Kostis Kilymis: Mixing board, effects, Flower Electronics Jealous Heart, microphones, four-track cassette recorder, lloopp, samples, field recordings, anticipation
Recorded and mixed June 2011 – January 2012 in Thessaloniki, Milan and Oxford. ‘Tiny Vices’ was recorded live at Bios Cinematheque, Athens, June 2011.
Mastered by Jacques Beloeil
Co-published by Entr’acte and Organized Music from Thessaloniki
t20 / e147
cd edition
200 copies
more info and direct purchase here
two brand new releases on the organized music from thessaloniki label. First up a cd from the duo of Pascal Battus and Alfredo Costa Monteiro (whose first album, ductile, was co-released by a question of re_entry and organized music back in 2008), featuring the musicians in further explorations of the sound-making potential of paper surfaces. Some seriously dark tones and atmospheres brought up by the two from these unlikely sources, in this very accomplished disc, recorded during the duo’s residency in 2010 at Q-O2 in Brussels:
Pascal Battus, Alfredo Costa Monteiro | Fêlure
organized music from thessaloniki t18
cd edition, 200 copies
Pascal Battus: rotating surfaces
Alfredo Costa Monteiro: amplified paper
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then there’s ‘tape‘, a cassette release from Muura, the solo project of australian musician Matt Earle, better known as a member of Stasis Duo, xNoBBQx, and head of the breakdance the dawn label. As Muura, he tends to showcase his more avant-rock sensibilities, but that doesn’t stop him here from producing a headfuck of an anti-rock statement, a dense mass of oversaturated layers of drone and repetition. Scorching stuff.
Muura | Tape
organized music from thessaloniki t19
c46, 100 copies
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last friday at knot gallery in athens, unan (chris chondropoulos) and nikos kyriazopoulos celebrated the release of their split tape on organized music from thessaloniki/a question of re_entry. Though the bill for the night listed nikos and chris’ band xysm, the two of them didn’t miss the opportunity of an unrehearsed duo set. Featuring a percussion and synth blowout, the duo was not exactly aligned to the more pastoral contents of the tape but was nevertheless a thrill for artists and audience alike. Documents of the set are already online for your listening and viewing pleasure:
Nikos Kyriazopoulos & Chris Chondropoulos Live @ Knot Gallery by Nikos Kyriazopoulos
catalan electronics/turntable/guitar master ferran fages has a new album on ‘organized music from thessaloniki‘. This one doesn’t follow the dissonant and disjointed paths of his previous guitar albums, but rather brings together his careful control of resonance and feedback (as showcased in his recent work on ‘l’innomable’) in a striking suite of nocturnal six-string explorations.
ferran fages – for pau torres
organized music from thessaloniki t16
cd edition, 300 copies
direct purchase and more info here:
http://thesorg.noise-below.org/2/?p=563
athens-based artists unan (chris chondropoulos) and nikos kyriazopoulos, have a new split tape out on noise, a few decks below (this very website that is, the tape is actually co-produced by organized music from thessaloniki and a question of re_entry). The two sides contain each artist’s idiosyncratic take on the subject of bird-song. Unan offers a little musique concrete gem, built from the base up from re-purposed old vinyl, while Kyriazopoulos takes the quasi-mimetic path (though doesn’t limit himself to it) using his arsenal of analog electronics.
unan / nikos kyriazopoulos – mimus / skua
organized music from thessaloniki t17 / a question of re_entry q12
c43, 100 copies on pink cassette
direct purchase and more info, here:
http://thesorg.noise-below.org/2/?p=547
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to add insult to injury, they have decided to stage a release party of sorts this friday, in the shape of a double-bill concert at knot gallery, athens. Featuring kyriazopoulos, and local experimental band xysm, of which chris is a proud member, this gig will be a nice opportunity to catch up with some of athens’ more forward-looking experimentalists, and to warm up for what looks to be a busy and noisy weekend.
Xysm
Nikos Kyriazopoulos
Friday, February 24; 21:00
@ Knot Gallery, Athens
Michalakopoulou 206 & Pyrrou
5 eu
dimitra lazaridou-chatzigoga | stroke by stroke
organized music from thessaloniki #14
cd edition, 400 copies
http://thesorg.noise-below.org/2/?p=487
sister overdrive | honey
organized music from thessaloniki #15
c40 edition, 100 copies
http://thesorg.noise-below.org/2/?p=482
electronics musician Giannis Kotsonis presents an electroacoustic/noise suite under his ‘Sister Overdrive’ alias, while zither player Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga “graduates” from her duo with Ferran Fages, ‘ap’strophe’, to give us her uncompromising solo debut in the form of ‘Stroke by Stroke’.
digging deeper, Sister Overdrive’s ‘Honey’ is made out of electroacoustic and concrete sources, thickly processed through Kotsonis’ laptop to produce and unfold a most engaging sequence of events. On ‘Honey’, his work thrives on harsh textures and elemental qualities of sound, offering in the process a most immersive and rich abstract work.
‘Stroke by Stroke’ is not for the faint of heart either. Those expecting gentle plucking to emerge from her zither will be surprised, to say the least. Chatzigoga uses objects, preparations, e-bows and other tools to extract large and confronting soundscapes from her instrument, and here she lays down, track by track, different combinations of techniques, contrasted with each other in the context of the album while at the same time laying them against the ambient sounds of the city -which she sublty allows to slip through to the recording. What results is a poetic and suggestive work that serves as the best introduction yet to Chatzigoga’s soundworld.
word on the street is there is a new release on ‘organized music from thessaloniki’. Other than the rare appearance of two maverick musicians (handmade electronics wizz, Michael Johnsen and sound-stalker Pascal Battus) in an excellent set of on-the-spot music making, it is also significant in that this new release comes in a tape & digital edition. See, organized music will be doing a few cassette editions in the near future, but is also starting to make its catalog available for download through the bandcamp platform (click here to visit the ‘organized music from thessaloniki’ bandcamp page). So now there’s space both for format fetichism and for 21st century convenience. It’s a win-win thing
oh, and the music? Nothing short of amazing. Intuitive improvisations using a network of handmade electronics and a saw for Johnsen, and standalone guitar pick-ups for Battus, the results are at times alien, emotive, spellbinding and unpredictable
Michael Johnsen, Pascal Battus – Bitche Session
organized music from thessaloniki t13
cassette edition, 135 pro-dubbed copies
Michael Johnsen: electronics, saw
Pascal Battus: magnetic pick-ups
click here to read about this on the label’s site
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organized music from thessaloniki t12
7″ edition
300 copies
there is a new release out on organized music from thessaloniki, though it’s a little bit different than what you’d initially expect.
this one comes in vinyl first of all, a gorgeous little 7″ ep with 9 songs. Now i said songs, and usually you’d expect long stretches of electroacoustics from this label, but on this release the focus is on a brilliant greek songwriter, Angelos kyriou. Well known in the small-scale-gig circle of athens for the past few years (as well as through his blog, from where he usually shares his music) for his idiosyncratic short tunes, quirky lyrics, and unique in-your-face effect of what he does, he has nevertheless refused to play himself up and emerge as some sort of faux-underground indie-king and it’s only now that his music begins to appear on ‘traditional’ fixed media, though we’ve had him in our mp3 players for some time now. Having had his music and his uncanny observations wash through our daily lives for some time now, we’ve decided to share some of it with you. It’s a personal trip, but few remain unmoved.
epelxi contains an eclectic cut out of Angelos’ songbook. Everything you need to know about it, and everything it takes to make it yours, is here: http://thesorg.noise-below.org/2/?p=392
If you need a better description of his work (and you’re fluent in greek), you won’t find a better one than in the piece m.hulot (eminent greek blogger and occasional dabbler in the overground press) wrote about the artist and the record in this post on his blog.
to our greek readers: the 7″ is available locally (as is almost every other thes.org release) through good indie record stores in thessaloniki (lotus, wax records) and athens (vinyl microstore, a strange attractor)
angelos’ blog can be found here: http://angeloskyriou.blogspot.com/
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incidentally, angelos & fellow traveller ‘κτίρια τη νύχτα’ (buildings at night) are playing live at knot gallery in athens tomorrow
human perception. 4 studies on the experience of self, space, surroundings. featuring a variety of concrete and synthesized sound
a new album by kostis kilymis [thessaloniki 1963, .accumulated, just another daily bummer]
cd edition, on organized music from thessaloniki. available now
http://thesorg.noise-below.org/2/?p=288
cd preview:
‘temporary perspectives’ by syndromesuploadcloud
Angharad Davies: violin
Rhodri Davies: electric harp
Nikos Veliotis: cello
organized music from thessaloniki #9 / absurd #82
research center for the definition of happiness (istanbul branch)
the new album by this greek-welsh trio is now available, just 11 years after their debut ‘All Angels’ on Costis Drygianakis’ EDO label. An expansive piece for bowed and e-bowed tones, pulsating drones in an unbroken (?) continuum.
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available now, through organized music from thessaloniki & absurd
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http://www.rhodridavies.com/
http://www.angharaddavies.com/
http://www.nikosveliotis.com/
our mailing lists are down
having less time to dedicate on the site these past few months, i only recently realised that the database behind our mailing lists has ceased to function. This means that both the ‘absurd’ and the ‘organized music from thessaloniki’ labels’ mailing lists are not in operation. I have tried in vain to fix this problem, but at the moment i cannot even salvage the subscribers’ email addresses. Which means that those people who will not read this entry, might have to wait a long time befor they receive anything new from those lists. My apologies for this.
For the time being, you are encouraged to subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed as an alternative. It will contain any info that would have apeared in those lists, as well as other news from related labels and artists. Or just keep an eye on our pages, the old-fashioned way.
Even though i myself still favor mailing lists and their succinct notifications, maybe this will prove to be a way forward since more and more people today seem to depend on automatic notifications. I’m afraid we don’t have another choice for now
a brand new release on organized music from thessaloniki
SLW – Fifteen point nine grams
this is the second album from the international quartet of Burkhard Beins, Lucio Capece, Rhodri Davies & Toshimaru Nakamura; it is a particularly engrossing listen, recorded live and presented here for your aural pleasure. SLW, the name of the group, stands for ‘Sounds Like Water’ and it’s an analogy that describes pretty well the flow and the sheer presence of this music. Beyond boundaries, listen loud and often.
CD edition, sleeve design by QQ
ΤΟ ΠΕΡΙΟΔΙΚΟ: και τα 9 τεύχη σε ψηφιακή μορφή
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