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PETE & ROYCE "Suffering of Tomorrow" LP 1980/2013 RE (Greece/MUSICBAZZ), ONLY 150 COPIES COLORED VINYL.

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CHRISTIAN TOPICS IN THE LYRICS: SUFFERING, DEATH, SALVATION!

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"Pete & Royce "SUFFERING OF TOMORROW + DAYS OF DESTRUCTION" 2 LP in 1 CD."

Despite its extreme scarceness, this is a very important record concerning the evolution of the greek underground of the late 70ies. In order to recapture the spirit of the days, I will relate its release with a brief description of the socio-political framework of the greek scene of the times.

The presence of the military junta during the late sixties and early seventies has been quite a deterrent for the local rock scene, having prevented a musical development concurrent with that of other European countries. To complete the picture, after the restitution of democracy, there was the obvious hostility of the greek communist party towards the "cultural imperialism of U.S. patterns of life" that was added to the overall paranoia. Under these political constraints, the mid seventies heralded an explosion in the greek underground scene. Not only in music but also in all other forms of art as well as in political activism, a stream of radical innovation was omnipresent. The principal expressions of this phenomenon were the gradual change of several areas in Athens to freak hang-outs (Plaka and Exarchia Square), the turning into rock clubs of many traditional folk music taverns and in general the adoption of alternative lifestyles by the most advanced of the younger people. Thus, a small radical core began to show its presence nearly everywhere in the big cities, spurred on primarily by the fall of the military regime but also by an obvious desire for social change. Having to face a new, uncontrolled phenomenon, the conservative greek society undertook a hostile stance, with the mass media printing slurring against the new movement and approving the autocracy of the suppressive forces. As was to be foreseen this behaviour did nothing if not strengthen the cohesion of the alternative scene. A space for free and virtually limitless forms of expression was opened and many bands quit their previous mainstream direction and jumped on the alternative bandwagon. Unfortunately the local record companies were reluctant to release any underground rock music, not necessarily from a political but rather from a commercial point of view: they assumed that there wasn't enough of a potential audience for the genre to make it worth while. Thus, the majority of the groups of the era disappeared without leaving any recorded traces.

PETE & ROYCE were one of the few local progressive bands operating in such framework (others like PLJ BAND for instance, never identified with the alternative rock audiences in order to achieve a major label deal). Led by painter Pete Tsiros, they have made a name in the underground network, based on lengthy "hazy" concerts and an uncompromising underground attitude. Their sound was deeply rooted in the UK progressive scene, sitting somewhere between the prog/psych sound of mid-period PINK FLOYD and the mellotron school (FANTASY, CRESSIDA, KESTREL, early B.J.H.), resulting in a style heavily relying on mellow soundscapes.

During spring 1980 they captured on self-released vinyl the best tracks of their live shows. "Suffering of Tomorrow", was one of the very first greek private releases (on the mysterious Octoichos label) and the band's debut album, loosely based on the concept of death and decay (it is dedicated to Tsiros' deceased brother). A period piece undoubtfuly, but with that exquisite basement feel encountered in the early 70ies british proto-progressive bands it is one of the essential Greek progressive albums of all times. Their second offering "Days of Destruction" (1981 _Ocean) was somewhat more unevenly balanced, as folky progressive influences were blended together with a more mainstream and somewhat uninspired approach; funky orientated mainstream sounds and afroamerican female vocals. They disbanded in 1982, during the era of the punk boom, due to general indifference towards their recorded output and their members were lost from the music scene.

Track list (in the correct order NOT displayed on the album's sleeve):

Side A
1) Flickering Light
2) It's So Unreal
3) Flowers
4) Suffering of Tomorrow

Side B
1) Time
2) Years Beyond
i. Maybe
ii. Face of the Moon
iii. Round Your Grave

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NEW RELEASE: 2 LP ON 1 CD (Musicbazz, zz001).

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NEW FACTORY PRESSED HIGH QUALITY CD PETE & ROYCE: "SUFFERING OF TOMORROW" (PRIVATE PRESS, 1980 LP, 500 COPIES) + "DAYS OF DESTRUCTION" (PRIVATE LIMITED PRESS, 1981 LP), DELUXE GATEFOLD EMBOSSED SILVER FOIL COVER + POSTER + SUPERB MASTERING (A KIND OF "REVINYLISED" SOUND, NO COMPRESSED TRICKS, NO SENSES-PUNISHING DIGITAL REMASTER!!!, LIMITED EDITION OF ONLY 500 COPIES FOR WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION, AUTHORIZED/APPROVED BY "PETE" TSIROS & THE ROYCE.

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ONLY 500 COPIES WORLWIDE. BUY DOZENS AND RESELL OR STOCK 'EM - THE PRICE IS GOING TO BE HIGHER FOR THIS COLLECTABLE PIECE OF ART. BUY NOW THE STRICTLY LIMITED REPRINT OF BOTH 2 Killer LPs OF PETE & ROYCE -yes, both: "SUFFERING OF TOMORROW" + "THE DAYS OF DESTRUCTION"!!!- in 1 very-carefully-made CD, on the current and very promising avant/psych label Musicbazz. IT IS THE FIRST -in 30 years- AUTHORIZED Deluxe International Edition of these 2 PRIVATE PRESS albums that could shock the progressive Pink-Floydian world (DELUXE GATEFOLD EMBOSSED/TEXTURED SILVER FOIL "MIRROR" COVER + POSTER + BRILLIANT "REVINYLISED" PERFECT "ANALOG SOUNDING" MASTER authorized/approved personally by PANAGIOTIS "PETE" TSIROS, the leader of PETE & ROYCE!!!). These 2 cosmic-psych masterpieces, from 1980-1981 respectively (sounding mid seventies!!!), are the biggest and better Greek Rock Secret ever!!! BUY NOW YOUR COPY OF THIS LIMITED EDITION (500 copies total): 1 cd $19.99 (+H&S), 2 cd $35.00 (free shipping), 10-100 cd $13.00 (FREE SHIPPING)!!!

On the rear side of the big poster (with extremely rare photos of PETE & ROYCE) we find a rather interesting "manifesto", written by the Executive Producer of this official international release, Christos Tsanakas (Tsanakas Archives Foundation): Absence is not the matrix of gloriousness. Uniqueness is. And this is exactly the case with the cult Greek band Pete & Royce and their sought after trippy “spaced out” rock saga. The best progressive rock band in Greece (of any era) and one of the top ones globally (of any era), three decades after its disappearance, is “back” to prove at least that the idiosyncratic and intuitive street forms of beauty live forever. Probably this is the proper time warp for lost heroes like Pete & Royce to jump out of the cosmic oblivion and definitely prove the indisputable reality that sparks in the core of their glorious mythological status or, simply, to confirm their oracles for today!

Finally, the two DIY, pioneer-spirited and rare as hen’s teeth LPs of Pete & Royce, “Suffering of Tomorrow” (1980, their absolute masterpiece) and “Days of Destruction” (1981, an arc of their most appealing songwriting uplifted to Pink-Floydian quality levels), both self-financed and strictly limited PRIVATE editions, are now legally available side by side in a very carefully produced CD (the first ever international edition, authorized by Panagiotis “Pete” Tsiros himself, the mighty leader of Pete & Royce). This digital time-capsule is tenderly mastered to preserve in detail and without any kind of “corrections” the original vinyl sound (sadly, the master tapes have been lost). As a vinyl fetishist myself and executive producer of this CD reprint of these two mind-blowing albums, I had as my main concern and responsibility to give and secure a strict rigid guidance to our highly experienced technicians (among the top experts in the world): “Please, avoid any common digital treachery, like the so called “compressed” technique or any “advanced” re-mastering, and use your know-how and the highest available sound technology just in order to preserve -with laser accuracy- the wide information my mint vinyl copies have stored so elegantly”.

And exactly this happened, offering us at last a crystal clear, very deep and wide, “re-vinylised” digital spectrum of pure rock energy. If you are lucky enough to have the too rare original vinyls, you could easily recognize the success of our efforts. If you don’t, you will just feel it, enjoying these one-off songs (raw enough but juicy and really genius achievements, all recorded during a handful of over-busy, low-rent and exhaustedly empathic nights!), this advanced rock art of the breathless workouts Pete (Tsiros) and the Royce gave away “instantly”, without even imagining that their fiery complex oeuvre was meant to be a (sometimes sharp, sometimes dreamy) example of a fight against phoniness and compromise. Even today, every time I meet the original members of the group, I have the same solid impression of uncompromised, really rocking and unique, characters, as alive and exceptional as their unwrinkled and one-of-a-kind music, this monster collective sound that wraps –mainly- the key music ideas of a very gifted songwriter, guitarist and vocalist, Panagiotis Tsiros, the front-man and the brain of Pete & Royce (also a professional icon painter). “Pete was to Pete & Royce what Fripp was to King Crimson”, stated to me Panos Gekas, a famous multi-keyboard wizard and the latest member of the group, who replaced the mighty Vasilis Ghinos as the right hand of Tsiros in the “unknown” -criminally underrated- third LP of Pete & Royce, an album full of pulsating cosmic funk rock, not drained of progressive complexities and sci-fi sound details!

So, yes indeed, Pete & Royce were a “pack” of hip underground musicians “wired” around Tsiros, giving flesh and blood to his orgiastic rock vision, a blend of trippy space instrumental explorations, hard guitar biting-fuzz explosions, spontaneous communal freak-outs, strong flashy melodies, heart throbbing rhythm-bones, mystical electronic shifts and strange lyrics like oracles from an unknown book of Apocalypsis (very compatibly, two key members of another top progressive Greek group named Apocalypsis were also involved importantly in the recordings of Pete & Royce, the keyboardist Vasilis Dertilis and the vocalist Giannis Palamidas). What better dream to ask for in the rock desert of a dizzy post-junta and pre-socialistic ‘70s era in this eastern suburbia of the West World? Though, then, only a few shared the same gut feeling about the “suffering of tomorrow” and the coming “days of destruction” -Greece’s dystopian present!- with Panagiotis Tsiros and his league of topnotch neuromancers.

Christos Tsanakas, Executive Producer

Suffering of Tomorrow (1980, private edition – 500 copies)

1. Flickering Light (Tsiros)

2. It’s so Unreal (Tsiros)

3. Flowers (Tsiros)

4. Suffering of Tomorrow (Ghinos)

5. Time (Tsiros)

6. Years Before (Tsiros)

a. Maybe

b. Face of the Moon

c. Round Your Grave

Days of Destruction (1981, private edition - limited)

7. It’s up to You (Tsiros)

8. Am I Mistaken (Tsiros – Ghinos)

9. Don’t Break Down (Tsiros)

10. Who Cares (Tsiros – Ghinos)

11. Dream (Tsiros)

12. You Make me Feel (Tsiros)

13. Give me the Wings to Fly (Tsiros)

14. Long Time Ago (Tsiros)

15. Passing Another Day (Tsiros – Ghinos)

16. Days of Destruction (Tsiros)

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