Savvas Metaxas
Wayward Acorn
*50 copies limited edition* "Wayward Acorn" is a new album by Tim Olive and Savvas Metaxas, out now on Coherent States. This collaboration exemplifies co-creation, as each artist reworks the other's source material through their own creative lens. Specifically, parts 1 & 2 feature a broad palette of tools (electric guitar, radio, modular synthesizer, field recordings) employed by Metaxas to craft his trademark sound over the years, with Olive's concrete and collage logic enriching the textures i…
New Space
*60 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* Granny Records presents New Space by Savvas Metaxas. Eight untitled short stories of modular synthesizers, field recordings and electronics, sitting well on the brinks of pop and abstract jazz aesthetics.
84100
***60 copies*** 84100 is the result of the collaboration between Savvas Metaxas and Renato Grieco. The two of them met on the island of Syros, during the 2018 Syros Sounding Paths Residency. During their stay there the artists had to pursuit and investigate one or more ideas. Metaxas’ focus was mainly around the story and the sounds of the industrial ghost-past of Ermoupolis, while Grieco’s interest was the in the tape, not just as a format but more as a material and dare to say as a somehow liv…
Transmitter
**60 copies** "Despite working often alone, Savvas Metaxas is someone who rather thinks in terms of community and connectivity, who prefers alliances over ego, who is a sound artist as well as a musical activist. Coming from Thessaloniki, Greece, he co-founded Granny Records, puts up local shows, worked with the Goethe Institute, did site-specific sound installations in London, collaborates with other experimentalists like Spyros Emmanouilidis and released brilliant albums on fellow tape travell…
Front / Killing Realism
Limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies. Killing Realism is an electroacoustic composition created from improvised material that was recorded in Thessaloniki and The Hague in 2015. Various percussion sounds, generated from crotales, sound plates, singing bowls, contact mics and bows, are combined with analog synths, electronics and Max/MSP patches.