‘stroke by stroke’

July 2011

first solo release in Organized music from Thessaloniki

1. gargaretta 00:12
2. qualia 02:17
3. wolf 01:32
4. clinkers 02:11
5. atonement 04:29
6. intermittent 01:02
7. to detach oneself 01:28
8. unicorn 01:13
9. emergency 04:12
10. each and every 01:59
11. any and all 02:15
12. woody woodpecker 03:15
13. parasite 02:35
14. insect 01:42
15. operators 04:13
16. torrent 03:14
17. dorodango 05:59
18. reattach oneself 02:30
19. the instance 01:30
20. common ground 01:21
21. sleep talk 02:12
TT 51:21

“Caresses and dandles are at play, but you would expect that with a zither – what I was not expecting are the sounds of saxophone multiphonics, granulated train whistles, inchoate radio signals, looped looms and, as baffling as anything heard across the 21 strokes sounded here, unmistakable, sustained sine tones.”

“Chatzigoga has reimagined her chosen instrument and remapped its territories like only a few artists I can conjure up who have produced anything remotely similar to Stroke By Stroke”

press release by Jesse Goin

reviews
“Lazaridou-Chatzigoga verges on song a couple of times (“clinkers” and “woody woodpecker”, both delightful) but for the most part, matters are resolutely abstract, the extended range of the excited zither allowed to shine. Good recording.”
Brian Olewnick at Just Outside

“Across all twenty-one pieces here, from the stray soft chimes of the opening Gargaretta to the beautiful mix of bowed and struck sounds of the longest piece Dorodango, which almost sounds like it is talking to us, the sounds are uniformly gorgeous.”
Richard Pinnell at The Watchful Ear

“Sur les clichés de Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, on voit des drones brisés (oui, on les voit), de petits moteurs lancés à terre, un bras de machine à coudre, un gong qui fait illusion, tout ça amassé de façon artisanale. Le comble est que, derrière tout ça, il y a un sens”
Héctor Cabrero at grisli

John Eyles at All about Jazz
Julien Héraud at Improv Sphere
Thomas Millroth at soundofmusic
scrapyard forecast
musicworm
nowamuzyka
Phontas Troussas at Jazz και Τζαζ
Χάρης Συμβουλίδης
Αργύρης Ζήλος