*50 copies limited edition* Greek composer Savvas Metaxas is based in Thessaloniki, Greece. His music revolves around field recordings, experimentation and minimalism. As a prolific musician and sound artist, his music has been released by Superpang, Glistening Examples, LINE, Falt and Flaming Pines among others. He works to defend experimental music through his active participation in the Granny Records and Dasa Tapes labels. Field recordings, seen as a tool, are both the collection of samples of reality and the focus of shared simulacra. For the listener, the recording resonates like a time capsule and can conjure up certain memories while projecting them into a space far removed from our own time and place. The sounds of bells, birds, radio, flutes and rain that can be heard on the album are arranged in a multitude of reflections: ghostly echoes of a past life, phantasmal images that slip away.

For folk tales and the rain, Savvas Metaxas uses the guitar and its effects as if they were samples. A great importance is attached to the place of the stringed instrument in the spectrum. On the A side, it arrives in a very cinematographic way, an element of the decor that reveals itself, inviting the soundtracks of Wenders, Herzog and Lynch. Then, the artist combines saturation and reverb while stifling the attack on the strings at the start of side B. The result is a pungent texture that traces heavy furrows through the heart of the piece.

Recorded in a mountain village in north-west Greece, Savvas Metaxas's composition acts as an essay in microhistory. By transcribing a scene that seems familiar to us, the music reveals aspects of the world that surrounds it. Folk tales and the rain is strewn with minute clues, both hidden in the enclave of a dry valley floor and resonating with our memory.