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ETERNAL RECURRENCE

by Constantine Skourlis

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Collapse 08:00
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Reality Cancelled 06:47
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Atonement 04:36
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4.
Reckoning 01:55 video
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Destroy False Idols 05:34
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Elegy 03:41
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Lethe 02:54
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8.
Ascension 06:42
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Constantine Skourlis chases Hades with another album of immersive, oppressive tracks: a fitting corollary to our current climate. While listening to Eternal Recurrence, one can sense the cumulative weight of anger, depression, denial and finger-pointing, wrapped in a blanket of illness. This music is born in an atmosphere of struggle, whether for rights or for health, and points the way to possible Schrödinger outcomes: disaster or triumph.

Multiple contributions are required to make music this thick. In addition to electronics, halldorophone and cello, guests contribute percussion, bass clarinet and soprano voice ~ a high note that cuts through the low. Serapheim Giannacopoulos (Planet of Zeus) lends the project a heavy metal feel. Occasionally all the music breaks down, as in the beginning of “Reality Cancelled” (now there’s a 2020 title!) when a piano is able to get a word in edgewise, as if to say, hold on, there’s still hope. When the darkness encroaches in a mangled cloud of drone, one remembers there was a melody, once upon a time.

While a sociopolitical tone runs through the titles, a religious tinge does as well: “Destroy False Idols,” “Atonement,” “Ascension.” The thread of Greek mythology, apparent in Hades, continues in “Lethe.” We are living amidst grand schemes, crossing religious lines: battles for the right to define reality itself, as if our world leaders were vying for possession of the red stone. In “Reckoning,” an electronic rustle imitates a steam engine: we may move forward or back, but we must move.

On this immersive follow-up to Hades, Constantine Skourlis tackles the polarization of society, the disintegration of truth-telling and the climate of denial: heady subjects that deserve the dramatic treatment. Without voice (save for a wordless soprano), the set carries the weight of the world on its shoulders, a sonic Atlas. The combination of organic and electronic instrumentation lends the production a regal quality, like the changing of kings.

-Richard Allen

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released November 20, 2020

All music written, produced and performed by CONSTANTINE SKOURLIS at various locations in Greece, during 2017 and 2020.

mastered by MATT COLTON at METROPOLIS

halldorophone, cello KONSTANTINOS CHINIS
percussion, unheard sounds SERAFEIM GIANNAKOPOULOS
soprano MAIRA MILOLIDAKI
clarinet, bass clarinet KOSTAS TZEKOS
recording, mixing CONSTANTINE SKOURLIS
assisting engineers MICHALIS MOSCHOUTIS, NICHOLAS KAZAZIS
additional recording by NIKOS LAVDAS
additional production and sound design by SPR
additional mixing on 'Elegy' by NICHOLAS KAZAZIS
additional arrangements by CHRISTOS SAKELLARIDIS
executive producer IAKOVOS GURULIAN
artistic direction SALEM RASHID SKOURLIS
all tracks published by BEDOUIN RECORDS
design by TAKASHI MAKABE
artwork “Prison Faces” by VANGELIS RINAS
photographs by MYRTO GRIGORIOU

© 2019 Constantine Skourlis
© 2019 Bedouin Records

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Constantine Skourlis Athens, Greece

Constantine Skourlis is a composer, sound artist and producer from Athens, Greece. Using an array of guitars, amplifiers, orchestral instruments, synthesizers, old tube radios and field recordings he blurs the boundaries of genres and draws inspiration from a wide range of musical influences.His work is known for its intense emotional power and haunting themes. ... more

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