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Picture Credit: Thomas Meleteas Artwork: Marily Papanastasatou Thomas Meleteas - Shapeshifting Wizards Release Date: February 05, 2021 Label: Polyscope Format: Digital Length: 30:36 Genre: Folk / Jazz Origin: Athens , Greece "Shapeshifting Wizards" is the second full-length release by Athens' multiinstrumentalist Thomas Meleteas . The title track was recently featured in the Discoveries of the Week . Thomas Meleteas  presents six tracks of instrumental music that can be categorized under Mediterranean Folk. He musicks thoughtful and soulful narratives that have their origin in the Eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, especially Greek and Turkish Folk can be spotted in his songs. The multitalented musician plays all the instruments of which the oud is the most dominant one. Swift fingerplay on the string instrument create stunning atmospheres of wanderlust and desire. Picture Credit: Thomas Meleteas And after all, there is a undeniable impact of Jazz in the six composit...

Picture Credit: Ramdat Artwork: Konstantina Dimoula Ramdat - FrimFall Release Date: January 22, 2021 Label: Polyscope Format: Digital Length: 37:37 Genre: Free Jazz / Noise / Experimental Origin: Athens , Greece Are you ready for another freakshow release full of improvised Jazz, experimental Noise? Then, here's Ramdat for you! The quartet was formed half a decade ago. Actually, by that time Ramdat was stil a trio. Since 2017 the Free Jazz combo has four members. Shortly before the first lockdown in Europe, Ramdat played a concert in the Swedish capital Stockholm which was recorded. But the quartet did not stand on stage all by themselves since at this event, there were five musicians. As a guest, bass player Gustaf Hielm  accompanied them. "FrimFall" is a release that invites us to an expressive dance across the line between genius and madness. Hielm  and Ramdat provide us with eclectic improvisations and meticulous shenanigans. On stage they make classic Jazz spiral a...

Picture Credit: Polyscope It is time for the first MangoSpecial ! Some weeks ago I had an amazing chat with Pantelis  and Giorgos , founders of Polyscope. Without further ado, let's jump right into it. I am thus presenting the work of this great community to you. Polyscope is a music community initiated by Giorgos and Pantelis with base in Greek capital Athens in the year 2018. They started collaborating with artists from Athens and other parts of Greece. Since then the community has expanded to plenty of other places, such as The Hague and Groningen in the Netherlands , or London and Leeds in the UK. Polyscope has connected to the people via making music with them or by co-releasing their records. The way the community is working and growing can thus be regarded as a process-oriented and social way. Polyscope is a community and they explicitly do not consider themselves as a label. One basic reason is the fact that there are tons of independent records labels around. Li...

Photo Credit: Quaich Artwork: Taisuke Koyama and Takashi Kawashima Quaich - and now that we are here Release: May 29, 2020 Label: Polyscope Format: CD / Digital Length: 26:24 Genre: Experimental / Noise / Alternative Origin: Athens , Greece / The Hague , Netherlands The cover artwork by Taisuke Koyama  and Takashi Kawashima  gives the first hints that Quaich are presenting a both artistic and minimalistic approach to contemporary Rock music here. Their first album "and now that we are here" can be seen as some kind of status report. The three band members James McEwan  (guitar, vocals), Alex Andropulos  (drums) and Giannis Moschos  (bass, vocals, radio) collected ways to describe their current situation in this crazy world we live in. But this is not a cry for help. It is an honest summary of what is going on that creates a safe space where you can breathe freely. Minimalist patterns of Noise, Shoegaze and Independent Rock float back and forth between on- an...