The third album of Socos & The Live Project Band was released on March 16th 2009, by puzzlemusik.
It's a double edition containing 1 cd (14 tracks), and 1 dvd (86min).
The album was recorded at the artracks recording studios of George Priniotakis, sound engineering by Alexios Bolpasis, mixing and mastering by George Priniotakis. It was co-produced by socos, Priniotakis and Bolpasis.
Featuring: Dimitris Poulikakos (voice on track no 13, "67 fireworks"), Marios Dapergolas (viola on track no 4, "of time"), Tanya Chousmetoglou (vocals on track no 5, "niveus") and Stylianos Tziritas ( Clarinet on track no 5, "niveus").
The dvd, a production of "sick my duck sound and vision", presents the experimental film "Mescaline" (written and directed by: Socos. Duration 86 minutes.).
The album includes a cover of "Marche Pour la Ceremonie des Turcs" by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a cover "A Ton Etoile" by Noir Desir.
"Objects in mirror are closer than they appear" is distributed by puzzlemusik.
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..."A compilation of real and fictional stories, which compose a puzzle of emotional entrapment, in which modern man lives," says the press release. I do not usually trust press releases, but those of Puzzlemusik are usually quite precise...
...But it's a creature with its own personality, equally abysmal, but with a more closed world. It's an album completely coherent with the strange artwork and the accompanying "Mescaline", and you feel increasingly that it is calling you to look at your own reflection in the mirror, because that's exactly what it is doing, too.
...You might not like the sound of his guitar, but it is his own and unlike any other. You may find his music incomprehensible, but you cannot confuse it with someone else's. And you may dream that your grandparents were not peasants from a village deep in the Greek countryside, but genuine Londoners and therefore be annoyed that Socos speaks (also) Greek - with no embarrassment and, most importantly, depositing verses which show much of what is missing in the contemporary Greek song .... I played the sh*t out of "In The Sun Backs", Dimitris Poulikakos drove me wild as the ultimate rock frontman in "67 Fireworks", I tripped out with "Niveus" (which features his friend and collaborator Stylianos Tziritas on clarinet) and "Of Time" (featuring Marios Dapergolas), I enjoyed the reading of the excellent "A Ton Etoile" by Noir Desir, while two more highlights await you in the cases of "current" and "Gaia"...
Harris Symvoulidis, avopolis.gr
Sound and Vision is "one and the same" in the artistic world of Socos...
...A man who experiences the establishment with an intimate and sometimes painful way, is not driven by issues that warp the achievement of the objective, can only be pregnant with the "same"...
...There is a redemptive pressure in Socos' striving to identify the urgency of the problem. Be it political or social, or ecological - basically the "problem" is one, and relates to the composition of the individual parts on (un)ethical profit - what is needed is awareness of self, towards the destabilization of the dominant language (multilingualism, cries, guffaws, voice changes - everything is there, in the "mirror"). Do we speak to call ... things by their name? The "mirror" says no; sounds familiar...
Fontas Troutsas, Jazz & Jazz
socos & the live project band is by far the best mixer for the independent Greek scene. The cryptic cover of the cd / dvd "objects in mirror are closer than they appear", an icy mirror, with the title reversed (without a shred of information!) hides no youthful pursuits but rather the laborious achievement of mature expression in the "post-" landscape: post-rock, post-punk, post-new wave, post-electronica, and so on. The daddy of all Greek rockers, Dimitris Poulikakos appears as a tribute (a tribute to his intelligence, I mean... for his healthy instincts) while the double shots in the dvd rush into homes and reveal weaknesses and hypocrisy. The songs speak Greek, English and French...
A musical suggestion beyond the "village main square" is here. Is anyone listening?
George Allamanis