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BEST GREEK RECORD OF THE MONTH (OR IN A WHILE, ACTUALLY) MUST BE THE SPLIT BY MESCALINAEDEN AND EVENTLESS PLOT (GRACE TONE 7"). MESCALINAEDEN HAVE A COOL, GURGLING PSYCHEDELIC SWOOP WITH CAN-LIKE OVERTONES. EVENTLESS PLOT OFFER A MORE CONTEMPORARY SOUND-SHIFTING COLD DUNES OF WOOZE INTERSPERSED WITH THE HACKING COUGH OF ELECTRONICS. NICE SOUNDING STUFF, ESPECIALLY MESCALINAEDEN TRACK.
(THE WIRE MAGAZINE - 2006)
Mescalinaeden's cascading "Gnosso" is a fabric from outer-space, enriched with the sounds of connecting planets --its breathing entity of ambience stutters across the landscape with threaded beats, making for a thoroughly enjoyable listen.
(IglooMag - 19/8/2005)
Mescalinaeden's "Gnosso" is set in down-tempo mode and has great atmosphere and a timid guitar accompanies gentle beats.
(Electronic Desert - 26/8/2005)
Mescalinaeden/Eventless Plot: October/Artificial Embrace Gracetone: Thessaloniki, Greece-based label Gracetone's inaugural outing is an attractively packaged 7-inch 'single' split between Mescalinaeden (Luca Robba, former drummer for bands in Italy and London and now producing electro-acoustic music) and Eventless Plot, a four-piece group making its recording debut. Created entirely on a 4-track analogue tape recorder, Mescalinaeden's "October" awakens from its sniffling slumber by a haunted parade of lockstep clatter and spiraling loops and nightmarish creatures shouting boisterously from the sidelines. Even more harrowing, Eventless Plot's "Artificial Embrace" emerges blanketed in fog, with somber horn tones and then electric bass gradually piercing it before stabbing guitars and decapitating breaks annihilate the powerless denizens. Both pieces are strong exercises in dramatic soundscaping that are over too soon. Of course you won't hear these pieces on your local 'Top 40' in this lifetime or any other for that matter but thankfully the 'single' concept is currently broad enough to accommodate scarred landscapes of destroyed ruins too.
(January 2006)
Mescalinaedens track is called October and burns itself through various degrees of intensity from an obtrusive intro to some deep end droning. Luca Robba obviously has a great love for the details of sounds, though he is just as much after effect and size as after substance. Built from various kinds of sounds and noises it pounds and skreeks and thuds all the way through the track. Percussive elements and droning layers keep a good balance here for most of the time to make the track interesting throughout.
(Cracked |Monochrom - January 2006)
Split 7" on a new Greek label. Eventless Plot: a somber fog of ethereal doom finally splintered by electronics at the end, kind of similar to Yellow 6's most supernatural moments. Mescalinaeden: a weird collage of primitive repeating rhythms and backwards tape loops.
(Boa Melody Bar - 2006)