Album Review: Manolis Aggelakis - The Stone we had in our Mouth (2020)
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| Picture Credit: Manolis Aggelakis Artwork: John "Sugahtank" Roumpanis |
Manolis Aggelakis - The Stone we had in our Mouth
Release: February 17, 2020
Label: Same Difference Music/Inner Ear Reacords
Format: Vinyl/Digital
Length: 40:30
Genre: Experimental / Avantgarde / Noise / Krautrock
Origin: Athens, Greece
Manolis Aggelakis (or Μανώλης Αγγελάκης in Greek letters) is the Blues Man from Greek capital Athens. Aggelakis played with Illegal Operation and Appalachian Cobra Worshipers, and released several solo albums. His 2020 work "The Stone we had in our Mouth" is his first instrumental and experimental project in which he musicked the atmosphere of poems by Tassos Leivaditis.
As you might derive from the description this is artsy, experimental and avantgarde music. Aggelakis creates imposant soundscapes from Krautrock and Noise and has them draw expressionist pictures full of colour, dynamics and meditative layers.
Even if you don't know the works by Leivaditis, the soundscapes make you dive into a deep, dream-like mood. Manolis Aggelakis builds up plenty of different layers of sound with guitars and synthesizers. Dark and fascinating landscapes of unknown spheres open up in front of you, once you enter the soundscapes.
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| Picture Credit: N. Carellos |
Interesting is how Aggelakis managed to add the Krautrock atmosphere to his noisy, avantgarde, and experimental project. Thus, I might describe the sound to be somewhere between Edward Ka-Spel & Motion Kapture and New Sounds of Soma.
Dive into this fantastic, dark but colourful world, Manolis Aggelakis has created for ears and mind.
Manolis Aggelakis Online:
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