This is the persona of Pilliad Echons, juxtaposing the rough and the smooth in drawn-out sequences like night overlapping into day.
Opening far away on a warped Indonesian island with bells and flutes creating a creepy ambience, this mercurial album by Greece’s Giorgos Axiotis settles in to laze upon Arcadian fields, as the artist distractedly presses one, then another button on a vintage Casiotone keyboard, until becoming excited and agitated as incoming aggressive weather. But the clouds turn into soap bubbles on “Glass Tanned Skin” and Axiotis can lay back in the grass again and watch them play against the blue sky.
The minutes of tick away in what could be a tiny-town toy workshop until an abominable Dr. Phibes organ overwhelms the cheery atmosphere. This is the persona of Pilliad Echons, juxtaposing the rough and the smooth in drawn-out sequences like night overlapping into day.
An eclectic collection of very interesting things done with an unlikely array of instruments including harmonium, ukulele and turntable, Pilliad Echons comes mounted on a screen-printed, laminated cork frame that smells amazing, like an old shoe repair shop.
Pilliad Echons is available on Orila.
