Inner Ear Releases INN038 - INN040 - INN041

Evripidis And His Tragedies

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A HEALTHY DOSE OF PAIN

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01 Teeth
02 The Bluest Summer
03 Before it's Over
04 My Little Sister
05 I Always Cry At Weddings
06 Just A Kleenex
07 Waves To Ride
08 Lights Out
09 LS Make the World Go Round
10 A Healthy Dose Of Pain
11 You'll Have To Learn
12 Uncle Drives Again
13 Este Verano (CD Bonus Track)

12" VINYL + CD

€19

INN038L

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Evripidis and his Tragedies’ second album is entitled “A Healthy Dose Of Pain” and one could say it’s a passionate kiss between bohemian Barcelona and classical Athens. The title lent from a Belle & Sebastian lyric is ideal for the 12 small autobiographical “tragedies”, composed and written by Evripidis Sabatis. Despite the generous doses of humor in his lyrics and the happy notes that reveal influences from the 60s pop, each of the tracks contains its own little drama. Along with Evripidis and the 7 Spaniards, already known as Evripidis and his Tragedies, this album features many more talented and interesting musicians from Spain (and other countries). Together they give a taste of polyphonic Barcelona, where the entire album was recorded.

As the needle gently touches the grooves of the first side … the changes brought from life look like teeth that fall out, sometimes to be replaced with new and sometimes to leave a gap between teeth. Summers are carefree and lazy, but with some underlying sadness. Little sisters are victims of torture and cause guilt. Childhood, a treasure lost as soon as hormones invade our lives. Heroes face marriage with sweet anticipation, as happiness seems possible even for a day, but also with skepticism, because deep down they know that nothing lasts forever and that monogamous relationships often fail and get on a ship to escape their old lives, without knowing if they will spend the whole journey drinking at the ship’s decadent disco, or they will descend to an exotic island where a new life is waiting for them. “Ideal” love is a silk handkerchief in the chest pocket, while a one night stand is just a crumpled tissue in the garbage. Passion, a tsunami born in the depths of the ocean, leaves debris but offers brief but memorable moments to those who dare to surf on it. Withering plants on the balcony serve as a substitute for a lost relationship, but also as symbols of the futility of love. Apartments sink in darkness and all sorts of risks lurk in the shadows. Small objects, old tapes, forgotten mobile text messages, even the parent’s hair that turn white…these are all small, healthy doses of pain and favorite dead people return, to get in the car with the living, to make one last ride and to assure that after the end, there is another world, full of celebrations and laughter.

The album “A Healthy Dose Of Pain” is available from Inner Ear, in limited edition vinyl including cd. The cd includes the bonus track “Este Verano (Pensé Que Te Había Perdido Para Siempre)” in Spanish.

Evripidis and his Tragedies are:
Evripidis: vocals, piano, hammond, melotron, melodica, glockenspiel
Abel Puyol: sax, backing vocals
Anie Arjona: backing vocals, percussion, glockenspiel
Cristina de Sola: violin
Jaume Ribell: drums, percussion
Marisol Simó: backing vocals
Marc Ribera: backing vocals, musical saw
Victor Antolin: bass, backing vocals

Your Hand In Mine

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THE GARDEN NOVELS

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01 Foreword
02 Desert Flags
03 Nightly Drums
04 A Boy and the Birds
05 Morning Drums
06 Rest
07 The Tin Can Parade
08 Rosin
09 Afterword

CD SPECIAL EDITION

€18

INN040 

12" VINYL

€18

INN040L 

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Too long this fence door had been shuttered, no voices in or out of it. The wood warped…they saw everything written there. The trees, the watering cans; abandonness, yet a joyful one. How simply, people can leave their stories in this garden, without a single footprint. Local editors had always been ignoring them and most of this material was never published. Ever since, they remained here, within the borders of the fence, and now became “The Garden Novels”.

Time has passed since their first album, “Every Night Dreams”, the original soundtrack for Mikio Naruse’s silent film, which they performed live for the first time on “Independence Days” of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Despite the in between live appearances in Thessaloniki, Athens and Patras, the absence of new recordings was remarkable and the anticipation for their new work more and more intense. Your Hand In Mine (Manos Milonakis, George Papadopoulos) return this autumn with their new album “The Garden Novels”, where through 9 tracks, they undertake a trip into the subconscious, they encounter fictional heroes and listen to their stories.

Once you have experienced the garden, it’s hard to forget. Resident, amateur gardener or just visitor, they all surely have heard at least one story through the silences and sounds of a garden. For the descendants of city blocks the wonders and secrets of the garden, especially when this is located in the heart of the countryside, are even more unusual and sublime, as they reveal a wondrous, unknown universe, while digging up childhood memories of family escapes in the countryside. Other times, this garden can be completely fictional, can change colours and forms in the mind of its creator and may serve as an escape exit, going far beyond the boundaries of the fence. “The Garden Novels” has scents and sounds brought by Your Hand In Mine from their travels in the English and French countryside (it includes several outdoor recordings of natural sounds in the woods and fields), but mostly contains large doses of the village Melissohori of Thessaloniki, where as regular visitors they spend countless hours and days recording and at the same time experiencing all the changes of the garden as the seasons change.

The album title is not metaphorical, the tracks of “The Garden Novels” are accompanied by an equal number of short stories (available in the cd booklet), written as well as the music by the band. Only this time the creative process is reverse from that of the previous album. Instead of a soundtrack “dressing” pre-existing images and words, the music here is the beginning and the words come later to decipher the melodies and sounds and to capture them in pictures. A stroh violin, a trumpet and an analog synth called Persephone have been added to their ever-growing collection of usual and unusual instruments. Also among the instrumental soundscapes, for the first time they produce a song with lyrics (“Nightly Drums”) performed by George Papadopoulos.

The luxurious cloth-bound, special edition cd oozes vintage romanticism, was designed by dB and is influenced by early English printing and old editions of British fairy tales. “The Garden Novels” is out on cd from Inner Ear, and limited edition vinyl (including code for free album download) will follow soon.

Kid Flicks

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HEARTS OF GOLD

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01 Anhkein
02 The Institute
03 A Pleasant Weekend
04 My Own Song
05 Next Boat
06 Sum Of Light
07 Mount Destro

12" WHITE VINYL + CD

€19

INN041 

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We got to know him quite recently (through his gigs and the internet) under the name Flight36-Β. While shortly after boarding he abandoned this name and adopted Kid Flicks, which expresses him better, the flight of “Hearts Of Gold”, after a short delay, is ready to take off.

“Hearts Of Gold” was written between 2008-2010 through experimentation, rehearsals, testing, and changes and is entirely created by Kid Flicks: music, lyrics, musical instruments, singing, recording, mixing, artwork. But its audio and artwork are so colorful and so different from track to track that one would think that an entire team has been recruited for its production. There are several reasons for this… Kid Flicks recorded the album, using his MacBook, in the most unlikely places, e.g. in the car in a field outside Preveza, an evening on a beach, on a boat at sea, in a forest near his house in Lefkada. The mixes also: in friends’ houses, cafés, student dormitories in Munich. Kid Flicks’ stimuli and influences from travel, books, paintings, movies and music are endless. In parallel, his involvement with painting and Twombly’s influence in his notetaking have resulted in an original way of creative expression: the structures of his tracks and lyrics are usually found among notes, rough sketches and smudges, which in someone else’s eyes make no sense at all.

“Hearts Of Gold” is an album that definitely should be heard as loud as possible, ideally with headphones and maybe on an island. Available from Inner Ear in limited edition vinyl including cd.

"The Dive'" killer debut album on CD.

Spinalonga & The Lab Records join forces to release a CD that you will be sorry without .

Get the debut album by The Dive.

"Surviving in Athens, influenced and drenched by city rats and the rancid stench lurking in the atmosphere, the Dive put out their debut album. Dark in its most cheerful of melodies, sonic even in its silence, this album manifests its own, peculiar soundprint…"

They sound like that:

thedive by thedive

We also grabbed the opportunity to restock all the previous releases of The Lab Records on dirt cheap prices:

	Deus Ex Machina - Time Expires (ep)

	Dive , The - The Dive

	Earthbound , The - La Guerra Final

	Earthbound , The - The Earthbound (2007 reissue)

Semen Of The Sun - Radio Adult

The Social End Products – Ego Trip 7' EP Out Now!

"THE SOCIAL END PRODUCTS formed in Nov 2009 in ATHENS / GREECE by Stathis and Manos who were around since the 90’s as members of the legendary WALKING SCREAMS,THE OUTTASITES, THE MEANIE GEANIES and THE INNER MYSTIQUES. The line up was completed with Themos and Dimitris who were playing together in the teen punk LES CHRITES.Having influenced are from artists,like Hasil Adkins, Legendary Sturdust Cowboy, Bo Diddley, Red Crayola, 13th Floor Elevators, Sun Ra, the Back From The Grave compilation series they offer four explosive self penned GARAGE PUNK songs which gonna Psych-Out your brains out!Believe it or not this Single is one of this year’s best releases and that’s because has nothing to do with the usual catchy Garage Punk stuff .The band’s intention to create a personal sound it’s really obvious and the good thing about it is that they have make it .When you’ll listen to this 7” record you’ll find out what makes SOCIAL END PRODUCTS sound so special."


Get Shiny 7' vinyl! (Text from the fine Fuzz Overdose webzine)

Spoken Word Intros

It is an achievement to compile a list of the 10 Best Spoken Word Intros and not include the following:

The Prisoner by Iron Maiden

Black Arrows by Manowar

Cop Killer by by the Body Count

and last but not least anything that starts with 1-2-3-4 by the Ramones

Mimis Plessas Plays Philicorda - 1965 Greek Exotica Holy Grail on Philips!

We do not get the chance to find such gems every other day.That's why we thought that the "Mimis Plessas Plays Philicorda" needs a special mention.One of the few true Greek exotica-related  holy grails, includes  12 tracks of pure aural pleasure.Seven compositions by Mimis Plessas along with one each from Hadjidakis, Theodorakis, Giannidis, Kapnisis & Klavas played in a beautiful relaxed way, having the Philicorda as main instrument, backed up with a full jazz (and beyond) band.

Greek journalist Phontas Troussas has written a beautiful piece regarding the record and it's repress on CD (no reissue on vinyl exists) in his excellent blog and you can read it here (if you get on well with the Greek language!).This blog entry also includes a letter mr. Plessas sent to the journalist after reading the original article on greek top magazine Jazz & Τζαζ plus a couple of pictures showing mr.Plessas with the LP in his hands and the one with the actual Phillicorda we have borrowed and show you here at a lower resolution:

Having said all that, we are proud to have up on auction on our ebay store a fine copy of this rare album.It is in Excellent condition, having just a small tear on the sleeve, as can be shown on the actual pictures  of the item, here:

Vinyl itself is in excellent condition, plays fine with the possibility of some light surface noise, depending on your equipment.Given the facts of the rarity (we only know of two copies that have surfaced on ebay so far) and the excellent condition of the certain item we decided to start it at the lower price we could get and let you decide what it's worth to have it in your precious vinyl collection. Good luck & happy bidding!

The Raindogs! - Unleash The Six - Brand New Album On Vinyl & CD

English text from the fine  World's Appreciated Kitsch blog:

"The Raindogs! is a band based in Athens, Greece and this is their first full length, released in both vinyl and CD formats.

Kostas, who take cares of the trombone in The Raindogs!, was kind enough to give me a copy of the vinyl edition in order to review it in this blog.

First of all, I must say that the artwork of the album is awesome. The LP (black / orange split) comes in a gatefold case, featuring great drawings. It really grabbed my attention.

Musicwise, The Raindogs! deliver 10 songs of modern ska / reggae music, with a lot of funk / rock and some dub elements. It's not easy to make comparisons but I guess that a band like The Slackers is definitely one of their fav and a huge influence for them!

The recordings of the record were done the analog way, while Jim Spliff (The Last Drive) and Panos M. (The Earthbound) took care of the production. The mastering was done in London, UK.

'Unleash the six' was released by the local label The Lab Records (founded by Deus Ex Machina and The Earthbound members). Stavros (Deus Ex Machina) offers guest vocals in the song 'Fight and Get', as well.

I'm really into The Raindogs!. I dare to say that their new record is the soundtrack of the broiling August that is coming our way faster than fast...!

Give it a try and support your local scene!"

Get Limited Edition Vinyl - Get CD

Το κείμενο στα ελληνικά απο την Ελληνική Σκηνή:

"Το νέο άλμπουμ των Raindogs μόλις κυκλοφόρησε από την "The Lab Records" σε βινύλιο και σε cd. Το ιδιαίτερα εντυπωσιακό –και πρωτότυπο για τις μέρες μας- είναι ότι η μπάντα επέλεξε να κάνει αναλογική ηχογράφηση με την χρήση ενός πολυκάναλου μπομπινόφωνου "Otari MX-80"!

 Οι ίδιοι λένε ότι τους... ταλαιπώρησε η διαδικασία και ότι είχαν και καθυστερήσεις εξαιτίας της, αλλά ότι το αποτέλεσμα αξίζει και θα το καταλάβει καλύτερα όποιος το ακούσει σε βινύλιο (περιορισμένη έκδοση 500 αντιτύπων).

 Το "Unleash the Six" ηχογραφήθηκε στα μέσα του περασμένου Ιανουαρίου «σε ένα απομακρυσμένο studio μακριά από τον θόρυβο της πόλης με μπόλικο κρύο και βροχή, το mix έγινε στον ίδιο χώρο με ακόμα περισσότερο κρύο... και στη συνέχεια πέταξε στο βροχερό Λονδίνο για το τελικό στάδιο του mastering» όπως αναφέρουν οι Raindogs στο ενημερωτικό σημείωμα που μας έστειλαν.

Να σημειώσουμε ότι η παραγωγή έγινε από τον Jimmy Spliff (The Last Drive and more) και τον Pano M (The Earthbound) και ότι συμμετέχει στα φωνητικά ενός κομματιού ο Stavros X (Deus Ex Machina) και η Δήμητρα Σιδέρη."