Four years after the critically lauded Eight Winds the Athens-based Sokratis Sinopolous Quartet returns with the aptly-named Metamodal. A unique band, the quartet subtly sifts a vast pool of influence, its music informed by the players’ experience of folk forms, Byzantine and classical music, and many modes of improvising. The combination of Sinopoulos’s lyra, with its yearning, ancient tones, and the sensitive, modern piano of Yann Keerim is particularly beguiling.

Tracklist:

1:Lament
2:Metamodal I – Liquid
3:Transition
4:Metamodal II – Illusions
5:Metamodal III – Dimensions
6:Walking
7:Dawn
8:Red Thread
9:Mnemosyne