Manolis Samaras
The Alchemist

This new tape from Manolis Samaras finds him tackling a different mode of communication. The two pieces on track one are glitched and loopy, while the other two are near-freeform sloganeering with shoegaze intros and outros. There’s enough variation in the sounds to make any individual’s brain dance. Samaras has said before that he prefers to use electronics to communicate, and this new tape is no different. The interplay between the instruments is subtle, recorded with a beep and a loop like the recording is on a tape loop before the voices, and then played back. The voices are as close to natural as it gets, and the glitching is minimal and minimal. It sounds like someone playing a keyboard in real time.

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