Serafim Tsotsonis - Believers (2019)

This is ‘Believers’. My 5th solo album that started as an idea sometime on August of 2018 and it was produced in my home studio in Athens. I have ridden a lot on my Vespa, carrying my recorder to places that reminded me both of beautiful and hard times of my life. I recorded sounds that I then edited in my computer or taped and altered with pedal effects so that they could be used in my tracks as otherworldly instruments, percussions, vocals or sound design.

‘Believers’ goes the analogue way. This is what I chose while using synths, drum machines, peculiar synths as well as vst so that I could be able to reproduce what I had in mind. Later on, I decided to use hydrophones and place them underwater in the Corinthian gulf in order to collect sounds for my ‘Ocean of Emotions’ track. A magical moment that took me years back, when at a young age, together with my sister Aggeliki we were trying to reach the lighthouse in our canoe. Not with any luck.

‘Believers’ gave me the chance to work with Peter Broderick. It was a privilege to collaborate with someone that I admire not only as a musician but as a person too. The same feelings fill me too, every time I work with my sister Aggeliki, the other half of our band, Ocean Hope and the creator of the Believer’s cover artwork. One of my favourites works of her.