Mai Mai Mai - Πέτρα (Petra) LP

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▼WV084: Mai Mai Mai - Πέτρα (Petra)

-12" grey marble or black LP
- 4mm spine 350g reverse board cover
- w* obi & 12-page booklet
- limited edition of 220 (grey marble) / 80 (black), only a part available from WV Sorcerer

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This presentation text is quite personal.

This is a very important release of the label, because Mai Mai Mai is one of the musicians that gave a significant influence on this label and my own music project, when I started everything at the very beginning. Around 2015-2016, when I was still searching for my own sound and hesitating if I needed to create several projects to separate the noise/industrial part and the acoustic/ritualistic instrument, I discovered Mai Mai Mai's track "Βάσσαι / Bassae", those enormous sounds and deep tribal rhythms immersed with noise fragments just gave me a glimpse of a new horizon.

I had the chance to discuss with Toni, when I played my solo set for the very first time in Lyon. He told me that the starting point of this mixture of sounds came from his childhood travels with his parents, and often at sea, the sound of the ocean waves comes together with the engine roaring of the huge ship. He doesn’t consider that as a boring noise but a balance between nature and the machine, I guess from that moment, a seed was planted for Mai Mai Mai's sound mechanism.

"Πέτρα" means "stone" in Greek and it's the concept of this album, the stone is intended as a granite memory, and as the spirits of the earth. The first track “Βάσσαι / Bassae” is dedicated to those monolithic structures made of stone, marble, and clay that survive time and carry with them memories and stories.

"Πέτρα (Petra)" was previously released as one-sided LP by CORPOC in 2015, now WV Sorcerer is honored to make the reissue of this pearl from the early days of Mai Mai Mai, along with 3 more tracks on side B, a collection from various compilations and splits.

Each record also includes a 12-page booklet, with photos of the stones collected by the musician on various travels over the years.

Always moving, always different, but always there... bringing back memories, dreams, and ghosts...

A1 Βάσσαι / Bassae 10:35
A2 Πέτρα / Petra 03:36
A3 Πέλαγος / Pelagos 05:14
B1 Κῠ́ᾰνος / Kúanos 03:20
B2 D'Oro e D'Argento 04:13
B3 Anatole 06:04

releases December 31, 2023

Side A

Βάσσαι / Bassae
Πέτρα / Petra
Πέλαγος / Pelagos

Previously released as one-sided LP by CORPOC in 2015
Original artwork by Andreco
12 pages booklet with photos by Ilaria Doimo
Recorded and mixed in Rome by V.Fisik in January 2015

Mai Mai Mai: synths, beats, samples, tapes, voices
Percussions on Πέτρα by Nastro

Side B

Κῠ́ᾰνος / Kúanos
Previously appeared in "Eating From The Orchard Of The Heart - V/A", by Instruments Of Discipline
November 2018

D'Oro e D'Argento
Featuring Tonio Lumare
Previously appeared in "VV/AA - Sinestesia", by Zen Hex
March 2022

Anatole
Previously appeared in the 7" split with Sly & the Family Drone + Dead Neanderthals, by God Unknown Records
May 2018

2023 Edition
Mastered for vinyl by Thomas Stadnicki
Layout by Ruò Tán 若潭

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