From Spyros…
Yorgos and I met in Athens in 2016, during the Deteriorate Sound Festival — a short-lived but potent attempt to bridge the experimental and improvised scenes of Berlin and Athens. Yorgos had already been living in Berlin for a decade by then, and I was based in London at the time. We didn’t perform together, but hearing each other’s solo sets planted a quiet seed. The idea of a collaboration lingered — slowly fermenting in the background as our paths continued to evolve independently.

Almost ten years later, we finally found ourselves in the same room, in front of microphones and speakers, with no particular plan — only an unspoken sense of shared listening. What followed was a series of focused, near-ritual sessions. We weren’t trying to build something grand or expansive. If anything, we were peeling layers away — trying to listen more closely, to stay with the material, to inhabit a space together. It felt like we were carving sound from within a room rather than composing it. Not “adding”, but revealing what was already there.

After those sessions, I spent much of the winter traveling, carrying the recordings with me — on airports, in quiet rooms, across different cities. Most of the compositional work happened there…  more

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releases September 25, 2025

Recordings: Yorgos Dimitriadis (percussion/electronics) & Spyros Polychronopoulos (electronics)
Composition: Spyros Polychronopoulos
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Photography: Lawrence English

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