Cryo

Description

CRYO is the debut album by the duo consisting of cellist Nikos Veliotis (GR) and pianist Alex Zethson (SE). Veliotis is best known for the pioneering electronic group In Trance 95, MMMD and his collaboration with Giannis Aggelakas of the rock band Tripes. Zethson is a member of groups such as Tropiques by Goran Kajfes, Angles, Fire! Orchestra, Vathres, and more. The duo met in Athens when Tropiques played at the legendary record store, gallery and concert venue Underflow, where Veliotis was invited for an opening solo set. The next day, the duo entered the Athens studio Artracks and created CRYO, composed of two long pieces in which the duo explores slow forms and sound waves, the low register of the piano creating rumbling clouds and shimmering harmonics into which the cello blends and transforms. Together, they crafted organically undulating drone music, intense, heavy and dark. The album was meticulously mastered by Mell Dettmer, who has collaborated with drone metal groups like Earth and Sun O))).