Polyscope is a music community based in Athens, Greece.
 
Convinced that the world doesn’t need another independent record label, Polyscope was initiated by Giorgos Kravvaritis & Pantelis Pilavios as a home for their own music and projects as well as a medium through which artists they admire have the freedom to release music in whatever way they deem necessary. 
 
The community aims to offer a platform to promote artists’ recordings through its growing network, together with an alternative way of releasing music independently. By not bending under specific genre umbrellas and with no commercially motivated compromises, its releases span from punk to free jazz, from ambient and drone to contemporary traditional, to noise rock and live electronic. All profits from the releases are directed to the respective artists, and at times are collectively donated to charities and non-governmental organisations.
 
Polyscope is not a record label. It is a medium for self-releasing music digitally and occasionally physically. It embraces total artistic freedom, cherishes the network it creates and acts as an incubator for upcoming artists to grow, release and perform new material and for disbanded projects to archive or re-issue their music.

Created honestly and with a punk attitude, motivated by the vision of being a space for new ideas to form and be presented without being dictated by profit.

With an internet connection and a world class studio in my backpack, I find inspiration anywhere I can. I’m currently somewhere in Montana, working remotely with collaborators around the world, making beats, writing, producing and enjoying the view.

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30 miles west of El Paso, surrounded by 3,000 acres of pecan orchards and only a stone’s throw from the Mexican border, the band Big Thief (a.k.a. Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, Max Oleartchik, and James Krivchenia) set up their instruments as close together as possible to capture their most important collection of songs yet. The band had only just finished work on their 3rd album, U.F.O.F. -“the celestial twin”- days before in a cabin studio in the woods of Washington State. Now it was time to birth U.F.O.F.’s sister album -“the earth twin”- Two Hands. 

In sharp contrast to the wet environment of the U.F.O.F. session, the southwestern Sonic Ranch studio was chosen for its vast desert location. The 105-degree weather boiled away any clinging memories of the green trees and wet air of the previous session. Two Hands had to be completely different— an album about the Earth and the bones beneath it. The songs were recorded live with almost no overdubs. All but two songs feature entirely live vocal takes, leaving Adrianne’s voice suspended above the mix in dry air, raw and vulnerable as ever. Where U.F.O.F. layered mysterious sounds and effects for levitation, Two Hands grounds itself on dried-out, cracked desert dirt. 

Anybody who has borne witness to Big Thief in the wild will find songs they recognize here. Much of the album’s tracks (“The Toy”, “Those Girls”, “Shoulders”, “Not”, “Cut My Hair”) have been live staples for years. “Two Hands has the songs that I’m the most proud of; I can imagine myself singing them when I’m old,” says Adrianne. “Musically and lyrically, you can’t break it down much further than this. It’s already bare-bones.” 

Lyrically this can be felt in the poetic blur of the internal and external. These are political songs without political language. They explore the collective wounds of our Earth. Abstractions of the personal hint at war, environmental destruction, and the traumas that fuel it. Lyrics like “And the blood of the man who killed my mother with his hands is in me/ it’s in me/ in my veins” are genuine attempts to point the listener towards the very real dangers that face our mother planet. When Adrianne sings “Please wake up,” she’s talking directly to the audience. “Attention is power,” she says. “I believe you can manifest something on the other side of the world just by using your power well.” 

Engineer Dom Monks and producer Andrew Sarlo, who were both behind U.F.O.F., capture the live energy as instinctually and honestly as possible. Sarlo teamed up with James Krivchenia to mix the album, where they sought to emphasize raw power and direct energy inherent in the takes. The journey of a song from the stage to the record is often a difficult one. Big Thief’s advantage is their bond and loving center as a chosen family. They spend almost 100% of their lives together working towards a sound that they all agree upon. A band with this level of togetherness is increasingly uncommon. If you ask drummer James Krivchenia, bassist Max Oleartchik or guitarist Buck Meek how they write their parts, they will describe—passionately—the experience of hearing Adrianne present a new song, listening intently for hints of parts that already exist in the ether and the undertones to draw out with their respective instruments. It is an honor to give life to these intricacies. 

With raw power and intimacy, Two Hands folds itself gracefully into Big Thief’s impressive discography. This body of work grows deeper and more inspiring with each new album. While you listen, let your own two hands rest in front of your body with palms facing inward and see what power grows between them.

We live in dark times. All we need is some afterhours music

Glass Rebel is an Εlectro/Νew Wave project from Athens formed in 2016. Its discography is based on collaborations with special artists. In April 2017 their debut 7” vinyl “Trees/Suntan” was released by Amour/EMI Records, followed by the double A-Side 7’’ vinyl “Cancer/Flaw In Love” in June, with new special artists. In June 2019 the band released their third (out of a box-set of four) vinyl "Albenga / Time Loss" featuring Sarah P. Their latest digital single "Hold Your Breath / Albenga (SWIM remix)" is released in October 2022. The band keeps working on new ideas and gets prepared for the next live gigs.

A beatmaker producing sounds with a very distinctive feature: all tracks are crafted using rare recordings extracted from Greek vinyls from the 50s to the 80s. Every single melody, vocal, or drum hit are exclusively sampled from old Greek records and films.

Keep it vintage,cinematic&emotional.

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