The Promos...(full handmade edition) SOLD OUT

Private Promo edition of total 8 copies (4white+4black vinyls), including unique rapidograph drawings by Spiros, all signed & numbered, handwritten lyrics sheet & credits plastic inner sleeve. Record is "Promo" stamped.

White vinyls in hand sewn black leather jacket with fire-red thick thread. Both front & rear jacket's covers carry silver prints of "Crystal Thoughts 1435 Miles" & "Giraffe Production" hand numbered logo.

Black vinyls in hand sewn petrol-blue leather jacket with ochre thick thread. Both front & rear jacket's covers carry gold prints of "Crystal Thoughts 1435 Miles" & "Giraffe Production" hand numbered logo.

8 unique rapidograph drawings by Spiros R. for each promo, all signed and numbered...

handwritten lyrics sheet & credits plastic inner sleeve...

Each of the 8 Promos will include owner's certificate insert as well...

Crystal Thoughts - 1435 Miles (LP) - 2012 (Sold Out)

CRYSTAL THOUGHTS - 1435 MILES / LP

label: Giraffe Production

cat No: GPPD 004 / Greece

produced: 2012

Crystal Thoughts 2nd LP is finally out!

4 obscure acid psychedelic tracks, 2 of them canterbury flavoured.

Limited to 196 copies in black & white vinyl.

No need to write much...

tracklist:

A1.1435 Miles

A2.Lysergic Flight

B1.The Primitive Gospel

B2.Dreaming...

Recorded at home between April & August 2012 by Spiros Rouchotas.

Mixed and mastered at Kosmic studio, Athens.

All music, lyrics & artwork made by Spiros Rouchotas.

LP back

This release is limited to 196 copies and divided in 3 issues:

a) Regular issue of 96 copies with laminated cover, black vinyl, hand numbered insert & back cover.

b) Leather jacket-silver print edition of the first 70 copies. Olive green silver printed & hand sewn leather jacket, fire-red thick thread, laminated cover, white vinyl, psychedelic poster, lyrics insert, signed picture, hand numbered insert & back cover.

c) Stickered deluxe plastic edition strictly limited to only 30 copies. Balloon sticker on deluxe plastic jacket, laminated cover, white vinyl, XL poster, lyrics insert, flyer, hand numbered insert & back cover. 

LP & 7"single out now.....(Sold Out)

Only few copies from debut Dedalos 1996 single will be included in a strictly limited edition along with Crystal Thoughts LP + inserts, in a stickered thick cover.

This issue is numbered randomly among the first 98 LP copies and includes the regular 7" cover. However there will be fewer copies with the rare handmade one.

+ regular 7"

+ handmade 7"

+ promo 7"

Check it on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R-sGAEqWY4 - Thanks Mikael!

For any interest: dedalospsych@gmail.com

Crystal Thoughts - Toxic Phenomena In Kosmic Fields (LP) - 2011 (Sold Out)

CRYSTAL THOUGHTS - TOXIC PHENOMENA IN KOSMIC FIELDS / LP
label: Missing Vinyl
cat No: MVPD 003 / Greece
produced: 2011

Crystal Thoughts formed in 1999, as a psych folk duet by Spiros Rouchotas & Vassilis Stavrianakos. The same year they recorded a number of songs, part of a jam session, and the next year the duet splits.
As years went by, Spiros R. decided to reform Crystal Thoughts remaining under the same music aesthetics, but this time under a different personnel as a 4member unit.
Authentic psych-folk characterises 4 tracks on this album, with the first song excluding from the genre, jumping deep into heavy dope of psychedelia with progressive touches.
Four new tracks and one from Crystal Thoughts beginning era.
Comes in unipak cover limited to 500cps.
We also meet Spiros R. on his first solo project LP titled "Ta Paichnidia tou Iliou" (Tricks of the Sun / 2007), but also in 1996 with his band "Dedalos" (Daedalus) in their debut 7"single.

tracklist:
A1.Kosmic Journey
A2.Psilocybe Effect
B1.Crystal Thoughts
B2.Tear Of An Elephant
B3.Carovna Pistalka

members:
Lilian Tsatsaroni: all vocals
Mike Lawson: vocals, narration
Janka Helmeciova: narration
Spiros Rouchotas: bass, drums, guitars, keyboards, percussion, flute, oboe, bassoon, el.sitar, nature sounds & effects.

music composed by Spiros R. except from "Carovna Pistalka", music from "Paslo Dievca Pavy" - traditional slovak.
lyrics written by Spiros R. and Janka Helmeciova, except on "Tear Of An Elephant" by Judith Stover & Spiros R.
also "Carovna Pistalka" is a slovak tale by Janka Helmeciova
"Tear Of An Elephant" lyrics are inspired from Judy's poems "First Reverence" & "We Ran Together Then"

recorded in Athens at home, between September 2010 and April 2011, except "Psilocybe Effect" (reel to reel - 1999)
mixed by Spiros R. and Zacharias Kotsikis at Kosmic Studio, Athens

Unipak-in 1

                

Unipak-in 2

              

LP back cover

              

Ta Paichnidia tou Iliou (LP) - 2007 (Sold Out)

TA PAICHNIDIA TOU ILIOU (the Tricks of the Sun) - ST / LP
cat No: PD 002 / Greece

produced: 2007

Τα Παιχνίδια του Ήλιου (LP - ΠΔ 002)

70's sound & chaotic spirit in an absolute utopian album. Great crystal sound, with many space folk themes, trippy flutes, amazing female vocals, dreamy childs voice, native instruments & sounds, heavy dope psych melodies & more...Collage artwork with double-page velvet insert. Private issue in 300 copies.

It's just a hallucinogen experience!

tracklist

A1.Ra (Ρα)

Α2.the Dream (Τ' Όνειρο)

Β1.Flutter of the Butterfly (η Πεταλούδα ανοίγει τα Φτερά της)

B2.the Tricks of the Sun (τα Παιχνίδια του Ήλιου)

B3.Epilogue (Επίλογος)

members

Lilian Tsatsaroni : main vocals & narration

Christos Pieridis : vocals

Spiros Rouchotas : flute, fife, el.& acoustic guitar, el.bass, keyboards, drums, native instruments & sounds, effects

Aphrodite : narration

music written by Spiros Rouchotas

lyrics by Nancy Fanouriou & Spiros Rouchotas

recorded at home, 2007 Athens

sound engineering & remix by Zacharias Kotsikis

Take a taste:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqdFj-c1ays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uvf85G5nno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WQMS_bbp1M

LP back cover

LP insert

Dedalos (7inch single) - 1996 (Sold Out)

DEDALOS (Daedalus) - Traveller / Like an Eagle 7'sp

cat No: PD 001 / Greece
produced: 1996
Δαίδαλος - Ταξιδευτής / Σαν Αετός (7ιντσο - ΠΔ 001)

Late 60's - early 70's authentic sound & spirit! Greek lyrics, female vocals, acid trip flutes & hippy flavoured atmosphere! Heavy vinyl 70gr + velvet insert. This is the band's first & only single, as their members disbanded a year later. Private issue, recorded in 1996 and finally released 8 years later in 500 hand numbered cps, from which only 30 of them wear a hand-made jacket from recycled paper with different artwork(see 2nd pic.) designed by band's composer Spiros Rouchotas.
12 years later he records his debut LP "Ta Paichnidia tou Iliou" (the Τricks of the Sun), moving into psychedelic progressive folk sound.

tracks:

1.Traveller (Ταξιδευτής)

2.Like an Eagle (Σαν Αετός)

members:

Pavlina Katsochi : main vocals

Spiros Rouchotas : flute, lead & rhythm guitar, vocals

Christos Tzelepopoulos : bass, vocals

Dimitris Pollatos : drums

music written by Spiros Rouchotas

lyrics by Spiros Rouchotas & Dimitris Pollatos

recorded at Action studio, 1996 Athens

remixed by Kosmas Boulakas
mastered by Nikos Stratigos

7" back cover

7" insert