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Apolithoma

by Veslemes

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Double 140g vinyl housed in a striking red-green colour 5mm-spined reverse board sleeve

    Includes unlimited streaming of Apolithoma via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Special limited time offer of the 2x12" plus "crystal crocodile" print. Artwork fits into any standard record sleeve frame (as pictured).

    Print is on heavyweight (250gsm) uncoated paper which is then matt laminated so has a very tactile texture.

    Limited to 20 prints, each hand-numbered and initialled.

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    The back story with this print lies in the original concept of the Apolithoma album. As fans of Veslemes will know, Apolithoma (meaning "fossil") is a concept album inspired by two works of JG Ballard; The Drowned World and The Crystal World. In the latter the scientists come across a crocodile at the river bank that is partially crystallised. And so the seed was sown and this "crystal crocodile" came into being in the album art. But how to create this look of crystals? The artist decided this might be an impossible task so opted for a more abstract approach: each of the crocodile's scales would be represented by it's own layer in which would be a court gradient (two or more colours fading from one to the other) giving the idea of refracted light (as seen through a prism). Including the crocodile's teeth, toes, scales, etc, the design amounted to over 700 separate layers in the end...a monumental design that strained the software's ability to stay stable. Ultimately, to match the sleeve's two colour aesthetic the crocodile was also reduced to a two-colour design, the multi-colour gradients replaced with gradients fading from red to green instead. However, due to some feedback on social media it's been decided to revive the crocodile on its original colour form and give it life of its own (in your living room) in the form of this print. It can now be appreciated more widely.

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    2x12" vinyl + hand screen-printed t-shirt.

    Magenta print on white, yellow or pink tee. Men's and ladies sizes available

    Ethically sourced "Earth Positive" organic cotton shirt.

    Vinyl & tee come with download code for the album

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Port Mattare 05:16
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Magdalene 08:17
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Apolithoma 11:41
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Crystalize 03:08

about

Veslemes (aka Felizol) makes his debut on Invisible Inc with this astonishing new album that comes hot on the heels of last year's ground-shaking "I Know Where You Live Vangelis!".

With "Apolithoma" Yannis Veslemes takes us further into the dark crevices of his psyche.

The album's themes are inspired by the dystopian sci-fi of JG Ballard's "The Drowned World" and "The Crystal World": both novels eerily prophetic in their dystopian visions of an irradiated Earth over which a bloated, blinding sun makes living as we know it bearable only within a few hours around dawn and dusk. Sea levels have risen and cities that are not wholly flooded are overgrown with emergent new flora adapting to this new and hostile environment.

In more remote locations, overgrown jungles and forests are exhibiting signs of a strange crystallisation: entire swathes of jungle petrified, calcified, crystalized, fauna included...and stories of missing explorers rumoured to themselves have crystalized!

An allegory for our times, for sure....but more importantly, the album is as adventurous musically as it is conceptually. Where on the surface we have stories themed around an external dystopian world, the music, like the rising floodwater, presents us with a lens through which to look at the internal world: on one hand a distorted prism into what lurks beneath, yet at the same time a perfect reflection - a mirror into the psyche.

At times dark, at times playful, unreservedly psychedelic, the album's wildly different musical styles all capture an atmosphere that is as profound and mystical as it is unique.

Featuring an assortment of guest musicians on saxophone, clarinet, vibraphones, oboe, guitars and other instruments not often heard in partnership with electronic music, the resulting collection of songs is up there with the best of Invisible Inc.

Disc One
A1 The Carnivorous Bar 08:07
A2 Beatrice Dahl's Jungle Fever 04:32
B1 Diamond Crocodile Tears 03:46
B2 Port Mattare 05:16

Disc Two
C1 Morning Patrol 05:10
C2 Magdalene 08:17
D1 Apolithoma 11:41
D2 Crystalize 03:08

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"Old J.G. drilled a hole in his forehead

Willy told him to

Now he can stay high for life

Now both the Drowned and the Crystal Worlds can flow from there

Like a river of wisdom

Like a broth of despair

Apolithoma (meaning fossil in Greek) was conceived and recorded during the spring of 2020 under the influence of J.G Ballard’s writings and the perplexity of migraine labyrinthitis vertigo episodes."

Y.V.

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DJ / RADIO FEEDBACK:

"Really good! Even if I didn’t know who this was I’d instantly recognise his sound. Tops!" JD Twitch [Optimo Music / Blackest Ever Black / Strut / On-U Sound]

"Spectacular! [...] This record is really good, a lot of depth, many levels [...] one of the best things this year so far" Sean Johnston [Hardway Bros / ALFOS]

"WHOA! DOPE! Love it man" Dreems [Multi Culti / Le Temps Perdu / Malka Tuti]

"I love Port Mattare and Crystalize" Manfredas [Opium / Les Disques De La Mort]

"It's fresh ...[Crystalize] is my favourite" DJ SoFa [Pingipung / Emotional Response / Kalahari Oyster Cult / Safe Trip]

"As usual, a strong release" Alexis Le-Tan [Full Circle / Bahnsteig 23]

"Great" Anatolian Weapons [Beats In Space / Lurid Music / Serenades]

credits

released June 14, 2021

Yannis Veslemes: synthesizers, drum machines, vocals, percussion, harmonium, fx units, computer
Giotis Paraskevaidis: electric + acoustic bass, electric + acoustic guitar, drums, percussion, vibraphone, reed, spiral didgeridoo, bouzouki, talkbox
Gilad Atzmon: soprano + alto saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet
The Boy: additional vocals on Apolithoma
Roza Giannopoulou: oboe on The Carnivorous Bar

Mixed by Giotis Paraskevaidis (at Aux)
all tracks written + produced by Yannis Veslemes
except Port Mattare written by Veslemes / Atzmon / Paraskevaidis
mastering by James Savage
Artwork by Gordon Mackinnon

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Veslemes Athens, Greece

releases: Optimo Music, Byrd Out, Invisible Inc, Macadam Mambo, Into the Light, Rotten City, Six Dogs Rec, Ntrop, Inner Ear Rec, Sportex Audio

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www.discogs.com/artist/762742-Felizol

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soundcloud.com/felizol

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