Parallel Worlds – Plector (Album – DiN)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Electro, Cinematic.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: “Plector” is one more album released by Greek composer Bakis Sirros. The work was released late 2022 and features eight tracks.
Content: “Plector” is a new piece of retro-electronics getting us back to the origins of the genre. Parallel Worlds deals with pure Ambient music composed by the magic of good-old analogue gear becoming an expert with modular equipment. The work is totally space-like although featuring a few darker parts.
+ + + : Parallel Worlds isn’t an emulation of pioneers in this music genre but an artist who hold on the spirits of those famous artists. He in a way ‘thinks’ and ‘operates’ like them; time isn’t important but only the spirit counts. I like this space travel and I’ve a preference for the ’black holes’ in it -which stand to me as the darker passages. “Dysfunction” is a significant track.
– – – : I regret some tracks are maybe a little too short.
Conclusion: Parallel Worlds accomplished with “Plector” a new ‘retro-futuristic’ work.
Best songs: “Dysfunction”, “Angles”.
Rate: 7.
Artist: www.parallel-worlds-music.com / www.facebook.com/parallelworldsmusic
Label: https://din.org.uk / www.facebook.com/theianboddy
About Parallel Worlds
Parallel Worlds is the main project of Greek musician Bakis Sirros, active in the Greek electronic music scene since 1998. His debut solo release was “Obsessive Surrealism” (DiN26) in 2007, followed by “Shade” (DiN32) and later “Fragmented” (DiN83), all issued on Ian Boddy’s UK label DiN. Sirros has also released collaborative albums with Boddy, and worked with Alio Die, Ingo Zobel, and Steve Law. “Plector” (DiN76) was released in late 2022. Sirros had earlier released “Existence” on the Greek label rubber-records in December 2018.
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