Das Album entstand 2023 in Athen, inspiriert durch ein Treffen im legendären, vom Impressario Vassilis Filippakopoulos gegründeten und auch als Label fungierenden Plattenladen und Kulturzentrum Underflow. Die Zusammenarbeit verbindet die vielfältigen musikalischen Hintergründe der Künstler, von Veliotis’ wegweisenden Arbeiten im elektronischen Underground bis zu Zethsons innovativen Beiträgen zur europäischen Jazz- und Experimentalmusikszene. “Cryo” wurde von Mell Dettmer meisterhaft gemastert und erscheint bei Thanatosis Produktion, begleitet von einem eindrucksvollen Coverfoto von Arne Andersson. Es erscheint als LP, CD und Download.

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“A slow transition from playing on my instrument, to play only my electronics. Letting the violin hang there with me on stage, listening to itself. Following how the drones slowly change, minimal repetitions that never stay the same. And you can hear the gallery clearly, it moves sometimes in the background. Noises of moving bodies. The sound of listening bodies, trying to be still, maybe falling asleep shortly in the middle, and you hear how they drop something on the floor. How nice it is to hear the audience.

I would book the big concert hall in my old music college (this building is now destroyed, because the school got a new house), and there I hung my LED light strips and tried out different constellations. The music came after the lights, and reflects the pulsation and upwards going movement of the lights. I also remember that I wanted to create a piece that would erase my own presence on stage, so for the premiere I hung black curtains around the stage and moved behind them together with my friend Sylvain Devaux, and from there we turned the LED lights on and off using remote controls.” (Marta Forsberg)