EDO/EKEI. Logout

Logout first found its way to these pages with a record called N91°. Logout's new album's title is less mysterious. At least for those able to read and understand Greek. Reading capital letters I come a long way in reading, which helps when driving e.g., not where it comes to understanding. EDO/EKEI translates into Here/There, a title that could perhaps be understood in the context of the immigrant, as Logout is a Greek living in Amsterdam. An immigrant is always someone who lives in between the here and there, sometimes caught in the middle of those two worlds.

With EDO/EKEI Logout again makes a subdued album. Don't expect any great exuberant statements from this artist. His lyrics, all in his mother tongue, are long drawn out, accompanied by slow playing on keyboards and some vague percussion that at times almost seems more intent on derailing the meandering synths than really add to the whole. Something that gets noticed, despite being soft and, in essence, non-obtrusive. A paradoxic as it may sound, this is the effect it has on me.

EDO/EKEI overall has a soothing effect on me. Stripping it all down, my take is that Logout has written traditional Greek songs, that I could have heard over there with all the traditional Greek instruments in place. From that moment on he has stripped everything, maybe only mentally, traditional and started to craft his own take on traditional Greek sounds with the aid of his keyboards and synthesizers. The result is a totally new kind of traditional Greek songs, the kind that makes the country ready for a new musical era.

Despite the fact that I can only pick out a word here or there, it is not hard to connect to the songs. For that to happen EDO/EKEI presents the right moods. The melancholy mood and the slow moving music creating that mood suck me into the album and invite me to listen to all the small changes taking place. No, I will not play this album on a daily basis, but certainly on a regular basis.

After reviewing Greek artists and bands by way of the Athens based Inner Ear Records label in the past two years, now I'm listening to Greek songs through the Dutch Tiny Room Records label. And why not? In the E.U. borders do not really exist any more. Simply a good thing and not just in music. EDO/EKEI and Logout underscore that quite nicely.

Wo.

You can listen to and order EDO/EKEI here:

https://tinyroomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/-

or listen to our Spotify Playlist to find out what we are writing about:

https://open.spotify.com/user/glazu53/playlist/6R9FgPd2btrMuMaIrYeCh6?si=KI6LzLaAS5K-wsez5oSO2g