Veliotis runs 2:13, an improvised and experimental music club in Athens. As a cellist he has interpreted works by composers including Cardew and Xenakis, and his improvising associates have included trombonist Radu Malfatti, saxophonist John Butcher and harpist Rhodri Davies. Made in June 2003, Radial is a three part solo work, where sustained cello sounds are interspersed with brief interludes of silence. Veliotis used an acoustic instrument and no overdubs, but the resultant piece has layered depth and strange sonorities that suggest careful arrangement and calculated effect. Wood and bowed metal are shrouded in booming feedback-like resonance, timbres suggesting electronics and the audible beating of clustered overtones. The three non-silent parts of Radial are overtly static atmospheres with a busy interior life. -- Julian Cowley