“Grief” is the sophomore album of Farwest Mandolinistic Orchestra, that with their eclectic instrumentation paint a dark, brutal, unforgiving sonic landscape that could remove the listener from its geographic equation at any single moment’s notice.

The tranquil, aching beauty of the album lingers all over the place and evokes the warm texture of a twisted mandolin ensemble with hints of twentieth century avant-gardism.

The whole atmosphere is breathing a somber air, with moody keys and electric custom mandolin creating a cloud of ambient melancholy that drifts hazily through to the back of your mind while the instruments absorb your attention greedily, and deservingly so.

Strangely beautiful and above all adequately introspective “Grief” is a superb sonic adventure featuring a few threatening passages, made of soft industrial-noise use of electric guitar, with the addition of a prepared piano, live electronics, and insistent sound drones. It is solemn build up from a darker mood into something that could be perceived more tripping, yet it still carries a heavy burden that brings it down once again. Not always a happy experience, but certainly, a mesmerizing one.

Sotiris Debonos – midi mandolin and guitar, loops
Stathis Ioannou – acoustic guitar
Konstantinos Tsiolis – prepared piano, viola, synths
Manolis Aggelakis – electric guitar

Recorded by FA.M.OR.
Mixed by Manolis Aggelakis
Mastered by Giannis Christodoulatos at Sweetspot Mastering

https://samedifferencerecords.bandcamp.com/

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https://farwestmandolinisticorchestra.bandcamp.com

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Reviews for CD "Grief"

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“… “Grief” is “heavy”, labyrinthine, suggestive, insidious, noisy, experimental, avant, “hard” ambient, meditative, dark, improv…

… So we have a “naturally” developing sound and especially with the “right” duration… 

…If we consider that the mandolin and the acoustic guitar provide the listener with a more earthy or even pagan dimension, with the electrical and electronic discharges shifting it, at the same time, to the more artificial ones (even “industrial”) environments, what ultimately remains of the “Grief” is precisely this communication. – between something natural and something that goes beyond it, without covering it or canceling it “.

Fontas Trousas at  “Lifo newspaper”

https://www.lifo.gr/culture/music/pente-ellinika-weird-almpoym-tis-same-difference-music

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Music by Fa.M.Or.
Sotiris Debonos: Electric custom mandolin, guitar, live looping, live electronics
Stathis Ioannou: Electric guitar, live electronics
Kostas Tsiolis: Rhodes piano, prepared piano, live electronics

Produced and recorded live at Teflon’s studio by Manolis Aggelakis
Sound editing and mix by Manolis Aggelakis
Mastering by Yiannis Christodoulatos at Sweetspot Studio
Artwork by Ifigenia Vasiliou (www.ifigen.gr)

Released by samedifferencemusic 2019

FAMOR MEMBERS

Stathis Ioannou: el guitar, loops, live elecronics

Kostas Tsiolis: El piano, live elecronics

Sotiris Debonos: El custom Mandolin-guitar, live looping, live elecronics

Manolis Aggelakis: Sound engineering, El guitar

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Reviews for CD "Farwest Mandolinistic Orchestra

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…Fa.M.Or. is properly oriented. They are serious, robust, absolutely fascinating and definitely positioned in modern rock-improv… “.

Fontas Trousas https://diskoryxeion.blogspot.com 9/12/2019

“There are eight pieces here and to be honest I am not sure
what to make of this. There is something to be said for all the variation in approaches here, with
things being delicate and sparse, or rock-like (of course without any drums), or even a bit jazz-like,
such as in the opener ‘Diminuiti’ (even when it hardly qualifies as traditional jazz). With the addition
of the mandolin, there is also an element of folk music in here, cooking up a strange brew of sound…
…You can
surely say they have an original sound, defying easy descriptions. It all made me curious to hear
what they would sound like in concert; how does the diversity of these approaches work out then?
Now, it made me scratch my head and mostly enjoying what I heard.”

Frans de Waard http://www.vitalweekly.net/1208.html

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