Ancient Pistol is a conduit for Ancient Pistol-Nuclear Soundscapes, which is just my guitar, my loopers and me making a cacophony, more commonly known as a racket.

There are a number of Ancient Pistol releases:

Madame Curie's Cabinet 2008
Bear Hill Phenomenon 2008
It's All Energy To Me 2008
White Sands Memories 2007
Three Pillars of Solar Fusion 2007
Tunguska 2006*

Artwork for CDs can be downloaded from the Ancient Pistol website.

Press

From The Noise (May, 2008):

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)

From Phosphorescence Magazine (Vol. 4, 2007):

"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.
*** (three stars)
"Worth a Listen"

From The Noise (November 2006):

The Three Pillars of Solar Fusion A Nuclear Soundscape
3-song CD

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 also had a review in their July 2007 issue, which is in their website archive.

*collaboration with the good folks at Zradio.

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