B.A.A.D.M. 018

Panos Alexiadis – Cestrum Nocturnum

• LP
• Edition of 300
• 2025

• A1.Toutes Âmes
• A2.Follower
• A3.But One
• B1.Cestrum Nocturnum
• B2.Saved
• B3.Break

The night has a thou­sand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.

The mind has a thou­sand eyes,
And the heart but one:
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.

— Francis William Bourdillon, 1899

Panos Alexiadis is a sound artist based in Athens, Greece, active in the field of con­tem­po­rary elec­tro-acoustic music. He founded and co-curated the tape label Thalamos, a home for exploratory sounds, where some of his own works also found their place. Marking a return after a period of (sonic) reflec­tion, Cestrum Nocturnum is an album of remem­brance and renewal. Through a lat­tice of self-sam­pled piano, frag­mented voices, field record­ings, and tran­sient dig­i­tal traces, Alexiadis com­poses a space of warmth — an elec­tronic tapes­try woven from the ephemeral. Across six pieces, sound unfolds like mem­ory: lay­ered, tex­tured, dis­solv­ing at the edges yet leav­ing an imprint. A med­i­ta­tion on the cycli­cal nature of being and the often unno­ticed beauty that qui­etly per­sists, even in the dark­est hours. Cestrum Nocturnum is both a shel­ter and a signal.