remember the bye-bye butterfly fest in Xanthi last december? if you recall, there were some ups and downs in the end regarding the line-up, largely due to the large disruption of flights over europe during those days. well, one thing this led to was a last minute pairing for the last slot of the night, which brought Leif Elggren -who had only brought his voice and his presence to the festival, together with local electronics manipulator Kostis Kilymis (aka: syndromes) for a one-off set that lasted a brief 14 minutes, but was such a blast that no one really asked for more.
well, seeing that the particular set signalled the last actual sounds to come out of the legendary absurd carcass, and seeing of course that the music was so good, a triple handshake took place the very next day agreeing to press the whole thing on some trusty old vinyl. Leif’s firework edition records and Nicolas Malevitsis’ excrete music decided to do the honours, Kostis did some micro-editing to remove unwanted detrius, Giuseppe Ielasi took up the mastering and a half a year after the day, here it is:
IF OTHER PEOPLE EXIST then they are totally sealed secrets
KOSTIS KILYMIS LEIF ELGGREN
1-sided 12″
edition of 200
Kostis Kilymis – electronics, objects
Leif Elggren – voice, text and dance
“I now feel – when listening to the recording – like we opened a dark negative window in that respectful old event hall, for the 14 minutes we played. Like corpses and spirits marching through, only to be sucked back at the press of a pause button.” Kostis Kilymis
Recorded live at ‘spiti politismou – f.e.x.’ on december the 4th 2010 during absurd’s farewell edition (absurd #84) ‘bye bye butterfly’
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Thanks to Nicolas Malevitsis
www.syndromesrandomcontent.blogspot.com
www.leifelggren.org
www.fireworkeditionrecords.se
excrete music copies to be available through distributors worldwide
(metamkine, rrr, a-musik, tochnit aleph…)
firework edition records to be available through firework edition records and its distributors
