Lunar Miasma
The Gateway

LA RECENSIONE

The "Digitalis ltd" is one of those charming record labels that entertains and enjoys distributing colorful and diverse audio cassettes on the market.
Beware: once you get into this groove, quitting becomes tough. Those multicolored tapes can become more attractive than a video poker machine in a miniskirt, remember that.
 
The medium is obsolete, and sufficiently dated to stir attention and curiosity among fetishists and others.
After the purchase, wild downloading kicks off: the music they sell you can't be listened to just like that. I mean: I can, and maybe you can too, but 90% of today’s youngsters can't. It's been years since Sony built a Walkman. And I haven't seen a car cassette player since the last time I rode in a Fiat 127. It belonged to a classmate's brother. Orange with a black stripe on the hood. The 127, not the classmate... Nor the cassette player, that was the usual black box with a red button. Moreover, if it's true that they haven't made them for at least 20 years, it's also likely that all public schools in Italy hide at least 3 or 4 in their archives.

Back to us: fetishism and memories.
I hold the tape in my hands with the same wonder as when, in early '90s, I put on the Steppenwolf Live for the first time, bought by my father to test the CD player.
I couldn't even remember how to insert a cassette... In return, I never forgot that to rewind it you only need a distracted teacher and a pen.

The Lunar Miasma project calls itself easy listening music, it comes from Athens, and behind its noxious name hides the good Panos Alexiades.
This is the second of three tapes released this year (the first came out under "Field Studios," the third for "Sweat Lodge Guru") and the thirteenth work from 2009 to today.
Not just tapes, mind you... CDs and the like too, you name it.

Experiments in synthetic psychedelia; electronics for astronauts; home ambient between Uranus and Saturn.

Low-fi.

That's it.

Seriously, stop.
I don't know how else to describe this stuff.
The music is cool, the packaging is awesome. The micro duration perfect (27').
What more could you want? A taste?

OK?

Then you also say enough to EPs.
Who cares about sound quality when you practically only listen to mp3s anyway.
Rediscover the old.
Demand quality audio cassettes.