https://soundcloud.com/afteraltamont
https://soundcloud.com/insideoutrec
🛒 https://afteraltamont.bandcamp.com/album/elektriki-rembetologia
🔊 https://youtu.be/PCzc1ODJ_v0

After Altamont, the mysterious live band alias of Stavros Potamitis and Constantinos Parisinos, return to Inside Out Records with a truly collaborative EP, “Elektriki Rembetologia”. Rebetiko briefly can be described as the urban popular song of the Greeks, especially the poorest, from the late 19th century to the 1950s, outlawed and driven underground during the Ottoman Empire. Rebetiko grew out of particular urban circumstances. Often its lyrics reflect the harsher realities of a marginalized subculture's lifestyle. Thus one finds themes such as crime, drink, drugs, poverty, prostitution and violence, but also a multitude of themes of relevance to Greek people of any social stratum: death, eroticism, exile, exoticism, disease, love, marriage, matchmaking, the mother figure, work, war.
After Altamont set a psychedelic, theatrical, hypnotic journey throughout the album. They fuse slow hypnotic grooves, analog electronics and traditional Greek musical instruments for their interpretation of the known Mpournovalia and Tha Spasw Koupes, featuring original vocals by the incredibly talented Dunja Botic. The third track Aspra Xwmata is an original song which includes a virtuoso original Greek bouzouki improvised solo and spoken vocals by Anna Maria Harokopou, a very influential music personality in the Athenian Electronic Music Scene. The albums psychedelic journey is strengthened by beautiful remixes from Lamusa II, Steve Pepe, METAMAN (WonTon Records) and Anna Disclaim.
Artwork by Marius Houschyar.

Tracklist:

1. Tha Spasw Koupes ft. Dunja Botic
2. Mpournovalia ft. Dunja Botic
3. Aspra Xwmata ft. Anna Maria Harokopou (written by Stevie R, Parisinos)
4. Tha Spasw Koupes ft. Dunja Botic (Lamusa II Remix)
5. Tha Spasw Koupes ft. Dunja Botic (Anna Disclaim Remix)
6. Mpournovalia ft. Dunja Botic (METAMAN Remix)
7. Aspra Xwmata (written by Stevie R, Parisinos) (Steve Pepe Remix)

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Tha Spasw Koupes

PREMIERE:  After Altamont - Tha Spasw Koupes ft. Dunja Botic [Inside Out Records]

Stavros Potamitis (aka Stevie R) conjures emotion and weaves sonic tales by combining the rebetiko folk music of his Greek homeland with analogue electronics. Working with a range of collaborators he offers forward thinking, avant-garde music and daring, theatrical live performances that freely blend and cross over between musical styles. As well as being a musician, producer and performer, Stevie is a lecturer at Point Blank Music College in London, runs his own record label Inside Out Records and is A & R of Chapter 24 Records. Always looking to push musical and sonic boundaries, he is just as relentlessly focused on moving things forward in his own work as he is committed to supporting the next generations to break through.

Few things people said about his music:

Mixmag: “Melt is a mesmerising collection of organic sounds and esoteric themes from a creative force of nature”

DJ Mag: “It’s goofy, hefty and fierce and has more bass and hand-held percussion than you ever knew you needed. Massive stuff”

Disclosure: Chugger!

Andrew Weatherall: “A right pair of dirty shunters!"

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