"The only things Duane Pitre wants to overcome on Feel Free are his own ingrained work habits and the mandates of his material ... the music proceeds without conflict into a three-dimensional fractal framework of curved contours and bright, pulsating nodes. Remaining poised and infinitely deep throughout, it's gorgeous stuff."
- The Wire / Bill Meyer on Feel Free (CD/LP)

"Duane's been on something of a roll w/ his last few releases ... and this just raises the bar with an impeccably recorded set of raga-centric music, perfect for zoning out mid-afternoon while life just buzzes by ... highly recommended !!!"
- Mimaroglu Music Sales / Keith Fullerton Whitman on Origin (CD/LP) - full review

"... like a slow sunrise over India ... strings cascading over one another like warm honey ... immense waves of warm, majestic harmonics completely engulf you ... into the sky to follow the sun on it's descent to the horizon ... Pitre has truly excelled here ... create[d] something completely unique and totally his own ... incredibly remarkable work"
- Cyclic Defrost / Nick Giles on Origin (CD/LP) - full review

"... strange overtones, rhythmic variations, strange melodies and mysterious textures, are utterly divine ... quite reminiscent of folks like Phill Niblock, Angus MacLise, Tony Conrad, Henry Flynt, but with its own particular magic, the very Eastern sounding raga vibe is undeniable on some of the tracks, but others are far more abstract ... creating a gorgeous expanse of warm ... choral, almost liturgical ...an orchestra tuning up stretched into swirling near static drones ... dense, and dark, but somehow lush and lovely..."
- Aquarius Records on Origin (CD/LP) - full review

"ED09 follows in the footsteps of such long-form composers as Morton Feldman and Phil Niblock ... the textural music of Ligeti and Xenakis ... This is drone music of rare depth and power, rich with crescendos and bucolic calm."
- Cyclic Defrost / Joshua Meggitt on ED09: Live at Roulette (CD) - full review

"the two side-length pieces hereon offer beautifully recorded aggregates of large-group tonal stasis, on par with the best of 'classic minimalism' (jon gibson comes to mind, as does some of charlemagne palestine's organ work)."
- Mimaroglu Music Sales / Keith Fullerton Whitman on Organized Pitches Occurring in Time (CD/LP)

"Pitre as a composer is interested in microtonality ... In this forty minute live recording this works absolutely beautiful. Sounds swell, sustain, go away and everything flows into each other in what seems to be a natural way ... An excellent work."
- Vital Weekly / Frans de Waard on ED09: Live at Roulette (CD) - full review

"Joy for me can be summarized by the existence of things like the new Duane Pitre LP ... [an] album that will be on my turntable for days to come, and whose sleeve will never leave the side of my speakers for months...Beautiful, stark, highly effective, and austerely compelling ... genuinely brilliant release. (10 out of 10)"
- Foxy Digitalis / John Cramer on Organized Pitches Occurring in Time (CD/LP) - full review

"... splendidly conceived and executed material ... so gorgeously entrancing ... catapults Pitre just a split hair below the upper echelon of contemporary minimalism."
- Touching Extremes / Massimo Ricci on Organized Pitches Occurring in Time (CD/LP)

"... layers of instrument sounds restlessly shift and overlap, and it's this aspect that, on purely listening grounds, proves [ED09] most captivating. When ED09 begins its descent at about the thirty-nine-minute mark and then fades into silence, one is left feeling, strangely enough, that it's over too soon ... an engrossing listening experience."
Textura.org on ED09: Live at Roulette (CD) - full review