{"product_id":"π-διονύσιος-ταμπάκης-father-dionysios-tabakis-paradise-metal-lp-orange-vinyl-copy","title":"Aeson Zervas - τρία (3) LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eContinuing the saga that began with 2024's self-titled LP, a hazy deconstruction of Greek folk memories that acted as a prelude to the surreal Egyptian street rave experiment 'Hazlom', 'τρία' is enigmatic composer Aeson Zervas' most confounding set to date. He takes the opportunity to darken his shadowy autobiography; so far, all that's been revealed is that he's reclusive, based in Missolonghi in western Greece and can trace his ancestry back to North Africa - details get murky when examined further. On 'τρία', the contrast is intensified and the grain increased as Zervas stalks furtively through a moonlit fictionalized Mediterranean, rupturing his collection of gritty folk samples - remnants of rebetiko and ailing film soundtracks - with anachronistic drum machine loops and errant analog oscillations. If his debut was a hauntological artifact that addressed Europe's historical obsession with Greek culture, smearing tangible Hellenic soundscapes until they loosely fell into line with The Caretaker's reverberating flashbacks, Zervas' third chapter manufactures an unsettling fiction that hallucinates a parallel timeline. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe album follows a thread from the tekedes, semi-legal social clubs where workers, refugees, gangsters and pimps would gather to smoke hash and jam on bouzouki, through the tavernas\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e and back streets of Greece and Anatolia where early synth music melt into the memories, shuttling the chanted choruses and santur chimes into back room dancefloors and sweaty beachside raves. Whether any of this did or didn't happen is beside the point; Zervas' cultural references stretch out through ancient Rome and the Ottoman Empire, affirming an identity that's more real than reality itself. It's not made from fragments of commercialized, Eurocentric Greek history, but the dreams of half-remembered histories of the various different peoples who have moved through the Balkans and Anatolia for centuries. Tonally warped piano stabs and West Asian vocal forms breeze across squashed, decelerated kicks and bleeps on 'Χωρίς τίτλο 20', while Zervas fashions a fantasy ecosystem on 'Χωρίς τίτλο 22', using evocative environmental recordings and chiming exotica organs to imagine a marooned island far from the Caribbean. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBusted beatbox rotations and detuned basslines follow lyra melodies and fragile vocals 'Χωρίς τίτλο 25' and when 'τρία' navigates towards its final stretch, hiccuping rhythms, blown-out acid squelches and slow, booming pulses shepherd the ornate traditional notes to their illogical conclusion. It's an album of divergences and contradictions that asks more questions than it answers, breaking apart the bright, white marble sculptures that lie behind glass in European museums and repainting the fragments in eldritch colors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/heatcrimes.bandcamp.com\/album\/-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehttps:\/\/heatcrimes.bandcamp.com\/album\/-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heat Crimes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57450955964791,"sku":null,"price":29.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0337\/6689\/9845\/files\/Bossman_53b0fb38-14bc-4cae-b697-6497dd5fa544.jpg?v=1789127334","url":"https:\/\/www.cryptofthewizard.com\/products\/%cf%80-%ce%b4%ce%b9%ce%bf%ce%bd%cf%8d%cf%83%ce%b9%ce%bf%cf%82-%cf%84%ce%b1%ce%bc%cf%80%ce%ac%ce%ba%ce%b7%cf%82-father-dionysios-tabakis-paradise-metal-lp-orange-vinyl-copy","provider":"Crypt of the Wizard","version":"1.0","type":"link"}