Larry Gus Announces New Lp 'Years Not Living' Released September 2nd 2013

Inspired by the rural environment of his hometown, multi-instumentalist, singer and producer Panagiotis Melidis (born in Veria, Imathia, Greece) started to write music as Larry Gus* in 2006, soon after the early demise of his previous band Ginger (a bass and drums duo with a sound adjacent to the early 00s Providence scene, paired with HipHop overtones).
 
Initially he spent some time composing production music, and later on he got his name due to some intense and chaotic live performances. What he kept from his first band were the primitive aesthetics of groove based music, along with an obsession for late 60's / early 70's free-jazz. But he went on and combined them with sample-based ethics and crystal clear psychedelic pop melodies, all merged into an infinitely dense amount of layers and polyrhythms.
 
His first album proper, Stitches was released in 2009 for Greek HipHop label Cast-A- Blast and soon after that he resided for a year at the Music Technology Group in Barcelona (Reactable, Freesound) as an intern and postgraduate student. Then he relocated back to Veria to work on his next project, Years Not Living, an album directly inspired by Georges Perec's 1978 book Life: A Users Manual and Lucio Battisti's 1974 album Anima Latina. The YNL sessions had 85 songs as a result, and the whole process, set amidst financial crisis' Greece was documented and will be part of the feature film My Friend Larry Gus (directed by VasilisKatsoupis), to be released in 2013.
 
Meanwhile, among many remixes, he also put out the mini-album 24 Beats (July '11) on the Lefse Records imprint, Waaga. Most recently, he released Silent Congas via DFA Records, a 9 song taster of the Years Not Living LP, released on the legendary DFA label in September 2013, which is the clearest and most concise apotheosis of Gus' varied talents, combining any number of off-kilter layers and influences into an atmospheric and ridiculously infectious package, recalling everything from 70's jazz to New Age to contemporaries such as Matthew Dear. This is dance music quite unlike anything else.  
 
So far he has performed at various venues around the world, and has also participated at the 2nd Athens Biennial and 2nd Nuit Blanche à Metz. Panagiotis currently lives and works in Milano, Italy, still carrying certain obsessions with Jorge Luis Borges, Georges Perec, LucioBattisti, Woody Allen and Otis Jackson Jr.
 
TRACKLISTING
 
1.With All Your Eyes Look
2.The Night Patrols (A Man Asleep)
3.Taxonomies
4.The Sun Plagues
5.The Eternal and the Ephemeral
6.Merely Today
7.Pericles
8.In Violet Ink (Misprints)
9.The Percival Seascapes
10.Paths Laid Down

MORE INFORMATION:

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