Spyros Polychronopoulos and Jannis Anastasakis - Nyfida (2024)

There is a Greek island called Lesbos, the island of an archaic poet, Sappho.

In July 2021 Spyros Polychronopoulos and Jannis Anastasakis, moved most of their studio equipment and musical instruments to a small house next to the beach to record an album. The exact location the recordings took place was a house in an uninhabited village in the gulf of Kalloni called Nyfida.

This house was where Spyros’s grandparents use to live. All the walls were covered by old pictures and embroideries made by them. This house affected how this music was made in very direct ways, in fact some of the sounds were made by using the props found in the premises: old materials such as parts of a loom, old sewing machines and more modern ones including a blender and a fridgeall found their way into this recording.

After the 2021 summer Spyros worked on the recordings for several weeks shaping the multichannel recordings to form this album. During this process the sounds with the embedded memories were reshaped and reimagined.

This album is the product of the work in two contradictory environments a small beach village during summer and a sprawling city during winter.