MESCALINAEDEN / EVENTLESS PLOT – split

(Gracetone, 7“)

In a perfect world, things would be different. It is fun at times to spend an hour aimlessly thinking about how exactly things would be different in a better world. That might bring you to totally new conclusions about society in general and your place in life in detail. You might even take something valuable away from this hour of pondering, that might be important in your future life, but that is usually quite improbable. You will definitely leave this hour or twenty minutes feeling revived, energized and as if you spent the time doing something valuable for a lot of people. Remember, that as soon as a thought or an idea was spoken, it is bound to come true. The main problem today is that most people are cynics, who are bound to pronounce only the worst ideas and downgrading prophecies, which in a circle of self-fullfillment only lead them to self-righteousness („I told you so“) and further on to even worse visions of the future. Do you believe in this kind of psychic power? Neither do I. But there is some truth to it in the long run. Think about it.

Someone in Greece had a bunch of good ideas and then followed them through. Some of them might have been more complicated and strenuous, like releasing a seven inch split single with two avantgarde musicians, others quite easy even if futile in overall perspective, like sending one of those singles my way. I hope the results work out fine. For my part I am happy for having recieved it. I never heard of Luca Robba (from Italy, he is the person behind Mescalinaeden and drummer for One More Kiss), nor about the experimentalist musician Anastasis Efentakis (from Thesssaloniki, Greece, that Robba worked with) and never of the four piece band Eventless Plot, who are also from Thesssaloniki, Greece, in my live before. But their music is intriguing and hypnotizing, dwelling minimalistic, rich and echo-loaded ambient rhythms that are in some ways way too big for a seven inch single.

Mescalinaeden’s track is called „October“ and burns itself through various degrees of intensity from an obtrusive intro to some deep end droning. Luca Robba obviously has a great love for the details of sounds, though he is just as much after effect and size as after substance. Built from various kinds of sounds and noises it pounds and skreeks and thuds all the way through the track. Percussive elements and droning layers keep a good balance here for most of the time to make the track interesting throughout. „Artificial Embrace“ by Eventless Plot starts more subtle but brings on a pumping and crashing industrial beat in the middle of an otherwise more mildly mannered track, whose beginning and end are even mor epic, laid out drones. Like drifting in an enormous submarine, when suddenly the machine starts to work again. Both tracks retain a special late-industrial atmosphere but with the warmth of analogue recording and after all it might be this mixture that makes this little record stand out from the rest. It will be great to hear more from these musicians in the future.

As debuts this can mention the first recording of Eventless Plot as well as the start of the label. Nicely done – keep up the good work. Single labels with non-commercial directions come and go a lot, I have experienced, but if this only about some guys spending their hard earned cash on this thing because they want to and don’t care if they lose money – and eventually they might be getting back much more in non-material rewards – I am glad to see this going on and on and on. Because this is also a very important ground for experiments and maturation, for new ideas and creativity, and I would miss it a lot. Gracetone’s first seven inch is a good example for that.