Heading back to my beloved Crete. Hence the theme. This time made a point to drive to Knossos. To see the remnants of hypothetic Daedalus labyrinth. Some historians think these were dancing grounds where the chosen Athenian youths - King Minos's sacrificial tributes for the Minotaur - were offered their final chance to shine through plastic arts. How morbid! A few scholars suggest that the labyrinth itself was built as a system of dancefloors. Supposedly implied by the outline of the palace's ruins. Proto-Ibiza? Bull dances and geranos (crane dance) would be the types performed.

In this double-decked issue I'm suggesting the imaginary repertoire of such recitals. Actual Greek/Cretan dance tunes (Kritikos, Hellispontos) as well as recreations based on surviving Ancient Greek musical notation (Atrium Musicae's transcription of Æschylus' Ajax) are included. Plus, detours into Mediterranean avant jazz (Sakis Papadimitriou); rebetika and Hellenic electronics (Lena Platonos, Dimitris Petsetakis & Vangelis Katsoulis). The rest is music inspired by the Greek mythology. Including Haruomi Hosono's drift on the Aegean Sea; Photek taming the Minotaur; The Black Dog's visions of Sparta; Neil Ardley jazzing Greek Variations and Donato Dozzy exiting the Acropolis. There's even Gail Laughton's harp fantasias conjuring Crete circa 1400 B.C. It will suffice for a 2hr-drive from Chania to Heraklion. 

Full tracklist at:
https://snowsovgethen.com/journal/snows-ov-gethen-hermetic-journals-into-the-labyrinth-sacrificial-dances-of-knossos

Hermetic Journals: Into The Labyrinth (Sacrificial Dances Of Knossos)(May-June 2023)

A thousand mirrors could never steal your shadow.

(A community service without order)...

More reasons to be fearful.

A Great Magus He'll Decry.

A time outside of time...

Sharing beautiful music is what its all about...

Transmissions to the aether • des bruits colorés
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Soul Asylum is an Athens based House Party, founded in 2013, by Seou, Angelheart & Kalia P. 
Staying loyal to its roots, it is an open space to diversity with respect to privacy. Talking place more often in non commercial spaces, warehouses, squats, terraces, lofts, but always based on high quality soundsystems and proper dance floors for the dancers.
Soul Asylum's music identity emphasizes to deep funky rhythms & high frequencies, providing  the message of Oneness. It has no borders to percussive music from house, disco, afro beat & post/punk to jazz funk, electro, breaks & techno. 
Music director is Seou,  a lifetime music lover and dancefloor soul. Resident  dj as a teenager at the notorious club Decadance, and later at genuine parties like Breathe Deep Athens with Athens scene pioneer Dj Akylla, and Bomba Energia Soundsystem with Simeon Nomideis/ Breakin Moves and Antonis Katelanos.
In 2015 the Soul Asylum Collective started a hedonistic project, called AΦRODISIAK moving also in the Underground Dance Music territory. A safe space for the queer community and the sinners.
With first resident djs Franck Roger (Paris, Real Tone), Seou & Raw Patterns aka @shiftedphaseofficial.
Angelheart is the soul behind our artwork and @costakalogiros our sound engineer.
We have the honor & pleasure to host and cooperate with artists like Monique Bingham, Makis Papadimitratos,  Manos Chrisovergis aka @lastdaysofsex, Venediktos Adipas, Michael Moses aka Aurinio, Ilias Pappas aka @thepriest-5 , Pan @pangaian , MC Bredda Ahmed Ali,  Michael Fotakis.
We have partied as well with the tunes of dis, @djmanousos (Dusty Dreams), Rusty Brown aka @breakinmoves (Bomba Energia Soundsystem),  Dimitris Katsikinis (Music Sanctuary Beats), Koro, John Tsolakis, Mike Hudson, LoveSounDevotion, McCastaway, Candance, .

i woke up in an empty graveyard with a ringing in my ears and the taste of blood in my mouth...
Somewhere behind me I hear a diesel horn. I wonder one more time if I've gone crazy.
Then I notice how much my hand hurts... I don't need to see to know why...
I'm crying and I scream her name again and again...
and again...

Hermetic Journals: Into The Labyrinth (Sacrificial Dances Of Knossos)(May-June 2023)

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