Vital Weekly Reviews Eventless Plot

Also from Greece are Eventless Plot, who released a split album with Good Luck Mr Gorky which was reviewed in Vital Weekly 618. Eventless Plot is a three piece group ‘using a variety of organs, analog sources, field recordings, as also electronics and processed sounds’, although elsewhere it is mentioned that they use clarinet, piano, melodica and guitars. Whatever, me thinks. Its not that important, the result here is what counts and the result is great. This is not music that is easy to classify. But things come close to some of the music on 12K: glitch like, ambient, atmospheric, but there is throughout a feeling of jazz and post rock to be detected in these pieces. The piano plays softly in the background, the clicks produce a jazzy rhythm, and the organs are nicely adrift. Not very outspoken this music, but rather introspective and throughout highly atmospheric, but they do reach firmer, more solid ground at times, such as in ‘Habit Habitant’. Throughout an excellent debut album

ikon is the latest work by Eventless Plot, following up their split album with Good Luck mr Gorsky (granny02, 2008). In this album Eventless Plot approach an electro-acoustic sound using clarinet, piano, melodica and guitars blended with sampled recordings and processed electronics. As a result there is a complex ambience of sounds which provides the structure of the songs. Warm feedbacks, microsounds and rhythmic pulses create a jazz aesthetic which characterizes ikon's sound. This is Eventless Plot's first full length album to date.

Listen to an expert taken from granny records' forthcoming release, 'ikon' by Eventless Plot.

Eventless Plot - harck back

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live
facta non verba
i.dragoumi 65
saturday 16 may

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update : pictures from the show
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Greg Haines live
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Saturday 2 may
facta non verba . I Dragoumi 65
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update : images from the show

pictures from good luck mr. gorsky's live at Zenti bar.
(by freon)

good luck mr gorsky
live
29 march 2009
zenit bar
the saloniki

good luck mr. gorsky
live
Saturday 7 March
Kinky Kong
20:00

here is a review of eventless plot|good luck mr. gorsky split cd
from the greek webzine, avopolis written in greek.

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'' Υπάρχουν πολλοί λόγοι που τέτοιου είδους κυκλοφορίες, σαν και το split άλμπουμ των Goodluck Mr. Gorsky και Eventless Plot, είναι σημαντικές. Γιατί σε ένα συρφετό από αδιάφορες μουσικές δημιουργίες, γεμάτες ανοησία και ματαιοδοξία, μάς υπενθυμίζουν ότι υπάρχουν μικροί έστω πυρήνες αντίσταστης, αποτελούμενοι από ανθρώπους με πάθος και μεράκι, οι οποίοι, ξεπερνώντας αυτή την αναζήτηση του εύκολου, ψάχνουν διαφορετικές κατευθύνσεις, μέσα από δύσβατα πολλές φορές μονοπάτια. Και ασχέτως αν τα μουσικά γούστα του καθενός από εμάς πλησιάζουν ή αποκλίνουν με το προσφερόμενο αποτέλεσμα, όσο υπάρχουν τέτοιοι πυρήνες, θα κρατιέται πάντα ανοικτή αυτή η μικρή χαραμάδα ελπίδας. Και το ζήτημα δεν περιορίζεται στη μουσική – έχει να κάνει και με τον τόπο όπου βρισκόμαστε. Γιατί ζούμε σε μια χώρα όπου η λέξη ελπίδα κινδυνεύει να μετατραπεί (αν δηλαδή δεν έχει ήδη μετατραπεί) περίπου σε ανέκδοτο – ο θλιβερός κατάλογος με τα όσα πάνε στραβά στη χώρα μας μοιάζει ατελείωτος. Ίσως η πηγή του κακού να είναι η νοοτροπία που έχουμε εδώ και χρόνια υιοθετήσει σαν κοινωνικό σύνολο, αυτή η επιδίωξη του εύκολου, η οποία φαίνεται να έχει διαποτίσει σχεδόν όλες τις δομές της κοινωνίας, κάνοντάς τη φυγόπονη, λιγόψυχη. Από αυτή την κατάσταση φυσικά δεν μπορεί να εξαιρεθεί ο πολιτισμός, οι τέχνες, η μουσική.

Η Granny Records αποτελείται από μια ομάδα ανθρώπων (μια κολεκτίβα, όπως μας αρέσει να λέμε τελευταία) που μοιράζονται μεταξύ τους προβληματισμούς, αγάπη για παρόμοια μουσικά ακούσματα και κοινές επιδιώξεις, η οποία με τα πενιχρά μέσα που διαθέτει φιλοδοξεί, καθώς φαίνεται, να γίνει περισσότερο κάτι σαν δίαυλος επικοινωνίας μεταξύ των φίλων του συγκεκριμένου είδους με το οποίο ασχολείται, παρά ένα κανονικό label με την εμπορική έννοια του όρου. Η μουσική δε κινείται κάπου ανάμεσα στο ambient, το post rock και την electronica, παίρνοντας ίσως την σκυτάλη (τουλάχιστον όσο αφορά τη Θεσσαλονίκη) από την εξαιρετική, πρωτοπόρα και δυστυχώς εν αναστολή των λειτουργιών της (ελπίζουμε προσωρινά) Poeta Negra.

Τα δύο τριμελή σχήματα που παρουσιάζονται εδώ, έχοντας αναπτύξει ισχυρούς δεσμούς φιλίας, αποφασίζουν να συμμετάσχουν στην όλη προσπάθεια με την κυκλοφορία αυτού του split δίσκου, συνεισφέροντας από τρία κομμάτια έκαστο, δίνοντάς μας ένα δείγμα της εξαιρετικής τους δουλειάς. Αμφότεροι έχουν μικρή δισκογραφική εμπειρία – οι μεν Goodluck Mr. Grosky συμμετείχαν στις συλλογές Bits Of Quarter Blitz (στην πρώτη κυκλοφορία της Granny, το 2005) και Non Linear Views (ανεξάρτητη παραγωγή, 2006), ενώ οι Eventless Plot κυκλοφόρησαν ένα split 7'' βινύλιο με τον Ιταλό Mescalinaeden μέσω της Gracetone Recordings το 2005, συμμετείχαν κι αυτοί στη συλλογή Non Linear Views, καθώς και στη Yuria 2006 - ενώ αξιοσημείωτη είναι επίσης η εμφάνιση και των δύο στο περσινό Synch, καθώς και η κοινή τους μουσική απόδοση της βουβής ταινίας The Phantom Carriage (διαδικασία που μάλλον έφεραν σαν «εναλλακτική» μόδα οι Cinematic Orchestra με τη μουσική τους για το Man With A Movie Camera).

Μιλάμε για δύο συγκροτήματα με κοινή καταγωγή, κοινή αφετηρία, παρόμοιες αναφορές, αλλά με μικρές, ωστόσο, ουσιώδεις διαφορές στον τρόπο σύλληψης και απόδοσης των αργόσυρτων ιδεών τους. Οι Eventless Plot, για παράδειγμα, δείχνουν μια αφοσίωση σε μια πιο ηλεκτρονική χροιά του ambient, με χρήση πολλαπλών παραμορφώσεων – είτε αυτές προέρχονται από laptop, είτε από τις ατμοσφαιρικές κιθάρες που χρησιμοποιούνται κατά κόρον (εκτός από ένα σχετικά καθαρό, επαναλαμβανόμενο ριφ στο "Gram/ma") – σαφέστατα επηρεασμένες από καλλιτέχνες όπως ο Christian Fennesz. Με τις οποίες δημιουργούν ένα τείχος λευκού θορύβου, όπου και χτίζουν την εκάστοτε σύνθεση. Συνθέσεις που ακολουθούν μια κλιμακούμενη ένταση (στοιχείο που τελευταία μας οδηγεί – πολλές φορές εσφαλμένα – στον χαρακτηρισμό post rock), με όργανα και samples να προστίθενται στην πορεία και να συνυπάρχουν με τα ευφυέστατα beats, τα οποία παραπέμπουν σε σύγχρονους minimal techno πειραματισμούς και χρησιμοποιούνται και σαν ένα ακόμα στοιχείο έντασης: όπως για παράδειγμα στο "Caudatum" την πιο μακροσκελή και κατά την ταπεινή μου άποψη πιο «προοδευτική» σύνθεση του δίσκου. Αντίθετα οι Goodluck Mr. Grosky δείχνουν μια τάση σε μια πιο καθαρή μορφή του ambient, με καθαρές μπασογραμμές, ένα minimal drum set και καθαρά ακόρντα στη κιθάρα, θυμίζοντας σε διαστήματα τον Yellow 6. Φυσικά αυτό δεν σημαίνει ότι οι Goodluck Mr Grosky δεν χρησιμοποιούν την τεχνολογία. Το Autechre-ικό π.χ. beat στο εισαγωγικό "Organisa", καθώς και η όλη διαδικασία απόδοσης του εξαιρετικού "Olchmin" – ίσως η καλύτερή τους σύνθεση – την οποία φαίνεται να οδηγεί με έναν εξαιρετικά ευρηματικό τρόπο η μελόντικα και ένας διαολεμένα παραμορφωμένος ήχος τσέλου, φέρνει (έστω και αμυδρά) στο μυαλό τους Tied + Tickled Trio του Aelita.

Θα μπορούσε γενικά να ειπωθεί το πλέον κοινότοπο σχόλιο για ό,τι αξιόλογο κυκλοφορεί εντός των ελληνικών συνόρων. Ότι δηλαδή η συγκεκριμένη κυκλοφορία άνετα θα ευσταθούσε σε ένα κορυφαίο για τη συγκεκριμένη μουσική ευρωπαϊκό label, ότι τα δύο συγκροτήματα δεν έχουν κάτι σημαντικό να ζηλέψουν από τους Ευρωπαίους συναδέλφους τους κ.ο.κ. Αυτό όμως που έχει σημασία στους σημερινούς δύσκολους καιρούς είναι ότι το συγκεκριμένο split άλμπουμ μας γεμίζει με την ελπίδα ότι τελικά κάτι μπορεί και να αλλάξει. Μας δίνει μέσα στη σκοτεινιά των συνθέσεων την πεποίθηση ότι, όσο υπάρχουν μουσικοί με φαντασία, ευρεία αντίληψη του αντικειμένου και διάθεση για πειραματισμό, όπως οι Goodluck Mr. Grosky και οι Eventless Plot (στεκόμενοι δίπλα σε ονόματα όπως οι Peekah Tayloh, Dani Joss, Your Hand In Mine, Spyweirdos κ.α.) υπάρχει πάντα η πιθανότητα να δούμε αυτό το αναθεματισμένο φως στην άκρη του τούνελ, το οποίο δυστυχώς φαντάζει πάντα τόσο μακρύ.''

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''As far as ambient electronica and soundscapes go in 2008 this is among the best that I have heard (along with Curtis Crayon and Black To Comm). Dense, full and dynamic tracks that vibrate and hum with organic life and praise the details and most minimal things in life as the most important. The simplicity and straightforwardness is just on the surface, but if you dive into the tracks, or let them drown you in their gentle sparkle, then you'll realize all the microscopic sparks glistering around you. In some ways Inverz still has the organic structure that I am missing so dearly with Fennesz these last years. This album burns with its own translucent beauty.''
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inverz live @ kinky kong with Machinefabriek

phantom carriage II

good luck mr. gorsky and eventless plot gave a great performance during the screening of 'the phantom carriage' for the 49th Thessaloniki Film Festival.

The musicians would like to thank the 'independence days' department and Lefteris Adamidis, the 'facta non verba' team for providing the rehearsal space, Michael Albright, Apostolos Karakasis and all their film students, and all the people who came.

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good luck mr gorsky and eventless plot will perform live at the 49th thessaloniki film festival, playing along the screening of the Swedish film 'the phantom carriage'. The event will take place on Tuesday ,November 18, at 'John Cassavetes' theater , 22:30 .

for information on the film go here

new release | inverz-songs

‘Songs’ by Inverz is granny records’ third release following the split release between eventless plot and good luck mr gorsky (2008) and the compilation cd ‘bits of quartz glitter’ (2004).

Inverz is the moniker under which Savvas Metaxas records his music the last four years. The ‘songs’ album was recorded during the winter of 2008 at inverz’s home and the compositions were built upon various layers of electric and acoustic guitars, vintage synths and field recordings. The album is enhanced with two collaborations, one featuring Iraklis Iosifidis from 2l8 on ‘bow song’ and the second featuring one mile tar on the remix of ‘q song’. Inverz, being an actual member of good luck mr gorsky and also playing and recording for the 2L8 band has established his presence in the underground musical community of Thessaloniki. In this album he offers his own interpretation of wide landscapes, abstract ambience and noise that stands out as his most complete work to date.

tracklist

l song

d song

r song

k song

f song

v song

bow song

q song

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Recorded and mixed by Inverz (real name Savvas Metaxas, based in Thessaloniki, Greece and a founding member of Good Luck Mr Gorsky) at home during last winter, Songs' eight settings were assembled from multiple layers of electric and acoustic guitars, synthesizers, field recordings, loops, electric piano, an old tape recorder, melodica, and samples. Though they're short for the genre (most are in the five- to seven-minute range), the pieces are fundamentally ambient noise drones that Metaxas has shaped into slow-moving panoramas of immense textural depth. And though they're not conventionally pretty in character, they're not unmusical or dissonant either. The source materials are sometimes melded into teeming abstract wholes and lose their identifying character as a result: “l song” pursues a linear trajectory as it slowly swells into an immense vortex of droning layers, and “r song” opens with scattered pings of tinkles that are eventually buried under a hammering wave of noise. In other cases, the instruments remain identifiable: “k song” brings the intensity down a few notches which allows the electric guitar to be clearly heard amidst the industrial churn, “v song” opens with peaceful layers of acoustic guitar picking that are eventually engulfed by sheets of noise, and “t song” presents a seething blend of piano tinkles and what sounds like amplified seashore sounds. The fifty-four-minute collection includes two collaborations. The deep groan of the bowed contrabass underpins upper register string fragments in the album's longest and most memorable piece, “bow song,” which Metaxas constructed using several contrabass samples played by Iraklis Losifidis and which grows into a heaving, near-tribal mass of percussive accents and layered strings. The closing “q song,” a remix treatment featuring One Mile Tar, seems a rather anomalous inclusion by comparison, given the degree to which it gravitates towards conventional rhythm-based electronica. Even so, the rather cheekily-titled Songs should certainly satisfy listeners with an appetite for abstract sound sculpting.


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''Savvas Metaxas (which sounds like a good drink) is the guitarist from 2L8 and a member of Good Luck Mr Gorsky but also active solo under the guise of Inverz. For his album 'Songs' he plays guitar (electric and acoustic), vintage synthesizers and field recordings. That may seem like old hat, and obviously the end result doesn't offer much new under the micro sun, but I thought the result were pretty neat. Tinkling guitars in the middle of sea of swirling electronic sounds, field recordings being processed to quite an extent where they become unrecognizable. Maybe its all done and said before, and occasionally also better than this, this is still a fine copy of say Fennesz meets Machinefabriek. Core piece is 'Bow Song', which features only the contrabass by Iraklis Iosifidis, in various, layered samples, building a nice drone piece. On a hot day like this, I'd like to sit back and enjoy whatever is coming to me in a nice way, and this is just the one for such a day; when more thinking is not necessary''. (FdW)

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synch festival

eventless plot and good luck mr gorsky will perform at this year's synch festival.
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eventless plot | good luck mr. gorsky

eventless plot | good luck mr. gorsky. split cd. out now.

There are three people behind Good luck mr. Gorsky. The band was formed in Thessaloniki and this is their first release. In the past the band had participated in two compilations, ‘bits of quartz glitter’ (granny 2005) and ‘non linear views’ (no label, 2006) including artists like Theodore, neon, 2l8… The band’s compositions are based on natural sound sources and various instruments; all processed live, through sound and loop manipulations.

Eventless Plot is a three-member band from Thessaloniki. Their music moves around experimentation by using software, synths, processed guitars and other strange or not instruments. They have taken part in ‘non linear views’ compilation (no label, 2006) including artists like Theodore, neon, 2l8… and in ‘yuria’ compilation (vm recordings, 2008) with artists like Leafcutter John, Spyweirdos, Vokal Idiot…They have also released a 7”split single with Italian composer Mescalinaeden for Gracetone Recordings label.

tracklist.

organisa
chromes
olchmin

underseashore
gram/ma
cautadum

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“Chromes” by Good Luck Mr. Gorsky mixes the slowly meandering beat of what could be an acoustic version of dubstep with the polished yet intellectually refined jazz ambience of early ECM circa Mick Goodrick or Gary Burton, then adds some electronic crackles and a female voice as ephemeral and adrift in its own world as the best of music from iceland. Yet the tree piece Good Luck Mr. Gorsky, who open up this split-CD, are from the European geographic opposite of iceland, Greece. Throughout their three tracks on this split Good Luck Mr. Gorsky stay within the slowly moving area, defines its own track with a distinct yet warm bassline and the rest of the instruments playing around it. The ECM-ambience is further enhanced when a glockenspiel comes up for a solitary moment in “olchim”, the third track.

Eventless Plot, their partners on this release, are also a three piece band from Greece and they dive into associated musical waters, though their mix is somewhat more complex yet more experimental. All six tracks on this unique release are delicate examples of fine, intuitive composing and a sort of musicianship, where a certain feeling counts more than craftmanship. They also mix a little electronic trickery with acoustic instruments, starting off with a low hum overlayed with various things at once, which after Good Luck Mr. Gorsky makes you think of some more dubstep influenced postrock. But inspite of the dark and brooding urban nightscene atmosphere there is a few suprises up around the bend. For instance when vocal samples effectively destroy a song at the end or when relentless feeping sounds introduce a shattering silence of glass chimes, or when “gramma” develops from tiniest beginnings to a mountain of layers of sounds.

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“Organisa” takes the listener on a slow drift through an underground tunnel resonant with guitar shadings, horns that cry like dying animals, and other disturbed noises. In the equally slow-moving dirges “Chromes” and “Olchmin,” monotone voices and glockenspiels bleed over curdling bass and drum rhythms. One might liken Good Luck Mr. Gorsky's gloomy post-rock experimentalism and nocturnal jazz guitar shadings to a diseased Labradford.

Armed with synths, processed guitars, and other instruments, Eventless Plot is kindred in murky spirit to Good Luck Mr. Gorsky. In “Underseashore,” bell tinkles, disembodied voices, and string tones swim within a thick cauldron of simmering noise while “Gram/Ma” begins tranquilly before swelling into an eruptive mass of clarinet croaks and cymbal accents. “Cautadum” meanders through a gloomy desert of piano tinkles, cello tones, and electrified micro-patter for twelve glassy minutes.

textura

‘There are images in which there is nothing to see, images without trace, without shadow, without consequnecees’ wrote once Jean Baudrillard. But everything can be described, with the appropriate orchestra, that will play the exact music needed indecisive on the right time. Including that of the primarily impossible’ [review in Greek]

mic

'Like urban afternoon soundtracks. There is a nice continuity between both acts here, although from different approaches and all in all, a nice release''

tilt recordings

'the musical quality however is very high for both bands. Great playing, moody music, enough sense of experimentalism, make this a great CD that can easily meet the best in this otherwise not very crowded field'

vital weekly

'Both bands work on structures and forms, grounded on the post-rock and electronica sounds of the early 90s , but on the contraty to many others, what they play is many steps far from the artistic death caused by post.' [review in Greek]

tranzistor

'...Two of the new most promising Greek bands, experimenting with all the aspects of modern electronica. It starts like a dream which gradually becomes a nightmare. ' [review in Greek]

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