Label: Creel Pone

1959年より存在するギリシャの最初期レコード会社Music-Boxが87年に出版した2枚の実験音楽V.A [Polyagogy]& [Keyboard Music]。その2枚をカップリングしたCreel Poneの2CD-R版。Iannis Xenakis、Dimitris Kamarotos、Charis Xanthoudakisらの完全シリアスなコンピュータ・ミュージック、テープ作品を纏めた[Polyagogy]、それとは趣きの異なる、ダークアンビエント、ミニマル、ニューエイジ路線の音楽家を集めた[Keyboard Music]、ギリシャ地下界の様々な部分が確認出来ます。



Handy, double-pack reproduction offering a pair of Compilations on the Greek Music Box label, the first comprised of key Magnetic Tape & Spectral Computer Music pieces by Iannis Xenakis, Dimitris Kamarotos, Xaris Xanthoudakis, & Vasilis Riziotis, the latter of, essentially, Dark Ambient & assorted "Wave" & "Age" fare by Vangelis Katsoulis, Lena Platonos, "Antitheseis" alum Michael Grigoriou, & Minas Alexiades, each on its own disc inside a "Gatefold" booklet.

Released pretty much back-to-back - consecutive catalogue numbers and all - these two provide a clear picture of the state of Electronic Music in Greece in those early, just-post-EU days, and whereas the former disc's tone tends towards the academic & the latter the aesthetic, the bleed between the timbral & formal palettes used throughout is palpable.

This, along with the recent Sfetsas & Rotas sets, and the classic "Greek Electronic Music-1" & "Works of Electronic Music" reassesses the majority of the island's formative work; a fascinating survey of Hellenic topologies & a great bridge into the more unknown factions of 80s Greek Experimental Music.