Exclusive video premiere of the second single, ‘Locket’ by Andrew Pitrone, taken from ‘Aurora Montage’ EP, out April 22nd via Lolipop Records.

Speaking on the new track, Andrew wrote: “‘Locket’ is a song about the idea of committing to someone. In a sense when someone puts a photo in a locket it signifies their commitment to that person, that person in the photographs being extra special to them, in their heart, or close to their heart. If you were going to cut someone into the size of a little locket and shove them into the shape, even in the most loving gentle way, it might sound something like the feeling of the song Locket. Suggesting that someone put you in their locket is like suggesting that they should feel free to have that attachment”.

Andrew Pitrone, Andrew the Artist, puts the journey in journeyman, living in various cities and townships up and down the western edge of America, filling his time with song and art-by-hand. Chiefly of which being a film project scripted around the actual building of a barn in the no-man’s-land’s of southwestern Oregon. “Many times I find that when I’m doing manual work, poems, melodies, and songs come in,” laments Pitrone. His duty to his muse in all artistic fascits presents a remarkable examination of an artist who’s very life is the gesamtkunstwerk (total artwork). “Sometimes I feel that I am the medium for the product and the tools are using me.”

In the first song from his upcoming EP on Lolipop Records ‘Aurora Montag’e entitled, ‘Life is But a Dream’, Pitrone sets his tone early by achieving sea-legged sure-footing. Merrily, merrily he dances through gentle numbers dressed in melodic flights of fancy akin to that of English folk paragons, The Incredible String Band or corkscrewed beau-idéals like Donovan or Tyrannosaurus Rex. This song, as the others on Aurora Montages, bears the same regular swirl of joviality a la Small Faces in their ‘Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake’ era, all accumulating to the overarching feeling of whimsy on a whim. The intoxicating lilt of lyrics sung by Pitrone lifts the heart with beauty and grace, no doubt signaled by the album’s early appearance of a goldfinch in the bush.

Andrew Pitrone’s ‘Aurora Montage’ is not out-of-place in this new folk era but, rather, gently lends a lesson in lineage to a time when creativity abounded in the genre. When the head that expanded the farthest wore the crown. By today’s measure that leaves Andrew Pitrone as one uniquely positioned to revitalize and reinvigorate, at the very least decorate jubilantly, the path to folk and back. Of his songs he says, “I’m not sure who the songs are for, if not for me, [but] I hope they find their way to whomever they were meant for.”

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