To the Mother of Gods

Anatolian Weapons is a guise of DJ electronicist Aggelos Baltas, and Seirios Savvaidis is a singer-songwriter who is much younger than his music sounds. This Greek collaboration takes the psychedelic folk of Savvaidis and subjects it to electronic manipulation, as Baltas shapes the song material, stretching and texturing, splicing and blooming. The resultant atmospherics sound very much like a revivification of some long-forgotten Athens monument of hippy folklore, full of tumbling drums, tambourine, piano, shepherd's bagpipes, Pan's own flutes and a dose of venereal jangle-guitar. The mood is akin to that once created by Popol Vuh, its folk character rooted far back in medieval times.

Although only born in 1982, Savvaidis sounds like a weathered old sage, surrounded by a chorus of chanting acolytes. We visualise nude dancing, bloodletting rituals and natural medicinal infusions. Electronics aid the extension of drone textures, tones hanging in the ether, and it's likely that Baltas has edited drum samples into repetitive forms. The raw matter sounds like it was born in the late 1960s or early 70s, all washed out and hazy, with a sunlight shimmer, ready for the slowest part of the club night.