Electric Litany "Under A Common Sky"

Country: UK/Greece
Genre(s): Atmospheric Art/Post Rock
Label: Inner Ear Records (Greece), Apollon Records/ONErpm (world)
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: September 27, 2019 (Greece), November  22, 2019 (world), December 6, 2019 (digital)
Tracklist: 
1. Azure (3:50)
2. CFU (7:54)
3. SeaLight (5:54)
4. England (4:22)
5. Bedroom (5:26)
6. Under A Common Sky (Refugee) (4:56)
7. The 7th Goodbye (4:37)
8. Embark (5:02)
9. The World Is Changing While You Sleep (5:43)

Total Time 47:44

Line-up: 
Alexandros Miaris - Vocals, Guitars, Piano, Synths
 Pavlos Mavromatakis - Bass
 Benjamin Prince - Keys
 Richard Simic - Drums

Description/Reviews: 

Under A Common Sky could be described as a chronicle of British underground genres spilling over into the mainstream. From post-punk to prog and from new wave to post-rock, Under A Common Sky hearkens back to the greatest moments in British music history with a myriad of sounds and textures, creating a perfect blend of modern and retro sounds. 

Read the full review by Robert Westerveld at  blinkersremoved.com

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Refugee (Under A Common Sky)
Sealight
Azure
Progstreaming

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Dury Dava "Satana"

Country: Greece
Genre(s): Psychedelic, Fusion, Progressive Rock
Label: Inner Ear Records - ΙΝΝ174L
Format: vinyl, digital
Release date: May 10, 2019
Tracklist: 
1. Africi (Africa)
2. Triptych
3. Ela Pali Na
4. Satana
5. Zoupa
6. Kalokairi (Summer)
7. 3452
8. Ataxia (Disorder)
9. Tarlabasi
10. Kane Ligo Alithina

Line-up: 
Karolos Berahas - bass, keys, synth
Giorgis Karras - electric guitar, dilruba
Dimitris Mantzavinos - vocals, electric guitar, bouzouki
Dimitris Prokos - clarinet, synth
Ilias Livieratos - drums, percussion

Description/Reviews: 

Several compositional trajectories are employed, drawing inspiration from a wide variety of places. Their music pays tribute to the raw grit of 60's psychedelia and 70's krautrock, and fuses elements from the Greco-Turkish musical traditions such as odd rhythms and folk dances with a punk mentality, resulting in an amalgamation of contemporary experimental rock with heterogeneous throwback underpinnings. What it lacks for in discipline, it compensates for in energy and spontaneity.

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Chickn "Wowsers!"

Country: Greece
Genre(s): Psychedelic, Retro, Prog Related Rock
Label: Inner Ear Records INN157L
Format: vinyl+CD, digital
Release date: May 11, 2018
Tracklist: 
01. Invocation
02. Is This Cher
03. Too Many Parables
04. I Cry Diamonds
05. Chickn Tribe (Reprise)
06. Egg of Love
07. China Must Win
08. The Elevational Love of Frank Zappa
09. Cloud Over Athens

Line-up: 
Angelos Krallis: Lead Vocals,Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Banjo, Electric Piano, Electric Organ, Synthesiser
Pantelis Karasevdas: Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals, Piano
Christos Bekiris: Guitars, Backing Vocals, String Machine
Axios Zafeirakos: Electric Bass, Double Bass, Backing Vocals
Don Stavrinos: Horns, Backing Vocals, Percussion
Haris Neilas: Percussion, Backing Vocals, Electric Sitar
Christina Koziraki, Celia Cioufi & Maria Olga Parasiri: Backing Vocals
Noda Pappas: Electric Guitar on “Is this Cher?”
Gus Boggar: Electric Guitar on “Too Many Parables”

Description/Reviews: 

WOWSERS! consists of 9 electric elegies that unfold their agitated collective psyche. This is what taking the effect and making it the cause for a long while sounds like when electrified.
CHICKN, having released a double LP, an EP, three singles and a half a dozen of bootlegs, decided to embrace their inner voice and capture the essence of their in-vivo interaction into this Acid Glam record.
Sunny and colorful, sometimes comforting – some times alarming, always fast and bulbous, WOWSERS! oozes with West-Coast vibes and proto-punk explosions. Enchanting space-outs rise like monuments of absence, carefully balanced by meteoric freakouts that insist on your presence. In the meantime, a fine blend of lyrical horns, alluring percussion, whimsical drumming, arcade guitar riffs, sensual basslines and ankle-played keyboards will chaperon you in this 38 minute trip.

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Chickn "Wowsers!"

Country: Greece
Genre(s): Psychedelic, Retro, Prog Related Rock
Label: Inner Ear Records INN157L
Format: vinyl+CD, digital
Release date: May 11, 2018
Tracklist: 
01. Invocation
02. Is This Cher
03. Too Many Parables
04. I Cry Diamonds
05. Chickn Tribe (Reprise)
06. Egg of Love
07. China Must Win
08. The Elevational Love of Frank Zappa
09. Cloud Over Athens

Line-up: 
Angelos Krallis: Lead Vocals,Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Banjo, Electric Piano, Electric Organ, Synthesiser
Pantelis Karasevdas: Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals, Piano
Christos Bekiris: Guitars, Backing Vocals, String Machine
Axios Zafeirakos: Electric Bass, Double Bass, Backing Vocals
Don Stavrinos: Horns, Backing Vocals, Percussion
Haris Neilas: Percussion, Backing Vocals, Electric Sitar
Christina Koziraki, Celia Cioufi & Maria Olga Parasiri: Backing Vocals
Noda Pappas: Electric Guitar on “Is this Cher?”
Gus Boggar: Electric Guitar on “Too Many Parables”

Description/Reviews: 

WOWSERS! consists of 9 electric elegies that unfold their agitated collective psyche. This is what taking the effect and making it the cause for a long while sounds like when electrified.
CHICKN, having released a double LP, an EP, three singles and a half a dozen of bootlegs, decided to embrace their inner voice and capture the essence of their in-vivo interaction into this Acid Glam record.
Sunny and colorful, sometimes comforting – some times alarming, always fast and bulbous, WOWSERS! oozes with West-Coast vibes and proto-punk explosions. Enchanting space-outs rise like monuments of absence, carefully balanced by meteoric freakouts that insist on your presence. In the meantime, a fine blend of lyrical horns, alluring percussion, whimsical drumming, arcade guitar riffs, sensual basslines and ankle-played keyboards will chaperon you in this 38 minute trip.

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Chickn "Chickn"

Country: Greece
Genre(s): Ethnic, Psychedelic, Space Rock, Retro Prog
Label: Inner Ear Records
Format: vinyl+CD, digital
Release date: October 10, 2016
Tracklist: 
1.Chickn Tribe
2.Omens
3.Aleppo / Jam 06:51
4.Modular Prayer
5.Taqsim / Rhy / Tavk Hava
6.Forget / Small Things
7.Articulation
8.Modular Prayer (Reprise)
9.Prelude οn Mary
10.Shifting Time Blues / Akhedia

Line-up: 
Angelos Krallis - Vocals (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10), Electric Guitar (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8,10), Acoustic Guitar (4,10), Resonator Guitar (6,10), Electric Sitar (4, 5, 6, 8,10), Lute (5), Synths: All Tracks, Organs and various keys (4, 6, 9,10), Udu (5), Tsambouna (8), Drum Machine (7), Steel drum (7)
Evangelos Aslanides - Drums (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8,10), Percussion (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8,10), Djebmbe (2, 5, 6), Darbuka (2, 5), Bendir (5)
Pantelis Karasevdas - Drums (6), Percussion (1, 2, 3, 5, 8,10), Congas (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8,10), Djembe (3, 4, 8,10)
Axios Zafeirakos - Bass (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8,10)
Konstantinos Protopappas - Electric Guitar (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8,10)
Haris Neilas - Darbuka (5, 2), Congas (6), Cowbell (3)
Andreas Kiltsiksis - Amane (5), Udu (5)
Georgios Dimakis - Additional Vocals (2, 3), Additional Synths (8)
Ioannis Karras - Saxophone (8,10)

Description/Reviews: 

Chickn is a modular music band, bringing together an assemblage of musicians whose primary work has been influenced by Eastern Mediterranean music, psyched-out space-rock and early progressive rock.
The  main  pillars  of  Chickn's  music  is  improvisation,  as well  as  their  tendency  to  embrace  the unexpected. They  have  developed  a  large  body  of  artists that  they  work  with  and  as  a  result their liquid line-up gets temporarily solidified by their current expressive needs. 

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Gravitysays_i "Quantum Unknown"

Country: Greece
Genre(s): Progressive Rock, Ambient, Ethnic
Label: Inner Ear Records
Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Release date: September 16, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. More Than A Matter Of Instict (6:17)
2. Of Woe / Migratory Birds (9:45)
3. Dowser (3:16)
4. An Ivory Heart (5:16)
5. Every Man (6:10)
6. Quantum Unknown (Riveted Eye) (9:45)

Total Time 40:29

Line-up: 
Manos Paterakis - vocals, santur, guitar
Nikos Retsos - drums, synths
Mampre Kasardjian - bass
Nikos Sotiropoulos - guitar
Costas Stergiou - keyboards
Vangelis Κatsarelis - trumpet
    With
Alekos Georgoulopoulos – guitar
George Kontogiannis – Cretan lyra
Peggy Zarrou – vocals

Description/Reviews: 

With two albums under their belt, their music stretches from progressive rock & ambient to Mediterranean with a traditional eastern flair (give attention to the sound of the traditional instrument "Santur"). This time, the band's themes play with every knowledgeable form in an attempt to escape from the human gaze itself. Music-wise the experimental and electronic element replaces the electric effusions of their previous work.

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Quantum Unknown (Riveted Eye)

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Baby Guru "Marginalia"

Country: Greece
Sub Genre: Psychedelic, Pop, Electronica, Krautrock
Label: Inner Ear Records
Release date: March 24, 2014
Tracklist: 
01 Especially When
02 Baby You're So Weird
03 Exegesis
04 Marginalia
05 Behaviour
06 Explain
07 We Need Some Space
08 Two Days Ago
09 Turtle Hearts
10 Anticipation
11 Most of the Times

Line-up: 
Prins Obi
King Elephant
Sir Kosmiche

Description/Reviews: 

One year and a half after the European release of “Pieces” the best psych band in Greece return with their luggage full of enthusiastic reviews, unforgettable experiences from their live performances in Europe but most of all full of brand new music. Their third album “Marginalia” is set for release across Europe in March 24 and is the band's most ambitious work to date.“Marginalia” doesn’t thrive in the margins, but justifies its title with a never-ending expansion of the mind and body through its musical substance. Prins Obi, King Elephant and Sir Kosmiche are, as always, the exclusive creators of the album (composition, production, arrangement, recording) and with the help of the band’s unofficial fourth member (Christina) they attempt to fuse high quality pop with synthesizer music and riveting grooves. 11 tracks create a cohesive whole, brimming with lyricism, electrifying, atmospheric sounds and irresistible hooks. Among them a little surprise: the first Baby Guru track sung in their native language.

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We need some Space

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Electric Litany "Enduring Days You Will Overcome"

Country: UK
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock
Label: Inner Ear Records
Release date: February 21, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Intro 02:25
2. Silence 03:43
3. Hold Fast To Dreams 03:43
4. The Soul Remembers Everything 03:03
5. Vanish 04:25
6. Name 05:48
7. Enduring Days You Will Overcome 07:39
8. In The Morning 04:36
9. Feather Of Ecstasy 04:18
10. Empty Sea 03:41
11. You Make Me Feel 05:05
12. Farewell (To Setting Flowers) 03:37

Line-up: 
Alexandros Miaris : Guitars, piano, synths, cello, voices
Richard Simic : Drums, percussion,
Alex Deligiannidis : Bass
Benjamin Prince : Keys

Description/Reviews: 

"Enduring Days You Will Overcome" is the fruit of a difficult and stagnant era. However, confirming every word of its title, it’s proof that the conscious perseverance of creation is the solution to overcome the problems and move forward. The album rises from the ashes of a lo-fi world, maintaining the lyricism and the characteristic "haunting" atmosphere of Electric Litany. Drawing inspiration from Beat poetry, new wave, Byzantine music and solid guitars that form a feeling of dark romanticism. Melancholic odes to the perseverance of the human spirit in face of tragedy.   

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Empty Sea

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