Lunar Miasma - Levitation

New C30 from our boy in Greece LUNAR MIASMA (aka Panos Alexiadis) - for fans of the synthesizer and other amplified keyboard instruments - 3 really great (structured!) tracks - tapes are pro-duped as always - anyway, enough snake oil stuff, just check out the sound samples:

http://soundcloud.com/munitionsfamily/ and his myspace is right here: http://www.myspace.com/lunarmiasma

This is what other people have been sayin about Panos:

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LUNAR MIASMA - CRYSTAL COVERED

"Crystal Covered is an extremely trippy set by Panos Alexiadis—not that that should come as too much of a surprise given his choice of moniker—Lunar Miasma—and the album's ultra-psychedelic cover imagery. Alexiadis uses analog synths, guitars, and fx to create swirling masses of disorientating design that make one feel as if one is plunging beyond the furthest reaches of space. Throughout the fifty-two-minute recording, melodic patterns, electrical transmissions, and analog squeals careen through the cosmos in oceanic tracks that unfold in the slowest of motion. Track titles such as “Purple Oscillator” convey the material's intergalactic character, but one would easily recognize it as such had Alexiadis dispensed with titles altogether. Slow-motion chords and tones shimmer and collide during “Circle Mountain” while high-pitched, dental drill-like squeals sputter alongside droning organ chords in “A Thousand Suns.” The atmosphere turns a bit clearer in the closing “Cream,” which allows the movements of its astral glissandi to be monitored more peacefully. Against a deep space backdrop, tones plummet and swoop as gracefully as falling stars. The six pieces on Lunar Miasma's Crystal Covered are like different snapshots of a celestial nebula, with some of them capturing its peaceful side and others its more turbulent." Textura

"From Greece, Panos Alexiadis (aka Lunar Miasma) has been chipping-away at cosmic drones akin to the revivalist works of the US Midwest (Emeralds, for a start), yet is now breaching the divide thanks to the proper CD release of ‘Crystal Covered’ by France’s Basses Frequencies label. With six tracks in under an hour, the disc does not wander in traditional drone style, but rather compresses tones back into (nearly-)melodic forms to traverse the continuum into the psychedelic electronics “abstract” music. High-definition sequencing makes for a hyperreal experience like that found in the noise tableau of Daniel Menche and otherwise skirted by fellow analogue fetishists – and this allows the disc to trip over yet another genre barrier, away from sooty “new age revivals” and into the undying soundtrack work of the postmoderns. Full-spectrum analogue frequencies shape the terrain upon which crystalline textures and sharp figures appear, thereby predicating the title, though often with more storied sci-fi (approaching the synthetic world of Pulse Emitter) than the album’s persona would have one believe." Animal Psi

"Lunar Miasma has come on the synthscape scene with a whole host of recent releases. This Greek artist has put out material on great labels such as Small Doses, Ruralfaune, Insult, Reverb Worship, Stunned, and this one on Basses Frequences. LM rides in on a comet full of hums, pulses, weightless tones, blips, bleeps, and laser-like flashes. It definitely reminds me of a space voyage. Like the different sounds of a space craft and the possible moods experienced on the galactic mission. The first track, “The Last Drop of Weight,” sounds like the aura of some special crystals on a distant planet. Light refracting off the smooth surface of the gemstones. Energy radiating from these unqiue power sources. The second track, “Circle Mountain,” with its bleaker subtly fuzzy metallic reverberations makes my imagination picture the spacecraft mining for these crystals to harvest their power. The third title-track, “Crystal Covered,” sounds like the vessel is all loaded with its unique treasure and is getting ready for take off. Amidst the drone textures, there are electronic whines that evoke the ignition of engines for takeoff. The fourth and fifth tracks, “A Purple Oscillator” and “A Thousand Suns” (a Killing Joke reference, perhaps?), remind me of the satisfaction of a successful mission and a return home. They mimic the smooth glide through space. The final track, “Cream,” is a soft touchdown and a sigh of relief for a safe return back. The last half minute of silence that closes the disc is a good way to finish it up. It sums up the trip as a gentle journey. A very pleasant trip through the anti- gravitational heights of drone with some intermittent interplanetary noise thrown in. This one is just as much a nice little gem as the name hints at." Foxy Digitalis

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