Aphelion Editions

27/04/2025

APHELION026 - melophobia + occupied head - Panta Rhei, Some Anachronisms
out now on Limited Edition CD-R, K7 and digital formats
https://aphelioneditions.bandcamp.com/album/panta-rhei-some-anachronisms

Regular collaborators, melophobia (Greece) and occupied head (Germany) bring their captivating soundworld to Aphelion Editions for the first time with 'Panta Rhei, Some Anachronisms'. A beautifully detailed 46-minute immersive deep-dive into a space rich in sonics and dramatic compositional textures.

For those wishing to explore further, previous releases by the duo have graced the likes of nostalgie de boue (Côte D'Ivoire), IN:EX (Germany), Ultra Gash Records (Japan) and Default Standard (Greece).

In the artists' own words:

In "Panta Rhei, Some Anachronisms", time flows like a river, winding and meandering through unexpected tributaries where past, present, and future mingle freely. Drawing from the ancient Greek concept of "panta rhei" —meaning "everything flows"— this album is a sonic exploration of moments that refuse to remain fixed in their era, bridging rhythm and ambience in a stream of sonic anachronisms.

Each of the eight tracks unfurls like a scene out of time, echoing forgotten histories and future imaginings. With titles like "Chronotaxis" and "Metachronon / Diachronic," the pieces invite the listener to lose themselves in lush ambient landscapes where unknown whispers merge into experimental electronic improvisations, and modern motifs collide with post industrial beats. These anachronisms reveal a world where the linearity of time dissolves, and all moments coexist, each piece offering a fleeting glimpse of what could have been—or what might still be.

"Panta Rhei, Some Anachronisms" draws listeners into an enigmatic
soundscape where everything changes yet feels strangely familiar,
honoring the beauty of the fleeting, the cyclical, and the eternal. This
is the fifth collaborative album by Melophobia & Occupied Head recorded between summer and autumn of 2024.

8 track album

02/02/2025

New music video for 'Civil Swan' from the recent REPO / TETKOV / LORD album >>>

https://youtu.be/Sqr58yyxGao?si=SQ73AhrXSlXlRwZB

REPO / TETKOV / LORD - Midlands Life Crisis
https://aphelioneditions.bandcamp.com/album/midlands-life-crisis

Taken from the recent REPO / TETKOV / LORD album 'Midlands Life Crisis' released 20th December 2024 on Aphelion editions:https://aphelioneditions.bandcamp.co...

20/12/2024

APHELION025 - REPO / TETKOV / LORD - MIDLANDS LIFE CRISIS
out today 20/12/2024 on Limited Edition CD-R, K7 and digital formats:

https://aphelioneditions.bandcamp.com/album/midlands-life-crisis

REPO / TETKOV / LORD is a collaboration between three members of Bristol’s No-WRock explorers Repo Man (Liam McConaghy - guitar / Anthony Brown - bass / Bojak - sax, violin, vocals) and two members of Exeter’s free jazz trio Capri-Batterie (Matt Lord - sax / Kordian Tetkov - drums). Repo Man’s recent work includes the genre smashed ‘Me Pop Now’ whilst Capri Batterie has free wielding improv pedigree with the collaborative album released with comedian Stewart Lee, ‘Bristol Fashion’.

Brown and Lord initially played in a pre-Repo improvised noise rock action trio in Bristol circa 2007/ 2008, before Lord moved to Exeter. The Repo/Tetkov/Lord project emerged from both sets of musicians playing together in Plymouth during a Repo Man tour in the autumn of 2019.

Midlands Life Crisis is the result of a weekend in January 2020 spent hunkered down at Bristol studio, Joe’s Garage, with recording engineer Joe Garcia (Anta), the musicians laying down track after track of improvisations exploring the multiple intersections between post-punk and free-jazz approaches. Dissected into manageable sluices of ear pleasing tumult, the distinct vocals of Bojak were contributed to further assist in sculpting these Free globules into fibrous meaty chunks.

The clangorous opening to ‘Midlands Life Crisis’ sets the scene with slashing tones and subtle dynamic shifts, before the sound (un)settles into a tense backdrop of whiskey drenched sax solemnities. There is an urgency that separates this from the more fusty musical realms of academic beard scratch.

This urgency ranges from the doomed recitations of ‘The First Six Steps’ to the beat punching aural chopping board of ‘Captain Ditched the Hog’ which moves from Magic Band clatter with a plastic big into a brother Grimm-swing Scott Walker fronting June of 44 hellscape. ‘No Spine’ exhales into the world like a spiritual doom jazz incantation. 'Depot No 90' savagely utilises, and then pyro's the ‘circle in the round’ method. 'Civil Swan' is a nauseous death march brutally stripping the bones out of turn of the century strutting hipJazz. 'Hal Hartley Dinner Party' is a liberatory sax duel with shards of danceable guitar glee dissolving into a final urgent Bojak missive. The set concludes with the reflective slow motion denouement of 'Throbbing Keegan', chords rising and falling to devastating conclusion.

Gestating in a lockdown ether post-recording, and aged in fine barrels of oak casked homebrew, Repo/Tetkov/Lord is finally here to bare its deformed metaphorical torso, and is a fine reflection of the ‘..is always intense’ credos. Dig in.

Repo Man
Capri-batterie
Joe's Garage
Stephen Kerrison
Aphelion Editions

10 track album

11/12/2024

Very excited to share the preorder for this one! >>>

https://aphelioneditions.bandcamp.com/album/midlands-life-crisis

Happy to see out the year 2024 with this special collab a long time in the works between 3 members of Bristol No-WRock explorers, Repo Man and 2 members of Exeter free jazz trio, Capri-batterie.

REPO / TETKOV / LORD arrives with Midlands Life Crisis, built on improvisations exploring the multiple intersections between post-punk and free jazz approaches thusly dissected into manageable sluices of ear pleasing tumult.

Recorded in Jan 2020 pre-lockdown and aged in fine barrels of oak casked homebrew over the next couple of years!

Official release date 20/12/2024. Preorders will ship out early.

Dig in and savour!

Aphelion x