Exclusive album premiere of ‘Amphora’ by Dimitriam, out February 23, 2024 via Moone Records.

Dimitriam is the most recent moniker for Tucson, AZ’s ever prolific home-taper and DIY lifer, Dimitri Manos. He has been an Arizona staple since the early 2000’s, co-founding the legendary Golden Boots, creating tape collage chaos as American Monoxide, recording and playing with countless other bands, and releasing tons of limited run tapes, lathes and CD-Rs. Dimitri also spent the better half of the 2010’s actively touring and recording as a member of Philadelphia’s own Dr. Dog.

The tracks on Dimitriam’s latest creation, ‘Amphora,’ were pulled from last summer’s 4-track recording experiments. He started compiling everything that felt playful, hazy, experimental and low(er) fidelity. This tape spans the stylings of home-taper, power pop, comedian Chris Sievey, Cleaners from Venus’ Martin Newell, and sometimes Sparklehorse. It’s littered with synth and field recording fuckery. An “Amphora” is a container of sorts. This tape became that container for Dimitriam’s masterpiece.

<a href="https://dimitriam.bandcamp.com/album/amphora-2">Amphora by Dimitriam</a>

“‘Amphora’ is a collection culled from a summer of home recordings. One afternoon in the fall, I sat down with a small box of cassette tapes and started weeding through them, keeping all the moments that fit my playful narrative. In every way, this album is the snippets of a journal. Bits of sense, bits of feeling, bits of fleeting. I found the threads of this “album” that fall afternoon and have enjoyed assembling its story. An amphora is a vessel, and that’s what this album is: a place to collect all the moments from a summer. I’m grateful to Caleb and Micah at Moone Records for releasing ‘Amphora’. This album is full of good memories for me and I’m happy to have a way to share them with people.” – Dimitri

‘Amphora’ will be released on home dubbed and decorated C40 back shell tapes, printed on j-cards made of 160g CANSON XL Sand Grain paper that have been individually painted with watercolor. Each cassette will also come with a killer mini lyric and art zine.