Recently, while slowly developing into a quartet, Persephone was born as the homespun genre-defying solo endeavour of the Greek musician and composer Konstantinos Patsiantas based in Thessaloniki, named after and inspired by the homonymous mythological figure and her eternal circle of light and darkness.
The musician tells us about the background of his latest single, “A Hatful of Rain”:
photo by Akill Char
Featuring the bass written and performed by Constantis Cienfuegos, and the synthesizer played by Ioakim Vasiliadis, who we know from his Misfortunes project, with whom Konstantinos Patsiantas is a regular collaborator, the song is an atmospheric, heart-rending lyrical Post-punk inner journey, drifting amid lost nostalgia and hazy gleams of light.
The song elicits a reedy, accordion-like, mournful intro that fades out into an enveloping metaphysical aura, imbued with somber contemplative depth, layered with steady hypnotic beats, warm humming bass pulses, ghostly synth currents and echoing shimmery tinny guitar filigrees, to swell with a flickering, cicada-esque buzzy low tone and a final distorted burst from a piercing, weeping lead against melancholic, guilty vocal regret, stripped of love and faith, waiting for a bleak, forsaken darkness to take hold.
The naturally more synth-laced Misfortunes‘ remix on the flip shudders on a perpetual loop of low percolating basslines and shivering swathes of desolate, nostalgic synthetic warmth to tug on the heartstrings
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