This album is the outcome of the Endgame Sessions, which were exclusively presented by web radio “Random Access Radio”. Project commenced at the beginning of the quarantine period in Greece on March 2020 and continued throughout the year. While working on the fourth and last episode, already was completing the final touches for this album.
Prima Materia
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Samuel Beckett’s play “ENDGAME”. The main focus was to find the main themes and atmosphere so to have an “absurd” approach of the quarantine experience and the whole pandemic situation. Beckett’s instructions are almost sacred for many artists but didn’t intent to find the freedom within them. Nevertheless, this project was not realized as a theater performance. I had to follow my own instinct during the process, even if I would be totally “wrong” in this search.
Another main element was the field recordings within the house, trying to define sound-wise the quarantine experience. The sound of the birds during different times within a day be it early morning or late evening recorded at the balcony. The sound of a storm or heavy rain. The sound of my pet cat chasing a locust or even the recording of a distant chant from a Christian orthodox church nearby.
Synchronicity
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While the recordings were used at first and till the end of the third session, for defining isolation, I later realize that they were defining also another very personal aspect of the project. They reflect my relationship with my father. He was the lawful owner of the house. After that realization, I began the process of transferring the ownership as a kind of “psychomagic” act (for the lovers of the “Jodorowsk-ian” psychotherapeutic methods).
Connecting The Dots
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As concerns the selection phase for the album, I chose the tracks that were close to the atmosphere or the ideas I wanted to present throughout; the final artistic approach. How one may connect the pandemic and quarantine experience with the play ENDGAME and the final outcome will be a therapeutic process or act?
The connective element is the subconscious, the underflow of our every-day life. In this way, “endgame” becomes a kind of archetype used for therapy. The key element for transcendence from the very close limits that family mechanisms oppose to people. More specifically how relationships with our family affect and limit our creativity, our sexuality, our conscious manhood/womanhood. Like when Clov was moving Hamm on his wheelchair within the house limits. For Hamm to feel the walls of the house. Or the obsession of his to be placed at the exact center of the room. An impulse to move only within the limits that family has provided for our own “protection”. An urge, though, that leaves us with a feeling of emptiness and doesn’t let us see the whole WORLD outside of these limits.
Thus, ENDGAME here is to find freedom and release by killing the “father”, in a more existential way, at a more subconscious level. Without any “family court” nor criticism or guilts. With this process one is introduced to the “madman” and freeing oneself from the “illimits”. Succeeding radical transformation after “death”. Not physical death but an actual soul cleansing. In that sense, we may even enjoy the game of end, or of ending things. A vital step for our therapy, revelation, connection with the COSMOS. This was my personal trip and here is the album for you to “dig” in.
credits
released December 1, 2020
Conceived and created by Rendeece
Mastering at Digging Sounds studio
If I Could Sleep My Eyes Would See remix, produced and mastered by Temple Music
Artwork: Original photo & editing by Rendeece
Final editing: Kostas Kosnetzof
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