T, by moody alien

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Book/Magazine + Digital Album
The "T" digital album + the Takis Kalamarakis novel "Το Κενό / The Blank" -a minimalistic novel that combines noir with dark comedy (GR or ENG, 60 pages 16.4 x 24 cm. Paperback. Printed on Fedrigoni papers).
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ΤΑΚΗΣ ΚΑΛΑΜΑΡΑΚΗΣ: ΤΟ ΚΕΝΟ (ΜΙΑ ΜΥΣΤΗΡΙΑ ΝΟΥΒΕΛΑ)
-Είναι κανείς εδώ; έκανε δισταχτικά ο Τζέσι.
Τη δεύτερη φορά που το είπε –πιο δυνατά– άκουσε κάτι από μέσα κι έπειτα είδε να ξεπροβάλει μια άσχημη γυναίκα με γκρίζα μαλλιά, καμιά πενηνταριά χρόνια στην πλάτη της κι άλλες τόσες τρίχες στο πάνω χείλος.
-Θέλω ένα δωμάτιο, της είπε
κι εκείνη δεν έδειξε κανένα τρομερό ενδιαφέρον γι’ αυτό, αλλά του έδωσε πάντως ένα κλειδί. Τώρα το θυμόταν ξεκάθαρα πως έτσι είχε γίνει
ενώ η βροχή δυνάμωνε πάλι
και τα τζάμια είχαν θαμπώσει. Ο Τζέσι χαμογέλασε και πυκνός καπνός βγήκε απ’ τα ρουθούνια του. Ο καπνός προσέκρουσε στο τζάμι, που απ’ την άλλη πλευρά του δεχόταν μια ανελέητη υγρή επίθεση. Όλ’ αυτά θύμιζαν μια φάρσα κι ο Τζέσι με δυσκολία κατάφερε να πνίξει έναν κόμπο γέλιου που λύθηκε στο στήθος του.
Δεν είχε λόγο –να τον πνίξει. Γι’ αυτό δυσκολεύτηκε. Έλειπε το κίνητρο.
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TAKIS KALAMARAKIS: THE BLANK (A MYSTERIOUS NOVEL)
-Anyone here? Jesse hesitantly went.
The second time he said it –louder– he heard something from inside and then saw a woman with grey hair, about fifty years on her back and as many hairs on her upper lip rear her ugly head.
-I want a room, he told her
and she showed no particular interest in that, but gave him a key anyway. Now he remembered clearly that’s how it had taken place
as the rain was growing stronger again
and the windows were all steamed up. Jesse smiled and thick smoke came out of his nostrils. The smoke hit against the glass pane, which was under a ruthless and humid attack on its other side. All this resembled some kind of prank and Jesse could barely repress a knot of laughter that got untied in his chest.
He had no reason to –repress it. That’s why it was hard. The motive was missing.

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9 tracks, 68' + the Takis Kalamarakis novel "Το Κενό / The Blank" in PDF format (in both GR and ENG).

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1.	Axolotl 03:58		buy track
2.	The Gift 04:51		buy track
3.	(Two or Three) Thangs 15:06	info	buy track
4.	Other Than That 05:48		buy track
5.	On the Boat to Out There 10:11		buy track
6.	A Thought That Thought 07:54	info	buy track
7.	Saturn the Taciturn 05:45		buy track
8.	Lament: Tearful, Short, Barcoded 02:32	info	buy track
9.	Sub.Terra.Néant 12:02	info	buy track

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ABOUT THE ALBUM:
T, the 20th letter of the Latin alphabet, is the symbol for "True" in logic & the usual symbol for period, the reciprocal of frequency; the symbol for Tesla, the SI unit of magnetic field; the symbol for Tera- (as in one trillion); (t is) the SI symbol for tonne or metric ton & the usual symbol for time.
T is also the middle letter in "soundTracks" and the initial letter of my poor ghost of a mother's name (as well as my own)...

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Written in 2000 and marking a significant turning point in my writing process, this minimalistic "mysterious novel" combines elements of noir with (existential) dark comedy and could perhaps be seen as a kind of (Greek) prequel to my play "The Flame Within".

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released April 26, 2024

all instruments, sounds, effects, editing, processing, recording, mixing, mastering, artwork by moody alien (unless otherwise noted).

*hang drum samples used for "(Two or Three) Thangs" courtesy of ECUT @ ecut.bandcamp.com
**thanks to those who helped with some of the other idiophones' recordings!
***thanks to Fotini Filoxenidou (layout/design) @ www.instagram.com/fotinifiloxenidou and Kevin R. Seward (proofreading/editing of the English translation) @ krseward.bandcamp.com for their help with the book!

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moody alien Θεσσαλονίκη, Greece

moody (adj.): [...] subject to sharply varying moods [...]

alien (n.): [...] anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found [...]

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