★Thalamos
Reference Path
Dueling four-tracker rough music from Matteo Castro (Second Sleep label, Mercury Hall, Lettera 22) and Giovanni Donadini (Ottaven, Canedicoda). Tape loops, field recordings, dub echoes, damaged beats and downgraded tempos creating two short, minimal and slithering compositions.
The Honey Dodger
Australian artist/author/designer/musician Matthew Revert weaves something of a hazy opera, leaving crumbs of hypnosis, rap mixtapes, portastudio songwriters, and the overall feeling of waking up several times throughout the course of a night with the television on. Commissioned by Transmedia Borders / British Council in Mexico This work was released by Athens based label Thalamos in 2019
A Method To Its Messiness
During my one month travel in Europe and UK in June 2017, I recorded snapshots of radio programs as a daily practice. Starting from Brussels to Kassel, Toulouse, Amsterdam, Brussels again, then London, Berlin, and Bordeaux... In any city I was in, I would just turn on the radio and randomly capture news, talk radio, music, or, if between frequencies, just noise. I used a compact AM/FM analogue radio, as opposed to a shortwave or Internet radio. Therefore I could focus on local programs, althoug…
Electrocardiograph Of A Cathode Ray Tube
"Electrocardiograph of a Cathode Ray Tube is an audiovisual project which applies a bio-medical sensing technology to an obsolete media apparatus. For decades CRT televisions mediated our perception of the world beyond our direct experience, our imaginations modulated by their machine rhythms. This performance uses brainwave / heart-rate monitors to pick up the electromagnetic resonances of the CRT screen and render them audible. The television is transformed from object to subject." Stephen Co…
Lepidópteros
Angélica Castelló (Mexico City 1972) is a recorder player, composer, improviser, sound artist, curator, teacher living in Vienna. She plays mainly the “Paetzold” which is a sub great bass recorder, along tapes and electronics. As a composer, she writes music for her own instruments and for ensembles as well. The last few years she has done various installations which combines music, performance & visual arts. Even though her source of inspiration, such as literature or visual arts, often have sp…
To The Scaffold
To The Scaffold is the new solo material from Clay Kolbinger (Math Balance Volumes, Private Anarchy) under his Termite Acropolis moniker. Decaying tape music is spread across the 6 pieces of this tape, completing a foggy wilderness.
Empire / Flat Rock
Dark and gloomy string arrangements by Michigan’s Michael Collino (Dog Lady Island, Alien Passengers) on both sides, concluding to an intentional dragged out silence on side B to complete those sounds of loss. “Funeral Zither” at its best.
Misopedia
Misopedia is Allen Mozek’s (Good Area, No Intention, Vitrine ) first release under his own name. Side A consists of Anatomy of Nothing, while Earthbound Editions constitutes the B side. Misopedia is a recreation and a document on tape of the strong feelings Mozek has as a listener. Listening as a form of participating. Recorded in 2016 & Mastered by Sean McCann"Between walls is where all the furniture is and the books and the people" -Hannah Weiner "When a duck is not a duck" -Ethan Stowe
Phlegma
In November 2016 while working on new material, Kostas Kefalianos recorded several ideas on tape between Kos & Athens. Almost a month later, all this recorded material had been rearranged and mixed by Panos Alexiadis who filtered and captured some of the best moments included in those tapes and eventually ended up in Phlegma, the second release from Kefalianos on Thalamos.
Terraen
Sandra Boss is a composer and sound artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark & a member of the artist collective Vontrapp. Her new album “TERRÆN”, is a collection of two sound pieces that explore the malfunctioning lo-fi material of obsolete tapes & antique tone generators, mixed together with the popular analog polysynth Juno 106 & the playfulness of the Chimera mini synthesizer. Low, naive melodies appear alongside a more portentous & opaque atmosphere over a barren land.
Abstinence
“Abstinence” is the debut release of
visual collagist / sound explorer Kostas Kefalianos. It features a
selection of private tracks, recorded directly on tape between
2013-2014. Pro dubbed cassettes ltd to 100 copies.
Promnesia
"Promnesia" is a collection of four pieces, divided into pairs and composed between mid 2014 & late 2015. On these recordings, Alexiadis is using mainly electronics to create unearthly tonal worlds, absorbing the listener into the nebulous environment of his detailed, semi- abstract sonic structures. Panos Alexiadis (b. 1984) from Athens, Greece. He has studied the classical piano and sound engineering. Afterwards, he started research on sound, experimenting with software synthesis, electric gui…
Orphne
“Orphne” (Όρφνη) consists of two electro-acoustic pieces, equal in the procedure of synthesis, using a pallet of processed voices and saxophone along with modular synthesizer and cymbals. Panos Alexiadis (b. 1984) from Athens, Greece. He has studied the classical piano and sound engineering. Afterwards, he started research on sound, experimenting with software synthesis, electric guitar, piano and even toy instruments.
Springer
Sonorous found objects, self made instruments & natural feedback are the sound elements & the anatomy of this recording. All sounds have been performed live by Giorgos Axiotis & Efthimis Theodossis, no overdubs or any kind of mechanical equipment, except for a mixing desk & two directional microphones.
Dissension
Digging inside yourself, requires a huge stash of patience & persistence to overcome every obstacle found. You have to dig down, deep enough, to discover something that will make you dig deeper & deeper. After listening to Francisco Merino’s “Dissension” you will appreciate the fact that you came out alive after all & this is certainly a good start, isn’t it?
Rotating Surfaces
After his stunning “The Shape of Failures Past” release (Granny records 2013), Yannis Kotsonis (Sister Overdrive, Acte Vide, Knot Gallery) returns with “Rotating Surfaces”. Kotsonis is now introducing us to a less known sonic side of him. He is leaving behind the electronic elements, to compose two untitled pieces with collected sounds of… rotating surfaces. Side A contains also processed samples from a duo improvisation with Andrew Raffo Dewar on saxophone, which took place at the Virgin Mary o…
Ya Gotta Get Really Crazy
Part of the underground collective Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS), the American iconic weirdos SMEGMA were formed in Pasadena, California in 1973 to reinvent improvisation with a DIY etchic, against the boring, conventional commercial-rock of the time. This release gives the holder the opportunity to capture the development of their own “primitive suburban folk” approach and traditions of their existence. First side of this tape is featuring drunken chaos at a Party, then an inner mind S…
Calls
Calls presents 11 improvised pieces recorded on a reel-to-reel machine throughout 2015 and 2016. Employing a mixed bag of source material and a half drafted vocal approach, these 11 tracks explore the notion of ‘contact calls’,which are irregular, non–specific sounds many social animals make to maintain contact within a group. The group in this instance includes more than just other members; an expanded cast of objects, figures, nature, and works of art act as the recipients of these calls. Ther…