Hash Jar Tempo is a collaborative musical project between the members of Philadelphia-based psychedelic band Bardo Pond and experimental guitarist and composer Roy Montgomery. The band was founded in March 1995 and have released two albums, Well Oiled and Under Glass, and have never toured. Hash Jar Tempo doesn't punish and haunt so much as it does engagingly trip out, with the right head-nodding pace and echoing chimes that will attract both older stoners and younger shoegaze freaks. There are certainly some pretty intense moments.
Balothizer is an electric power trio founded in London at the late 2016 from bass player and vocalist Pavlos Mavromatakis and lute player Nikos Ziarkas, later the line up was completed with drummer Steve Bongo. The concept was captured due to their shared passion of Cretan music and their need to create something else through this Greek tradition.
The happenings in Greece in recent years are undoubtedly worthy to acknowledge. The underground music scene is boiling and is providing us with thunderous moments. In fact this appears to be a trend in all things art related and I am increasingly impressed by the results. The truth is that during difficult eras like the crisis, art always finds its way to the surface. It represents a whole nation’s voice fighting to resist in a hard and brainwashing fuelled time and well, that is mainly what music is about. Isn’t it?
