drog_a_tek

The audiovisual collective of drog_A_tek, after the awarded soundtrack “Homeland” (best music for film award from the Hellenic Film Academy), returns with a new project titled “Too Late To Care”.

“Too Late To Care” contains recordings made in Athens from 2005 to 2011 and is characterized by the vibrancy, improvisation and electricism of each moment that drog_A_tek’s live performances are made of. Its sounds are sometimes dark, underground and hypnotic, other times loud and aggressive and the few verses, with or without meaning, often function as a mantra. “Too Late To Care” is the soundtrack of the anonymous feelings of hopelessness, rejection, failure. A brief narrative of resignation from life. A product of deep and persistent sadness that puts the soul under constant pressure, it leads the listening in a world of rubble and ruins of everything beautiful. The recordings of the album are an open and unfinished book, waiting to be filled with fresh notes of loneliness and rotten memories that make you sink into pain. Day by day, more and more people join the troops serving a common cause of decay, to the extent that this is able to operate by itself. While recorded moments will be lost/worn forever, this doesn’t mean that things can get better. “Too Late To Care” is a black album.

Available from Inner Ear in limited edition vinyl, including cd.

Ιnner Ear returns to the world of cinema with the release of its second soundtrack, signed by drog_A_tek. This is the original music score of “Homeland”, the much talked about film by Syllas Tzoumerkas that has received a warm welcome from audience and crititcs both in the greek cinemas and at its world premier during the Critic’s Week of the 67th Venice IFF Festival (Settimana Internazionale della Critica).

drog_A_tek is a flexible musical band re-inventing itself at each meeting. A mixed and eclectic set of improvisation disorder, formed in 2001 in Athens, they record moments in real-time and produce temporary audiovisual environments. They use a variety of media, constantly expanding (objects, analogue and digital musical instruments, typewriters, frequencies, images, recording archives/waste)

“Homeland” combines atmospheric cinematic themes and urban soundscapes – drog_A_tek master this genre – with the charming harmony of chaos and an intense feel of identity that has to do not just with the geographical homeland but also with the internal geography of the individual.