Magnetic Loops II, by SAVVAS METAXAS

Magnetic Loops II

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"This album came as a result of a need to do things with a smaller more minimal set-up. After trying a few different configurations in the studio, my steps led me to the Revox A-77 tape machine. My first attempts were to use a stack of old tapes wth folk Dutch songs (that came with the Revox, since I bought it from Rotterdam) and cut loops out of them and then randomly play them back and manipulate them.

After doing this for a couple of days I found myself again in a position of wanting to reduce sounds and elements from these recordings. During a break from this process, I decided to record a tape loop with a slow sequencer from a synthesizer, just for fun and to clear my head. This is how the first track of this album was created. I spent an entire day listening back to this tape loop and by the end of the day I had given shape to the track by playing the same loop in a different speed and adding small bits of sound towards the end.

In the next few days, the initial project with the existing Dutch tapes drifted away, and I ended up creating the Magnetic Loops II album. (The first Magnetic Loops was released by Falt, France a year ago)."

—Savvas Metaxas, Thessaloniki, March 2022  

For fans of meditative and looping drone works by William Basinski, Tu M', Triac, Pinkcourtesyphone, and LINE's recent release Nostalgia (circa 1987) by Miguel Angel Tolosa. 

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Savvas Metaxas is a Greek musician and sound artist who works in the fields of experimental music, field recordings, and modular synthesis.

Counting more that 15 releases among vinyls, CD’s and cassettes, his music has been released in multiple labels such as Granny Records, Glistening Examples, More Mars, Phinery, Superpang, Otomatik Muziek, Coherent States, Falt and has performed in numerous concerts hosted in experimental art spaces, museums, galleries and venues. His latest album, entitled "The Moral of the Parable is Plain” has been released in 2021 from 'Sounds Againds Humanity''

In 2008 he co-founded the Granny Records label, focusing in publishing works by contemporary electronic musicians, moving in the range of free improvisation, noise, electroacoustic composition and contemporary electronica. Along with the operation of the label, he co-organized and co-curated events in various spaces in Thessaloniki inviting numerous European and Greek artists. Since 2021 he is co-running Dasa Tapes.

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released June 3, 2022

Recorded/Mixed by Savvas Metaxas
Mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi
Cover photo by Savvas Metaxas

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Richard Chartier's LINE publishes editions documenting compositional & installation works by international sound artists & composers exploring the aesthetics of minimalism.

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