Collection One began when composer/producer Basil Hogios found himself limited by the Covid lockdowns of 2020. This was a difficult time for an innumerable number of creators and musicians who were unable to perform or collaborate with others.

With Sylektis, Basil set out to achieve something seemingly impossible at the time of the project’s conception. He wanted to turn isolation into community, channelling the innate potential of musicians scattered across a world riddled with uncertainty, with artists who might feel as alienated and aimless as he did.

He saw the situation as a potential experiment: how could collaborative music be made in this new limited existence? With just a few musical ideas and a selection of fragments from visual arts, literature, poetry etc, he reached out to old friends and new artists scattered and isolated, hoping to create a community remotely through recorded music, inspired by what this process might sound like. The process was to follow where the musical piece would go, being completely open to the artists' responses, free from limiting ideas of style and genre set by the music industry. The results were always surprising and inspiring. Each song's creation became its own story.

The 5 song first EP 'Collection One' is the result of that experiment, a unique collection with each track representing each artist and reflecting the story behind the song; a product of the stories and emotions of those two strange years. The texture of the compositions is ethereal and melancholic, at times existential. The sombre, nocturnal mood of the cinematic sound textures offers a quirky and theatrical style.