The second album of Socos & The Live Project Band, with Maria Latsinou now in the lineup, was released on March 26th 2007 by puzzlemusik.
A box-set (in a luxury 25cm x 25 cm format) containing 2 CDs (21 tracks), 1 DVD (72min), and an album of 21 photographs by Panagiotis Lambrou and 21 sketches by Alkistis Skarlatos. The project is based on Franz Kafka's work.
The album was recorded at the artracks recording studios of George Priniotakis with sound engineering, mixing and mastering by Priniotakis himself. It is co-produced by socos and Priniotakis.
Featuring: Sophia Manti (voice on track no 3, "der bau"), Marios Dapergolas (viola on track no 21, "-") and Christos Alexopoulos (piano on track no 21, "-").
The dvd, a production of "sick my duck sound and vision", was recorded live on June 2nd 2006 at the "epi kolono" theater during the three-day (June 1st, 2nd and 3rd) presentation of the dance and music show "the burrow" and has not undergone any digital processing.
"Kafka" is distributed by puzzlemusik.
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It's only seldom in this profession that one is so lucky as to witness the release of an album that are destined to change things. [...] It's the secret dream of all those who do this job - and some are so eager that they end up seeing big and great things where there are none. Although I acknowledge the danger of this last remark, I am nevertheless willing to lay my name (for what it's worth) on the line as a critic [...] that the Kafka album of Socos & The Live Project Band is indeed such a great record. It's like a window that suddenly opened where there was only a wall and let the cool fresh air rush in, and dramatically change the picture.
Haris Symvoulidis, avopolis.gr
...11th best album of the last decade...
avopolis.gr
...There are moments when you think you're listening to an absolutely dark post-electronica album until an unexpected light echo sadness in clear greek constricts your throat...
...And all this among evocative, really evocative music, that manages to be heavy without being epic, without bombast, without being voluminous. With minor keys that make one's eyes blur with tears. From the tricks of such names as Current 93 to the simplicity of Colleen one is suddenly thrown into the maze of Tool's wild antics and the barrage of blows of Trent Reznor! From the dimly lit introductions of The Cure to the insolence of Trans Am.
Kyriakos Skordas, atraktos.net
His compositions are truly innovative. Their structure is distinctive and although he mostly uses analog and electric mediums the result would make several electronic experimentalists of our time jealous.
tranzistor.gr
...'Kafka' is what is called a multimedia construct. In addition to the double cd, it includes a very nice album with 21 photographs by Panagiotis Lambrou and 21 sketches by Alkistis Skarlatos; 1 picture and 1 sketch for each of the record's 21 tracks, as well as a dvd in which the 5 members of the band and Socos perform a live recording of the project, accompanying Socos' relevant 72 min. film. In some parts of the dvd the visualization of the music and emotions is so artful that when you listen to the cd again (although I suppose that the music was written first and independently of the dvd), you feel like something is missing...
...Accordingly, the nudity and the woman masturbating in the visual rendition of "I am asking you" is certain to arouse certain people who will not understand it (e.g. greek prosecutors, knock on wood) even though that is not the kind of arousal Socos is aiming at.
...In a Greece that seems to be going "fast backward", with the old right-wing patriotism of Polydoras, Psomiadis and others, or the old socialist hatred and senile fixations who will not leave us alone even when we sit in front of the tv to watch a basketball game (Politis, Syrigos and others), this project by Socos, inspired by Franz Kafka is more than welcome.
Thanassis Papadopoulos, mic.gr
...In general, I would describe it as a contemporary kind of progressive rock - which doesn't necessarily refer to something specific and, more importantly, to a stated past...
...Indeed, it is surprising how our friend consumes himself, how profusely he offers himself to materialize all the things that are spinning in his head - material, in short, that could fill three or four different CD's over three or four years...
...Somewhat like a natural phenomenon evolving within its own rules, sowing destruction or salvation - depending on how you see it. In any case, however, there is no doubt... your jaw will drop when you hear tracks like "Magic carpet", "Cocaine", or "I am asking you"... before turning it off, long after it's finished.
Fondas Trousas, Jazz & Jazz