Costis Drygianakis sent us his thoughts on the brand new Cranc album, copper fields. And in turn we thought we’d make a big deal out of it, seeing that Costis was the man who chose, back in the year 2000, to release the trio’s first album (All Angels) on his own ΕΔΩ (EDO) label.
It’s been a whole decade since the first release of the Cranc trio (All angels, ΕΔΩ 2000). Today, it’s clear that that first album marked the end of a phase. Since 2001, all three musicians (Rhodri and Angharad Davis from Wales, UK and Nikos Veliotis from Greece) have abandoned the twelve-tone jargon and the instrumental musique concrete and dedicated themselves, with an impressive self-discipline, to the research of slow, long, droning sounds. After a decade of independent, personal orbits and casual meetings, here they join their forces once again, more mature and more essential than ever. And they succeed to catch exactly what is missing in the vast majority of projects of this kind: They manage to keep the interest at a top level from the first till the last minutes of the album, neither hanging around nor sinking to any minimalist coma. Cause, as it gets finally obvious, it’s of great importance that these long and sustained sounds raise not from automatic generators, but from strings pulsating under human fingers. Needless to say, under great human fingers.
~ costis drygianakis
copper fields is available from organized music from thessaloniki, as well as absurd
