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Aeon is the track featured in the Ioannina School of Music Music Production Course promo video.

Vocals - Nastazia Beikof
Drums - Sami Hashme
Production - Panos Lagdas

For more information about ISM visit:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ioannina-School-of-Music/440967146024531

For More information on the Course visit:
http://goo.gl/ZQrLxe

Watch the video at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqNvWGqH0Xw

Aeon | Ioannina School Of Music Promo Track

Back in 1818, at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf the Christmas carol "Silent Night" was performed for the first time by Franz Xaver Gruber and Joseph Mohr. In March 2011 the song was declared an intangible cultural heritage. Until today many artists have recorded this song in many ways and this version is simply another contribution of my interpretation on this Christmas carol.

Special thanks to Chrysa Sidiropoulou for the vocal samples she provided on such short notice.

Silent Night

The Years Are Yet To Come

monologue siren
№2 

Pic. Anton Zhulev 

The Sirens

"Sky" is a sample from a track that is still in progress. By that time I shot a time lapse video of clouds near the city of Ioannina as I was experimenting with my new (by that time) camera. I loved the result, it is always fascinating to watch things that are happening so slow that you can't perceive that change and inspired by that footage that I shot, I begun to make this music for that video.. the video is uploaded on my youtube channel, it is not a big deal, technically flawed, but it's more like that this footage depicts a fraction of my time home while also has some abstract meaning to me. 

That is the video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX5HzXa_iU4

Hope you all enjoy it!

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P.S. If there is any photographers out there, I am working on my tracks artwork at this moment so, whether you are an amateur or pro, as long as you feel confident for your work, feel free to contact me and submit your photo to be featured. The only guideline that I can give is that the photo, must somehow, have to be relevant to the track titles. Of course I will make sure that I give credit to your work by including your name to when this album will released.

For some reference you can check out the first entries here:

http://soundcloud.com/panosla/one-peaceful-moment

http://soundcloud.com/panosla/sky

You can tweet me your photo @PanosLa_ as well as you can p.m. me with a link to your work by visiting my profile in Soundcloud.

Year Zero - Sky

"One Peaceful Moment" is a part of a bigger project started in 2007. That project consists of 5 tracks so far, which are still on progress. For various reasons, I am keep having a procrastinating stance towards this project.. don't know the exact reason, though I have the feeling that this project would be naturally complete when I'll feel that urge to finish it and not by systematically working on it. Most likely this is due to its nature and how the whole idea of this project was conceived.

All I can say about this song is that one day I woke up with this melody in my head trying to realize why I was having that melody in my head.. So, in order not to forget it, I sat on my keyboard and recorded that tune.. All the rest, pads, atmosphere etc, just made it out of my head without much of an effort... I finally realized that all these were in my head having the form of a dream.. Usually when you wake up, the tendency is to forget your dreams, but somehow, it all came back to me... well, that dream it was someone else's who briefly shared it with me about a year ago (by that time) while having a morning small talk and strangely enough I recalled it about a year later.. I guess our sub/conscious can play great mind tricks...

Enjoy

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P.S. If there is any photographers out there, I am working on my tracks artwork at this moment so, whether you are an amateur or pro, as long as you feel confident for your work, feel free to contact me and submit your photo to be featured. The only guideline that I can give is that the photo, must somehow, have to be relevant to the track titles. Of course I will make sure that I give credit to your work by including your name to when this album will released.

For some reference you can check out the first entries here:

http://soundcloud.com/panosla/one-peaceful-moment

http://soundcloud.com/panosla/sky

You can tweet me your photo @PanosLa_ as well as you can p.m. me with a link to your work by visiting my profile in Soundcloud.

Year Zero - One Peaceful Moment

"13 Seconds" is an "Ambient Electronic" (genre-wise) track and it is the track that gave name to this whole project. That project it consists about 5 tracks and it was started in 2007 but unfortunately enough, all these years it has been pushed back. The reasons? Probably my procrastination, waiting to be in the right creative state of mind in order to move on and complete it as well as interference from other projects not allowing me to "finish the job".

A remix/version of this track was performed live in the 4th Educational Audio Visual Productions Festival in 2009 by me and my colleague and friend Dimitris but sadly only some parts and raw footage had survived from that performance.

In this video there is some raw footage from that performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ8nHAHKc-o

Enjoy

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P.S. If there is any photographers out there, I am working on my tracks artwork at this moment so, whether you are an amateur or pro, as long as you feel confident for your work, feel free to contact me and submit your photo to be featured. The only guideline that I can give is that the photo, must somehow, have to be relevant to the track titles. Of course I will make sure that I give credit to your work by including your name to when this album will released.

For some reference you can check out the first entries here:

http://soundcloud.com/panosla/one-peaceful-moment

http://soundcloud.com/panosla/sky

You can tweet me your photo @PanosLa_ as well as you can p.m. me with a link to your work by visiting my profile in Soundcloud.

Year Zero - 13 Seconds

This track can be considered simply as enlightenment! There is not much that I can say about this track... The idea was an abstract set of melodies combined using echoing delays and the rest such as the beat and the atmosphere just followed. That track was laid down in a single day and it was fine tuned the day after. This one is definitely doesn't sound like the usual me, though I admit it became one of my favorite works really fast. Maybe is because this time I used a different approach when it come to arrangement and programming.. I've ended up with a 4 tabs patch in Lemur just for that track (special thanks to that person who patiently stayed there for hours and watched me program those interfaces)

Enjoy!

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P.S. If there is any photographers out there, I am working on my tracks artwork at this moment so, whether you are an amateur or pro, as long as you feel confident for your work, feel free to contact me and submit your photo to be featured. The only guideline that I can give is that the photo, must somehow, have to be relevant to the track titles. Of course I will make sure that I give credit to your work by including your name to when this album will released.

For some reference you can check out the first entries here:

http://soundcloud.com/panosla/one-peaceful-moment

http://soundcloud.com/panosla/sky

You can tweet me your photo @PanosLa_ as well as you can p.m. me with a link to your work by visiting my profile in Soundcloud.

Year Zero - Constant Motion

It was somewhere about in June or August of 2011 when that track was produced. I kept playing it again and again for almost 6 months trying to figure out what is missing... The track felt somehow incomplete to me. The search of the missing element was inconclusive. I listened to that track a million times, I almost meditated on it, enjoyed the calm and relaxed atmosphere as well as the minimal melodies and beats and I still can't understand what is missing (if there is anything after all), I almost became obsessed over the idea of something missing. So I share it with you as it is, only a few tweaks here and there.. and an image of a clearing when I listen to it. 

Bizarre!

Enjoy!

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P.S. If there is any photographers out there, I am working on my tracks artwork at this moment so, whether you are an amateur or pro, as long as you feel confident for your work, feel free to contact me and submit your photo to be featured. The only guideline that I can give is that the photo, must somehow, have to be relevant to the track titles. Of course I will make sure that I give credit to your work by including your name to when this album will released. 

For some reference you can check out the first entries here:

http://soundcloud.com/panosla/one-peaceful-moment

http://soundcloud.com/panosla/sky

You can tweet me your photo @PanosLa_ as well as you can p.m. me with a link to your work by visiting my profile in Soundcloud.

Year Zero - The Clearing

Every once in a while I go back to my backups hard drive where all my god forsaken unfinished work is "buried". Some time somewhere back in 2010 I started to lay down this track. It turned to be a bit different that the version you can listen to here, most likely because of my different state of mind back at that time, but still the key elements remain. A soft and maybe a bit dark ambient atmosphere, definitely more cinematic in terms of harmony and maybe texture and a minimal beat. I hope you enjoy it and feel free to give me some feedback by commenting or however this huge social-network-thing works for you!

Thank you for listening!

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P.S. If there is any photographers out there, I am working on my tracks artwork at this moment so, whether you are an amateur or pro, as long as you feel confident for your work, feel free to contact me and submit your photo to be featured. The only guideline that I can give is that the photo, must somehow, have to be relevant to the track titles. Of course I will make sure that I give credit to your work by including your name to when this album will released.

For some reference you can check out the first entries here:

http://soundcloud.com/panosla/one-peaceful-moment

http://soundcloud.com/panosla/sky

You can tweet me your photo @PanosLa_ as well as you can p.m. me with a link to your work by visiting my profile in Soundcloud.

Year Zero - An Abundant Amount Of Time

This track is just what you expect it to be... A slow evolving ambient atmosphere, really calming... almost meditative accompanied by the gentle ambience of waves and seagulls. It's simplicity can be translated maybe as the break between things that constantly and routinelly happening, a brake from complexity that is crossing over to something simple that lets the mind and soul to relax.

Enjoy!

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P.S. If there is any photographers out there, I am working on my tracks artwork at this moment so, whether you are an amateur or pro, as long as you feel confident for your work, feel free to contact me and submit your photo to be featured. The only guideline that I can give is that the photo, must somehow, have to be relevant to the track titles. Of course I will make sure that I give credit to your work by including your name to when this album will released.

For some reference you can check out the first entries here:

http://soundcloud.com/panosla/one-peaceful-moment

http://soundcloud.com/panosla/sky

You can tweet me your photo @PanosLa_ as well as you can p.m. me with a link to your work by visiting my profile in Soundcloud.

Year Zero - Bathed By Light

"A Source Of Light" is the latest addition to the "Year Zero" Album. I consider this as the evolution of the track "http://soundcloud.com/panosla/sky" 
 because it was made out of the same set and share the same characteristics. "A Source Of Light" is a peaceful and calm track, with a soothing atmosphere, echoing sounds with a minimal approach on melody and harmony.

Recently "Year Zero" launched a Facebook page to keep in touch with everyone appreciate this project and spread the word so if you feel like keeping in touch and on track with "Year Zero" a simple like should be on its way.

https://www.facebook.com/year.zero.gr

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P.S. If there is any photographers out there, I am working on my tracks artwork at this moment so, whether you are an amateur or pro, as long as you feel confident for your work, feel free to contact me and submit your photo to be featured. The only guideline that I can give is that the photo, must somehow, have to be relevant to the track titles. Of course I will make sure that I give credit to your work by including your name to when this album will released.

For some reference you can check out the first entries here:

http://soundcloud.com/panosla/one-peaceful-moment

http://soundcloud.com/panosla/sky

You can tweet me your photo @PanosLa_ as well as you can p.m. me with a link to your work by visiting my profile in Soundcloud.

Year Zero - A Source Of Light

"Sand and Castles" is an spontaneous improvisation while testing out my new setup to create and control drones. The whole track was creating by blowing air into a 40ml glass bottle. This is a part that I "chopped" of from the original improvisation video. If you are interested in this kind of music, just have a look at the video of the performance.

Take care everyone!

The video can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkWOHdIEwNM (or just press the button that Soundcloud have almost hidden)

Recently "Year Zero" launched a Facebook page to keep in touch with everyone appreciate this project and spread the word so if you feel like keeping in touch and on track with "Year Zero" a simple like should be on its way.

https://www.facebook.com/year.zero.gr

Year Zero - Sand and Castles

"There Is No Shades Of Gray" is the track that marks the completion of the "Year Zero" project. There is not much that I can say about it. I just hope you all enjoy it. The album is going to be released somewhere between December (2012) and January (2013) at all major music e-shops and it will be composed by remastered versions of the tracks already contained in this promo.

Year Zero - There Is No Shades Of Gray

We live in the future by trying to convince our selves that we got everything under control by planning and scheduling whilst we gaze to our precious past for knowledge and experience. The funny thing is that while we think we live and everything goes fine, we elude the idea that what we actually do is simply to exist in the present, quietly and lifeless. As if life is a big highway that we drive on, moving forward and instead of enjoying the ride we simply give a glimpse every now and then on the mirror to see what it was in front of your eyes just a moment ago.

For updates and more info connect with our facebook page on
www.facebook.com/theyear0

cosmosound

Alekseev Alexey