• A JOURNEY THROUGH SOUND & THOUGHT •

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Cutting his teeth as a performing rock musician in the Northeast and East Coast between the late 80's and early 2000s, musician and producer Bryon Turcotte quickly transitioned his passion and concentration for creativity into building instrumental and loop/sample based electronic music for film while supporting independent artists as an advocate and producer, working as a music journalist, and serving as a regional A&R scout for a handful of record labels. As both his professional and creative resume grew during this time, his knowledge base also expanded, allowing him to learn about more musical styles, become inspired to write more material, and redefine his purpose as a musician, engineer, and producer. The obvious next step was to take another journey combining all the tools picked up along the way to make music that will satisfy his need to express his influences and exercise his creative freedom and inspirations.

Turcotte began composing music under the name "The Bandless Hands" in the year 2000. An idea born from composing, engineering, and recording music as an individual, but, to the best of his ability, perform and produce to create a sound and a true energy that would come from a group of engaged, collaborating musicians in a live studio setting. Since that time, Turcotte has recorded and released multiple albums - each inspired by a wide range of musical styles including Folk/Singer Songwriter, Alternative Rock, Pop, Instrumental Electronic, Soulful Jazz, along with Loop-Powered Hip Hop and Trance. As a multi-instrumentalist, lyricist, and composer, Turcotte evolved into a creative feeling free of genre and labels of style.

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 • ALBUM RELEASES - 1995 to 2025  •

 

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The fully analog 4 and 8 track recordings produced between 1995 and 2005 were compiled on the first album, "Glory Hole Five", a great sampling of Turcotte's earliest solo work and experimentation with self production, engineering, and musicianship. Also, it is the composers first complete dedication to songwriting and arranging using the acoustic guitar as the foundation instrument. A 20th Anniversary re-release of this early collection of The Bandless Hands is scheduled for late 2025. Stay tuned!

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The rare compilation, "A Cache of Less Ordinary Jewels (2003-2017)", includes a collection of instrumental music composed for numerous projects during the composer's electronic, loop driven period which exhibits a more experimental period using samples, beats, and more digitally based recording techniques. This is a wide array of creation that includes compositions produced from both analog tape and fully digital audio workstations at Turcotte's home studios.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The album "A Single, Quick Movement" is a collection of music written in seclusion during the 2020 - 2021 Pandemic lockdown reflecting some personal loss, relationship examination, and observance of a changing world and how a major life-changing event can have such a permanent effect on lifestyle, emotional well-being, and mental stability. The first album by Turcotte since his solo Boston-based recordings produced after his departure as bass player of the power-pop band Driveway in 1997.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The newest album, titled "One Eye Open", will be released on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 and promises to be a collection of tight production, powerful rhythms, meaningful songwriting, and emotionally driven soundscapes that have been a traditional concept since the project's beginnings over 25 years ago.

 

 

 

Please sample the available music through the links below or go to Soundcloud to listen to each collection in full HD sound.