique de la section rythmique. Un v...
Posted by DRAGON-OFF on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:58:00 PST

the dragon-off project

Project"My approach to this music is akin to that of a soundtrack laid over a film of my thoughts." (Kin Soom Kao)Dragon-off is a personal instrumental music that links electronic (synthesizer program...
Posted by DRAGON-OFF on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:07:00 PST

Welcome from dragon-off, Pierre de Gagné project

Welcome to the myspace site .DRAGON-OFF The musical soundtrack for the film of my thoughts.Dragon-off is an instrumental, electronic, and ethno-acoustic music project I embarked on in 1998 in an effor...
Posted by DRAGON-OFF on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:43:00 PST

DRAGON-OFF 2nd album, Barong guided tour

Guided tourBarong, the piece featured at the beginning of the album, relies on multiple meditative voices (32) in a symbiotic relationship with the more rhythmic sounds of two didgeridoos (Australian ...
Posted by DRAGON-OFF on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:13:00 PST

Lalbum BARONG (part 1)

La pièce Barong qui débute l’album utilise une construction où les multiples voix méditatives (32) en symbiose avec le son plus rythmique de deux didgeridoos (instrument aborigène australien) cr...
Posted by DRAGON-OFF on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:56:00 PST

Musique instrumentale

La musique instrumentale selon Dragon-off, nécessite une bonne dose de surprisesLes instruments qui se partagent la musique peuvent aussi recréer de nouveaux timbresle doublage des instruments permet ...
Posted by DRAGON-OFF on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:14:00 PST

pochette de BARONG / DRAGON-OFF

pochette de l'album sleeve BARONG...
Posted by DRAGON-OFF on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:13:00 PST