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ARTIST
WILD TERRIER ORCHESTRA
TITLE
Even The Chimera
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
HAUNTER RECORDS
CATALOG #
SPCTR 017LP
SPCTR 017LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
5/20/2022
Even The Chimera
is the debut album by
Wild Terrier Orchestra
, a new project by
Dimitris Papadatos
, aka
Jay Glass Dubs
, based on interchangeability and open improvisation. A newer, freer incarnation of Papadatos's creative intent, the project acts more like an open container of disparate and idiosyncratic contributions from a mutable cast of musicians and artists. Often times not provided according to a pre-planned structure, these contributions are actually more likely to arrive in the form of free improvisations, unconnected musical segments and fragmented splinters of sound. This allows Papadatos to aggregate all the constituent parts according to an intuitive process that bridges between the detailed craft of electronic music production and surrealist techniques such as the cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse) and the cut-up. It's both a harmonization of contrasting tones and a research for commonality within difference, although none of the wild terriers are ever nearly tamed. Unsurprisingly, the main inspiration for this new chapter came from a pinnacle of avantgarde literature: poet
Andreas Embirikos
's, considered Greece's first surrealist and all-out paradoxical figure. Specifically, this release is guided and instigated by his poem "OKTANA", in which Embirikos inscribes a manifesto for a hedonistic utopia years ahead of any accelerationist theories, bursting with contradicting presences and mutating identities. Written in the aftermath of the Greek civil war, the poem calls for a time of eternal poetry and spiritual intoxication that can only be reached through a painful process of violent deconstruction. Thus,
Even The Chimera
was born: a culmination of Papadatos's decades long research on traditional Greek and Byzantine music, free jazz and free improvisation. Firmly spread between two side-long tracks, the contributions of American singer and musician
Cruel Diagonals
on vocal duties as well as Greek artist and musician
Fotini Korre
on ney suggest the existence of a filament that connects the west and the east through the creation of "possible musics". This happens in accordance to Papadatos's practice of a counterfactual approach to the process of what music history dictates. It is also directly shaped by the musician's frequent dwellings in the isle of Cyprus, a land in which the clash of worlds and culture has often taken both violent and beautiful shapes. The long drones, acoustic ghosts, and unbalanced choirs that form the album seem to call from the Mediterranean itself, not only from its history but also from its possible futures and unreal narrations, invoking it as a nexus of diversity and possibility.
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