Having worked together in an experimental pop group, multi-instrumentalists Lefteris Volanis and Dimitris Pagidas cleared their minds to take a look 'Outside The Long Walls'.
YATM have their own musical views outside of the walls of conformity and we do like a post-rock, psych OST approach. And that's what we've got with these 11 tracks.
'Leaving London' (on a personal note, be warned, once you've left, there's no going back) is the most folky-pop of the set with it's Sunday morning soothing vibe. In fact, the whole album is like a laid-back Project Gemini ('Colours & Light' see review HERE) merged with the quieter less jazzy elements of 'Valia Calda ('Homeland' see review HERE).
That said, the combinationof the guitar, synths, xylophone, electronics with some vocals (Greek & English) are perfect in setting the post-ENO-Fripp ambient Balearics - particularly like the 'eastern' title track and the longest tracks, 'Goodbye To Purity' and 'Crystals'.
Following on from last month's Record Store Day 7", 'Melodia / Melancolia', these two are on it like an out-there on a 60/70s space prog-folk Parthenon mission centre take off OST.
PS. This months' Colour & Pitch Sessions starts with their track 'August' - see below.
Artist: Lefteris Volanis, Dimitris Pagidas
Title: Outside The Long Walls
Release date: 10th May, 2024
Label : Veego Records
Catalog Number : -
Format: Deluxe edition 12" vinyl (limited to 500 copies) / Digital / Bandcamp
Recorded in Epidaurus between March 2020 until September 2023
Mastered by Richard König
Vinyl Master by Ekelon
Cover photo by Eftichia Vlachou
Artwork by Giorgos Maraziotis
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