Це відео не доступне.
Перепрошуємо.
Playgrounded - The death of Death (Official Video)
Вставка
- Опубліковано 16 січ 2022
- "The death of Death", the title track of Playgrounded's new album. Out March 18 via Pelagic Records. Order / Stream / Download here: listen.pelagic...
www.playground...
Instagram: / playgroundedofficial
Facebook: / playgrounded
Video Credits:
Director - Dimitris Anagnostou
Director of Photography - Yannis Karabatsos
Written by - Dimitris Anagnostou, Orestis Zafeiriou
Production - Playgrounded
Dancer - Theano Xydia
Acrobat - Yiannna Medvedeva
//
Hailing from Greece, but spending most of their time in the Netherlands, the musical pedigree of the members of PLAYGROUNDED is quite unprecedented in the metal/rock underground. Main composer and producer Orestis Zafeirou is a graduate from the Institute of Sonology of the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, a department focused on electronic music education and production research. Additionally, he works in a synth factory. Vocalist and co-producer Stavros Markonis graduated from the Amsterdam conservatoire and is an award-winning composer for film and TV. Bass player Odysseas Zafeiriou and guitar player Michael Kotsirakis both work as computer engineers, while drummer Giorgos Pouliasis is a graduate from the Rotterdam Conservatoire, as well as a drum teacher and a popular session musician in Greece as well as in the Netherlands.
Starting out in 2007, PLAYGROUNDED have been together for over 15 years, playing both national and international tours, while also opening for bands like Riverside and Anathema and even Nine Inch Nails in Amsterdam. Their first EP Athens (2012, Casket Music) portrays an already mature band playing modern prog rock influenced by Tool and Deftones. Their debut full-length In Time With Gravity (2017) shows the band in full flux, experimenting with extended compositions as well as influences from influential contemporary electronic music acts like Modeselektor and Moderat.
PLAYGROUNDED's sophomore album lives up to the aspiration of its lofty album title. The death of Death is music that results from mastery rather than lacklustre exploration and experimentation. The album was recorded at MD Recording Studios by Nikos Michalodimitrakis, long collaborator of Stavros in film productions. Mixing was handled by C.A.Cederberg (Leprous, Anathema, Shining, and more) in Kristiansand, NO, while the album was mastered by George Tanderø (Madrugada, Satyricon, Jaga Jazzist, and more) in Oslo, NO.
Demonstrating a profound understanding of the glitches they produce, PLAYGROUNDED evoke a sense of the uncanny closely related to the cut-up movie fragments of sound artists like the German Orson Hentschel. “We start with dynamic sound design structures, most of the times initiated by Orestis,” explains guitarist Michael Kotsirakis. “We then work in pairs expanding the musical space and creating variations and flourishes. Sometimes the lyrics and vocals will dictate a change in quality, other times it's one of the instruments. After many ideas are on the table Stavros and Orestis sit together and propose a song structure. After this loop has been repeated over and over we have a very good idea of all the parts. That's when we hit the rehearsal space and refine the details.”
The result is a collection of songs that reveal PLAYGROUNDED as composers in the act of decomposition. The memorable guitar riffs and vocal melodies serve as gateways to a deeper layer of glitchy synth textures and liquid drumming, until the perspective of radical decomposition consumes one whole. “The shortest sound units become extended themes,” explains main composer Orestis Zafeirou. “Steady rhythmical blocks interact with unstable ones. Noise becomes tone and melody. Sonic grains gather to form masses, masses dissolve into a single entity. With every repetition, comes change.”
On The death of Death, PLAYGROUNDED analyse and take apart their surroundings, reducing reality to its smallest components, subsequently converting them into sound to create a new platform - a representation of reality from which they build their artistic vision. In essence The death of Death is dialectical, a study of unity in opposition. A disclosure of contradictory aspects of reality, an expression of their mutual relationship. From these contradictions the band manages to construct a brooding world of dark magnificence. The death of Death has the appeal of a film score that slowly starts to haunt you as the movie progresses. The more you listen to it, the more its sublime beauty becomes apparent.
"THE DEATH OF DEATH" LYRICS:
Noise is the wave
modulating the structure gently
taming the fragile for sometime
until it gets them strong once more
Surrounded by breeze that slithers along its tail
noise dictates their dancing pace
Surrounded by fury, rage and fire
a grain is split by construction
dancing drunk amongst some few
pushed around till it forgets
Pushed around till it detests
noise becomes much louder
slamming the color upon one's thoughts
eating the drive that takes them further
Pushed around till it detests
ready to change the current mesh
One defies the other, to gather and dissolve
One becomes the other, to gather and resolve
Had the pleasure of seeing these guys play live, they were supporting The Ocean. I’ve never seen a crowd stop dead in their tracks while a band was playing before, it was unnervingly beautiful.
Gigachad sings really good
Pelagic Records, you guys have added a phenomenal band to your roster. As for Playgrounded, well-deserved guys. Uniquely beautiful composition. A great future lies ahead.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
One of the best music videos period. Ever. Timeless classic. 100%
Υ Π Ε Ρ Ο Χ Ο
This came on after the Opeth song I was listening to finished and man, what a great recommendation. The production on this is next level. Gonna be checking out more for sure.
Edit: Upon 4 or 5 more listens, this is gonna be a top 10 song for me in 2022.
The way they break tension with more tension is crazy. Song is a vibe man.
what a great recommendation from UA-cam he finally get ma tybe in music
Stuck in my head and on repeat since it was released digitally at midnight. This video is simply beautiful. What a visual and what a killer performance. Can't wait to have the vinyl(s) in my hands.
This has been added to our January playlist
Thank you!
Proud of you guys!! Incredible work, loved how deep and multilayered the production is.
This absolutely fucking OWNS.
My top album of the year!
I hear the legacy of OSI. So dark and so beautiful.
I honestly don't think I have ever found out about some band from Pelagic Records that I didn't absolutely love.
This is incredible, great work!
Love the atmosphere in which it bring us.
Wow, you guys are on Pelagic Records! Nice
Great song and video clip!
Pelagic, when possible please do a European Pelagic Records tour!
Awesome, fellows!
Mesmerizing, already on my top 5
underated! one of the best of the year! keep it up!
Simply superb. Dark and powerful.
What a song ,easily one of the best I ever listened, you guys are absolutly awesome 🔥🌌, I love your magic and unique style 👌
Speechless! Exquisite! Thank you guys.
This is a fantastic track. The dynamics are perfect. Nice one.
smashed it in every way🔥🤘🏼
Discover them on Comendatio music fest in Portugal, man what and amazing and unique sound , already Addicted 😮
1:40 such a good song overall, but this riff melted my face away, !
What a production you guys! Well done!!
Amazing song.
Great stuff!
This is absolutely outstanding, great work!
This track heralds an awesome album ! Great stuff !
Soulful, brilliant and mind blowing! 🖤 now go and take over the world
Saw you live in Rotterdam last Wednesday, that was a very pleasant surprise. You were great, the energy was really very cool.
That was F'n awesome! Bravo 👏 👏 👏
Awesome 👍
Wow ! Never heard of them before, but what a masterpiece ! I need to dig their discography now 🖤
Bravo!! All this feels great!! Respect and good luck!!
Μπράβο παιδιά, ειλικρινά απ'τα καλύτερα αλμπουμ του 22 που έχω ακούσει, και ντόπιο κιόλας !! Sky is the limit !!
Καταπληκτικό album αλλά νιώθω τρομερά ηλίθιος που τόσο καιρό το άκουγα και δεν ήξερα ότι ήταν Έλληνες. Τους εύχομαι τα καλύτερα.
Such a treat to the ears and eyes.
First time hearing this band and I'm thoroughly impressed.
Judging by the name you might also like their previous album: In Time With Gravity
ua-cam.com/video/JQ05iRsLOaY/v-deo.html
@@dionysiosxydias5053 Thanks mate, I'll get on it today.
This sounds so good...🖤🖤🖤
Now it’s time to give the whole new album a spin using kinda good headphones. Can’t wait.
Awesome!
All I can say is WOW
Great job.
A masterpiece.
10/10
Phenomenal.
Great tune
Great song and video
great
Stupendo!
Это очень круто! It is very cool!
Iteresting think.
Шикарно.
Greta album
lyrics please
Very interesting music track. Actually, in Greece we celebrated the death of the death a week ago, in Easter. Christ is risen!