Theodor Kentros
Trystero
Moloton
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2024
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LP
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MOLOTON020LP
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Tracklist
1Caveat Emptor 8:39
2Μαύρη άμμος 6:14
34CH015LM 10:08
4Melt One 2:19
5Trystero 6:47
6Approximately Fifteen.Five Minutes Surrounding F & C 15:11

This debut full-length album by Stockholm-based composer and electroacoustic experimentalist Theodor Kentros, could easily be interpreted as 'just' an assemblage of pieces written between 2021-2024. Named after the paranoid hallucination (or, if said hallucination is real, the underground secret mail system) figuring in the 1966 Thomas Pynchon novel ‘The Crying of Lot 49’, it should rather be perceived as a very distinct, coherent stream running through his output during these years.

The six tracks – ranging in sound and disposition from serialised organ drones constructed to reach screeching and beautiful culminations, to minimalist, repetitive studies in tape loops and string synthesis – were composed and recorded in Stockholm and Visby at different occasions during down-time from his many other projects, which include a myriad of other commissions, co-running labels XKatedral and Kalkatraz Cassettes and touring with punk groups and solo shows.