Flight Sessions on Cooradio (Greece)

The first two episodes of Flight Sessions will be presented in Cooradio a young online radiostation Tuesday at 4-5 Greek Time.

You can listen online at wwww.cooradio.com

fromatree.gr

Artist Anastasios Papalias has launched his personal webpage:

http://fromatree.gr/w/?page_id=5

It is a nicely set up page where you can fing bio infos, links, live dates, merchandise, a small gallery and news. Leaf is currently updating the webpage so most of the pages are still under construction.

Flight Sessions are moving

Most of the details found on this blog plus the sound files of each show will be uploaded to my personal web page that is now under construction. On that website you will also be able to have a look/listen to most of my other projects and music.

More Details to follow... please wait :)

Spread the Word: Flight Sessions on RODON FM

For the Greek listeners of Flight Sessions: The show will be broadcast on the Greek airwaves of Rodon FM every Tuesday at 10.30pm(GR)!

Rodon FM is an independent radio station based in Serres, Greece. You can listen online by clicking here

STAY TUNED!

Spread the word: Flight Sessions on Sound Art Radio

I am really happy to announce that Sound Art Radio will be broadcasting Flight Sessions for the next 4 weeks as part of their weekly schedule.

The day is Thursday and the time 20.30 pm.

Sound Art Radio is the student radio station of the Dartington College of Arts (University College of Falmouth). It broadcasts on 87.7FM or online here

You can become a friend of Sound Art Radio on mypace by clicking here.

Episode 4: 5 flights revisited

Welcome to Flight Sessions a four part mini guide to contemporary Greek music broadcast every Wednesday at 7.30pm on Resonance FM, 104.4, London.

This is the final episode of the series entitled 5 Flights Revisited. Listen to it online by clicking here.

TRACKLIST


subheim- voces perdidas feat. Katja (LP: Approach, Tympanik Audio, 2008)
dergar - the passion (unreleased, 2008)
melorman- apricot fields (Unreleased, 2008)
Elica- Terminal 1(Unreleased)
chronik - Save me (V.A: MAEA, 9.12 records, 2008)

ARTIST PROFILES

Subheim

Bio

SUBHEIM is Kostas K's project ( composer / video artist / graphic designer), a downtempo, experimental project with idm elements, together with female vocalist Katja.
Laid-back as well as complex rhythms, deep reverbs and bitcrushed sounds combined with pianos, cellos, long release keyboards and haunting voices, flirting with post-rock and atmospheric downtempo music.
Inspired by subjects like urban isolation and the outburst of man's deepest emotions, Subheim deliver an ideal soundtrack for chaotic moments filled with melancholy...

Kostas K is also a co-founder of SPECTRALIQUID, a brand new label, originating form Athens, Greece, promoting innovative art & music and hosting events with important artists from the experimental scene around the globe, motivated by the will to achieve a better luck for people creating original, fascinating and non-compromising art.

Approach" - full length
March 2008 - Tympanik Audio (TA004)

V/A "Konkrete" compilation CD vol.1
Dec. 2007 - Spectraliquid (TA004)

www.myspace.com/subheimmusic

www.subheim.com

Dergar

Bio

Dergar is the solo project of Christos Garbidakis, born [13 April 1968] and living in Chania, Crete, Greece.

Chris is making music since 1996 (with theoretical background 2 years of classical guitar studies at the age of 10-11), working with computer and software synthesizers (now mainly Ableton Live 7), classical and electric guitar, voice, melodica and a few field recordings. The results are rather sad, long and minimal with sometimes more flush and dramatic-cinematic orchestrations that could accompany landscapes and other pictures or drives-journeys and let emotions emerge freely...

Works:

Unreleased album "20 Balcony Stories" [2001-2002]: "Eviva", recently introduced on BBC6 Music by Tom Robinson, is included in that album... A remix of "dergarp" by the artist Radio One (Spain) from the same album and the song "summer" [2005] have been released in www.persona-isla.org netlabel.

A remix for "Roliga Timmen (Longing Machines)" original song of the much beloved Italian band Port-Royal has been released in the special vinyl version of their latest album "Afraid to Dance" in Valeot records ( www.valeot.com ) in 2008.

"The passion (dreaming trees version)" with Katja's [link at myspace] vocals contribution has also been introduced on BBC6 by Tom Robinson.

Chris’s work on a full length album since December 2006 is in the process of final mix. Release details to be announced... The song "Automnsunshine" from the same album will also be released in a double CD compilation in 2008 by Vim Records in Thessaloniki - Greece.

Chris is always open in collaborations and currently working, as well as on the final mix of his album, on a new solo album and on a collaboration album with Lyn Dobson [flute, sitar, voice], ex Soft Machine member, who has also contributed with flute recordings in the Port-Royal remix.

www.myspace.com/dergar

www.virb.com/dergar

fraternity forever :)

(7 questions)

FS: Name one album that was very influential for the creation of your sound/project

d: very hard to answer as the influences are so many since i was a kid and they were all vast. Just to mention some: This Mortal Coil: "Filigree and Shadow", Brian Eno's entire work, Harold Budd, Port Royal' s entire work, Manos Hadjidakis: "O Megalos Erotikos" (regarding the melodic, lyrical and emotional influences) and most of Manos's work, Pink Floyd, early Genesis, Franz Shubert's quartets, Erik Satie, Georges Delerue, Cocteau twins: "Treasure", "Victorialand", Robin Guthrie, Arvo Part, Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook: "Sleep with the fishes", FSOL: "Life Forms" (that's an early electronic one), Yellow6, Fedaden's work, Kraftwork: "Autobahn", Boards of Canada, Stars of the lid, etc... the list is endless, some more in my myspace influences section...

FS:Name an influential gig

d: the latest 3: Port Royal - Milan - 2008, Kraftwerk - Athens 2005, Yellow6 & Epic45 - 2001 Notting Hill Arts Centre - London. not so many gigs in the town i live [Chania] :)

FS: dergar live

d: The only live experience I had was an improvisation with Port-Royal in Basel - Switzerland in 2006 at a party at our friends Lisa's house... it was pretty funny as i was trying to play with the mouse pad of my thinkpad :) working with Ableton Live 7 is pure fun and i might get a set ready soon...

FS:What do you think you can offer/change in the Greek music scene/reality

d: i think that the problem in greece in general is rather social: the way that people apprehend artists... thus, if i could, I would like to transmit the way i perceive music: emotionally, fully consciously, focusing in the aesthetic and not in any use or fashion...very helpfull could be some wonderful collaborations between the greek artists and, honestly, i know many of them that are absolutely marvelous... collaborations with artists from abroad also helps... but what seem more important to me are the issues of aesthetic and education... music draws up emotions, creates atmosphere and "space" but, as well as in paintings for example, apprehension might be achieved not so easilly... i have a friend, she is a teacher of arts in high school... they have maybe a key position... and of course the "Flight Sessions" :) i am just sharing some thoughts, definitely i should share them with some friends i have in greek radio stations too... :)

FS:Have you collaborated/will you collaborate with artists from abroad?

That is something that makes me truly happy because, above all, we have a fantastic fraternal friendship with these artists:
Port Royal - Italy: Remix for their song "Roliga Timmen (Longing Machines), (details in bio above...). The beloved fratelli have been and are helping me so much!
Fedaden - France: bro Denis has also kindly offered me to help me with the mastering of my album...
Radio One - Spain: Remix for an old song of mine called "dergarp" [see bio]
Chameleon Jersey - Bro David :)

Cruiser - England - I have started a remix for their "Happy robots, smiling people" song from their homonymous album ...
Linda Bjalla - Japan: Izumi is an amazing japanese artist and she has promised me to contribute with some vocals to my album... her live sets are stunning!
Sumire - France
surely some more to come...

FS: Name an artist with whom you would like to perform

Port-Royal, Fedaden, Linda Bjalla, No Clear Mind, Linda Bjalla, Luumu, Chameleon Jersey, Chronik, Melorman & Naono, Elica and so on...


FS: Any plans for the future?

Release my almost ready full length album... New full length album already started... Some gigs preferably at Chania, my beloved home land, but also Athens or Europe :) Album on the way with Lyn Dobson. More collaborations... A peaceful life, spending more in nature... In June I will hopefully finish my Open University diploma in "European Civilization" studies... I will never stop trying to share my dreams and passions: peace, music, love, friendship, respect for nature, art ..

Melorman

Bio

Melorman is the music project of Athens based musician Antonis Haniotakis beginning at 2001.

His sound is a mixture of deep melodic elements and lush sounds.

He begun his way to electronic music with his debut ep “Biography” in Sixteensteps.

He has participated in Labels such as Shima Records,SCCT Records,Symbolic Interaction,IVDT and Vim Records.

“Far Away Morning” 9 track ep in 2007(CCT Records) and "Drawing Circles Trhough an Empty Sky" ep in 2008 (Summer Rain Recordings) contain just a handful of Melorman’ s work to date.

Aside from his own material he has done extensive remix work for many other artists and collaborated with Naono(GR) (Naono & Melorman), Headphone Science(U.S), Renfro(U.K) and Amy Duncan(Scotland).

Melorman often works collaboratively with video artist Andrea Smits (Frequency Films) and Thom Undrell (Novi Films).

(7 questions)

FS: Name one album that was very influential for the creation of your sound/project

There is no particular album to refer to.I have listened to many artists before i begin my own project.The only thing i always liked and kept from all these sounds is the existence of melody that im trying to expand in my own personal sound.

FS:Name an influential gig

I do not remember exactly the year.Probably in 1997 . It was a live performance by Aphex Twin at "Rodon" stage in Athens . He played only for 15 minutes in the dark (you couldn't see him at all) and then he left like a shadow.

We thought first that it was someone else that started the line up.But then someone told us that it was Aphex for sure.We never learned why he left like that.

FS: melorman live

Usually I 'm performing live with Naono as Naono & Melorman.Combining our sound and image makes live more interesting.

FS:What do you think you can offer/change in the Greek music scene/reality

There are lot of things that changed in Greece from 2000.Electronic scene is rising.People are searching alternative ways of spending their night or day.

Much more festivals for electronic alternative scene.

Changing musical reality (and not only) in Greece is or must be a collective effort.

From my side i m trying to organize live events with other artists and invite people to watch and hear something new.

FS:Have you collaborated/will you collaborate with artists from abroad?

Yes of course there are.It's nice to work with other artists.Its fun and opens your mind in new sounds,styles and genres.

I have worked with many composers outside Greece such as Headphone Science (U.S.A), Renfro (U.K) , Amy Duncan (UK) , Rumorse and many more .

FS: Name an artist with whom you would like to perform

I really have never thought of that . I do not have any particular wish .

FS: Any plans for the future?

I'm now finishing in my cd album which is going to be released probably in 2009.

Also I'm focusing on a cooperation with friends filmakers such as Andrea Smits and Thom Undrel for making a video album containing their images and my sound.

Elica

Bio

Elica group was formed by Giorgos Grigorakos and Fotis Karaoglanis in Athens in 2003. They have presented "nekyia"
and "to taxidi twn xartaetwn"(the journey of the kites).Within these two projects,Elica experimented while combining electronic live performance and video art.Also they have composed a soundtrack for Sarah Kane's play "blasted" which was presented in thessalonikh in 2005 for the first time. They have performed as support group with Kbhta all around Greece.They have participated with their own remix ('to skyli') in "movement sessions-a tribute to kbhta". Their first
album called "ASYMMETRICA" and released by V.I.M. records.

Chronik

Bio

George Papadopoulos (aka Chronik) was born in Athens in 1974.

His engagement with music started at an early age when he initially began to work as a radio producer for JAZZ FM in the beginning of 1990 and later as a journalist in the Greek music press. He started producing music five years ago. His strong affiliation with the “family” of city centre offices (Berlin) gave him the chance to develop his personal sound: a piano based minimal ambient consisting of a film music aesthetic, melancholic sparse notes and repetitive melodies free of expressional or temporal limitations.

Collaboration is the core of inspiration and the motive power for chronik’s music. During the past two years he has been collaborating with Roger Doring (aka Dictaphone). They have performed together in Berlin and Athens and their album will be released in 2009.

Another project under the name piannou is in collaboration with pianist Rannou Todea from Rumania.

The soundtrack he composed for the film Inside a Change(USA) in courtesy of Channel Three 21 productions will be released in the beginning of 2009.

His latest album entitled Speechless was recently released under the Belgian independent label Vu-Us.

(7 questions)

FS: Name one album that was very influential for the creation of your sound/project

There are so many albums and sounds that inspired me to create music. Its difficult to mention only one or two... So many movies and so many music effected my music. Also life in general so....hm... lets say that i like Type Records, Leaf and City Centre Offices a lot!

FS:Name an influential gig

In general or mine?

In general i remember a lot of live shows that made me feel something inside. I could mention the first live set in athens from Residents, more than anything.

Mine, i would say my first live set together with arovane! I had a technical problem in my sound and an ugly noise came out from my monitors! I couldnt do anything to fix it and there were noisy sounds for 10 minutes. The audience thought that this is my music and they started to clap! i dunno why! Maybe they liked this ugly stuff :)

FS: chronik live

There is a live for the october together with port royal in athens. I dont know tha date yet.

FS:What do you think you can offer/change in the Greek music scene/reality

I don't care so much about what u are calling "greek" reality. I know many good musicians from Greece and in general there is good music in the air! But I'm here to offer my music to everybody who likes listening to it and not to offer something to the Greek reality. Also Greece ..lets say athens...is not the best place to do your music if you expect support and good promotion.

I do what I wanna do with my music and I never have in my mind whats going on in the Greek music industry. I try to support musicians that I really like or they are friends and nothing more. There is nothing more that I can do.

FS:Have you collaborated/will you collaborate with artists from abroad?

Yes! During the past two years I have been collaborating with Roger doering from Dictaphone. Also with a romanian piano girl but she is not known. And for the future I plan to share some ideas with Porn Sword Tobbaco and Arovane.

FS: Name an artist with whom you would like to perform

Its like a dream but i would prefer Helios! A big place with pillows for the audience. Not chairs :) Also with my mate Rannou coz we have never played live together :)

FS: Any plans for the future?

Some live shows in Athens for this year to promote my music...Then I will go again back to Berlin to collaborate with some musicians and record some music ...and hopefully at the begining of the new year to release the album that I have been working on together with Roger Doering.

Episode 3: Sounds from the stratosphere

Welcome to Flight Sessions a four part mini guide to the contemporary Greek music scene. The show is broadcast every Wednesday at 7.30pm on Resonance FM.

The third edition of the series is entitled Sounds from the stratosphere.

TRACKLIST

Reverse Mouth - Black Moth (Ballades pour un patriote CDR, tanzprocesz, 2007)
Sonologik - Fonienda (Unreleased, 2008)
Nokalypse - Neverrest (Axiac Infinity, Echomusic, 2005)
Spyweirdos - Third (Ten Numbers, Creative Space, 2008)
Stavros Gasparatos - Fall (Rehearsals, To be released on Creative Space, 2008)

ARTIST PROFILES

Reverse Mouth

Bio


Reverse mouth is an Athenian noise duo of Panagiotis Spoulos and Sofia Zoitu. With more than 19 releases on their agenda, reverse mouth offer an unusual alternative to the mainstream music dialect in Greece. Numerous albums with outrageously and deliberately provocative titles compose their distorted, grainy but always captivating sound frame. Hand made art work and limited edition cassette albums make Reverse Mouth a unique and genuine art project

Discography
- 2006
A Child, A Dwarf, A Sickness CDR (Phase!)
The Bible-Eater C20 (Phase!)
Black Trance C20 (Rumor)
We Rub Our Hands With A Tendency To Start Fires CDR (Phase!)

- 2007
Black Bimbo C30 (Rumor)
Ballades Pour Un Patriote CDR (Tanzprocesz)
Lard Bum CDR (Rumor)
Reverse Mouth / Slasher Risk Split C40 (Phase!)
Gay Control Icon 3''CDR (Phase!)
Taking Good Care Of The States CDR (Rumor)
Reverse Mouth / Fossils Split C60 (Middle James Co)
Royal Sleep CDR (Sycophanticide)
Blastocyst / Reverse Mouth Split LP (Heat Retention / Phase!)
Texan Zona 1-Sided C60 (Kourlyk Records)
Black On Pussy 3''CDR tour only (Rumor)

- 2008
Harsher Fist CDR (Kiddieriot)
Backboner C30 (I Just Live Here)
Texan Zona Recut CDR (Rumor)
Wizard Of The Porks / Garbage Empress C20 (Deep Fried Tapes)
Placenta Popeye / Reverse Mouth Split 7'' (Absurd / Phase! / Tanzprocesz)
Pearl Hidden In Pigslot CDR (Phase!)
V/A - Nous Déjouons Vos Machinations CS (Tanzprocesz)

http://www.geocities.com/reversemouth/

http://www.myspace.com/reversemouth


(7 -1 QUESTIONS)

Name one album that was very influential for the creation of your sound/project

We can't say there was a specific album that was a major influence because we are constantly listening to many different stuff. If we had to name a few, that would be recordings from Pengo, Fat Worm Of Error, Christina Carter, Sword Heaven, Caroliner, Lou Barlow, Emil Beaulieu, Lee Ranaldo, Cakes Of Light, Butthole Surfers, Wipers, Dead Machines, Big Blood. It's not all about music though. We are influenced by other forms of art as well.

Name an influential gig

September 24 2006, Uncle Paulies, Brooklyn - Sword Heaven. It was one of the most intimate and intense sets we've ever seen. Actually, they played twice that night.
What do you think you can offer/change in the Greek music scene/reality ?

Unfortunately there is not much of an experimental scene - there has always been just a small group of people actively participating - here in greece. There is no ground for genuine evolution yet, even though we're beginning to think that some people are occasionaly touched by our folk tunes.

Have you collaborated/will you collaborate with artists from abroad?

We've already had split releases with Slasher Risk (New York), Fossils (Ontario), Blastocyst (New York), Placenta Popeye (France).

Name an artist with whom you would like to perform

Panagiotis wishes REVERSE MOUTH could open for Aerosmith. "Aerosmith is like the best mega group ever. Like totally. Steven is so cool, wish we could hung out backstage with a loaded six-pack and a bunch of telltales."

any plans for the future?

We just finished recording our first full length studio album. There will be various upcoming cdr and tape releases and a couple of gigs - you can check www. myspace. com/reversemouth.

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SONOLOGIK


Bio

Luc Messinezis, also known as Sonologik, is a sound artist from Piraeus, Greece. Coming from a scientific academinc background he studied in parallel music composition. He was also intrigued by sound, its attributes and the potential it provides for exploration and expression. He was a keyboardist and singer in various bands until 2007 when he decided to engage with the sound arts. He is involved in a variety of creative projects composing music and sound design for films, producing electro-acoustic and audiovisual work. He is currently working on a multispeaker installation piece entitled wunderkammer - The sound cabinet of curiosities.

In his own words:

"It started in a womb, Where I was hearing things and I could not see anything. It continued with birth, When I heard something that made me cry. Then I made a sound and I heard laughter. I'll make another, Just before I die... and then go silent... ... maybe for the first time... Sound is the first contact of a human being with the world. The infant, eyes shut, receives the sounds and dreams of a world awaiting. Realizing the importance and using the medium of sound, SoNoLogiK is an attempt to explore the boundaries between reality and imagination. Sound Composition, phonography, sound design, installation art and audiovisual works are some of the ways to trigger feelings, messages and sensations. Waves and particles, harmonies and noises, objects and metamorphoses, are starting materials for a journey of exploration aiming to unfold stories yet to be told about a world that is changing and the shift of the position the individual occupies within it".

http://www.myspace.com/sonologik

http://sonologik.com/ (under construction)

http://soundcabinetofcuriosities.blogspot.com/

(7-1 QUESTIONS)

Name one album that was very influential for the creation of your sound/project

It would be impossible to name just one album. The character of each work is a result of the experiences, emotional condition, planned concepts and the sum of influences at the given time. Terms like realism, surrealism or chaos and algorythm have shaped the identity of my practice. I could only mention artists and works that I like but I could not say if these influenced my music as composing for me is balancing process between logic and the unconcious.

Lilipoupoli (Lena Platonos), If I die Idie (Virgin prunes), Portishead (Portishead) and contemporary classical Composers is what comes first to my mind.

Name an influential gig

Just because I watched her recently... Bjork

What do you think you can offer/change in the Greek music scene/reality ?


Greek music should open up and extend its ears. The composers should stop being afraid of the unknown and start experimenting more. This has happened in the past but the modern greek way of living has caused the majority of Greek composers to repeat a so called successful recipy. Such a behaviour maybe derives from the fact that the Greek market is rather small and therefore the artists should start looking to extend their practice outside the borders.

It is hard to accept the excuse that foreign music is not easily accepted in other countries when we have the recent example of Iceland introducing artists like Sigur Ros, Bjork and mum. How could I contribute? Just keep Composing I guess...

Have you collaborated/will you collaborate with artists from abroad?

Collaborations and Art do not understand borders.

Name an artist with whom you would like to perform

Massive attack

any plans for the future?

At the moment I am developing a Sound art installation called 'Wunderkammer; The Sound Cabinet of Curiosities' which is an attempt to treat sounds as objects and create a spatial composition by discarding the factor of time. This field is something that will need more exploration and I intend to develop it further in the future. Nevertheless conventional experimental composition, collaborations and performances are activities that will always appeal to me.

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Nokalypse

Bio

Nokalypse is Themis Pantelopoulos (b. 1982) from Athens, Greece. Making music since the summer of 2000 and having a deep dive into ambient and heavy beat electronica until early 2003, he was already attracted by sound collage and drone ambient music and therefore passed on to experimentation with electroacoustic and noise music in 2004. He has already released three solo albums on cd-r: Axiac Infinity(May2005, echomusic), Between trouble and desire (October 2005, phase records), Ocean of Inexistence (December 2006, triple bath) and one split album with Novasak from Denver (December 2007, swamp of pus). He has also participated in the debut album of the greek band Night on Earth. He has founded the recording label Triple Bath in September 2006.

www.myspace.com/nokalypse

nokalypse@yahoo.gr

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Spyweirdos

Bio

Name : Spyros Polychronopoulos

(spyweirdos)


Generally :

He was born in Athens at 1980 and started making music at 1993.
He has been part of many projects for sounds scapes , mastering and composing music.
He is post graduate of physics and now working on his phd on acoustics (noise reduction / noise control)

Cooperation’s :

Alva Noto (Germany/Raster Noton) , Murcof (Mexico/the Leaf records) , Panacea (Germany/Ad Noiseam) , John Mourjopoulos (Greece/Ano Kato Records), Funckarma (Holland/Delicatessen records,On records) , Ollie Olsen (Australia/PsyHarmonics,Creative Space) , Floros Floridis (Greece/Ano Kato Records), B. Fleischmann (Germany/morr music) , Horchata (USA/ Ad Noiseam) , Traject (Iceland/ Special Material) , Hecq (Germany/Hymen Records,Metropolis) , Mad EP (USA/ Ad Noiseam) , Wilt (USA/Ad Noiseam) , Larvae (USA/Ad Noiseam) , Snog (Australia/ Metropolis Records) , Nam Shub Of Enki (Australia/Weird Music Society, Creative Space) , Metropol (Spain/Hymen, Creative Space) , ADJ (UK/Touchin bass ,AI recs , Pyramid Transmissions)


Releases :

albums (lp):

2008 Spyweirdos, John Mourjopoulos & Floros Floridis- epistrophy at
Utopia
2008 Spyweirdos- ten numbers
2006 Spyweirdos- wetsound orchestra
2005 Spyweirdos–for children to play
2003 Spyweirdos–fairytale
2000 Weird Alchemy–wired alchemy
1999 Weird Alchemy–turtle rocket


albums (ep):

2006 Spyweirdos - loftcase limited vinyl
mastering by Bola (Skam records)
2007 Spyweirdos & Larvae 2 * 3inch cds
mastering by Murcof (Leaf records)


Tracks on compilations :
2007 Spyweirdos-the key(Funckarma rmx)
2006 Snog-king of hate
(Spyweirdos remix)
2003 Weird Alchemy–f system
2003 Spyweirdos-lost in the woods
2003 Spyweirdos-everything
2002 Weird Alchemy-aftertouch
2002 Spyweirdos-soryps
2001 Weird Alchemy-digital love with
fine automation
2000 Weird Alchemy–red is like green


Coming soon :

• October 2008 Spyweirdos – ten letters album (audio cd + video dvd) • Spyweirdos & Funckarma album • Spyweirdos & Floridis album


contact: spyweirdos@yahoo.gr / www.spyweirdos.com / http://www.myspace.com/spyweirdos /


(7-1 questions)

Name an influential gig

I would have to say that I like any live set that it's not based on the

show part of it but in the music. If a live set has other things, like video, dancing or any other kind of performance, to help the musician communicate better to the audience it’s fine. But music has to be strong enough to stand on it’s own. So I like any live set that has strong music.

spyweirdos live

I nowadays play with audio cubes as long as I’m playing alone as Spyweirdos. But when I play with Mourjopoulos & Floridis I use more than that.

What do you think you can offer/change in the Greek music scene/reality ?

Nothing. The music is already put there for everybody. Most of the people worldwide listen to pop music. Nowadays almost all the mainstream music is pop music, there is no mainstream Greek music there is pop music with Greek vocals on it, that’s all. What are we (musicians like me) dealing here is that a small amount of people would like to hear something deferent than pop music. I make music for this very small amount of people so I really do not believe that I can change something, massive mainstream music is very strong. It’s more or less like government, religion, class, fashion and any other thing that makes us all one mass, passively accepting anything no critical thinking.

Have you collaborated/will you collaborate with artists from abroad?

Sure this is global music so that’s how we should deal with it. I have already worked with Alva Noto (Germany/Raster Noton), Murcof (Mexico/the Leaf records), John Mourjopoulos (Greece/Ano Kato Records), Funckarma (Holland/Delicatessen records,On records), Ollie Olsen (Australia/PsyHarmonics,Creative Space), Floros Floridis (Greece/Ano Kato Records), B. Fleischmann (Germany/morr music), Horchata (USA/ Ad Noiseam), Traject (Iceland/ Special Material), Hecq (Germany/Hymen Records,Metropolis), Mad EP (USA/ Ad Noiseam), Larvae (USA/Ad Noiseam), Snog (Australia/ Metropolis Records), Nam Shub Of Enki (Australia/Weird Music Society, Creative Space), Metropol (Spain/Hymen, Creative Space).

Name an artist with whom you would like to perform

I already played with a few I really like.

Any plans for the future?

I now focus on these two releases on Creative Space records. The first release will be “ten letters” album, an audio cd & video dvd like “ten numbers” (previous release on the same label), the second release will be the album with Floros Floridis on Creative space as well. Both pf them will be out in 2008. As for 2009 I have some plans but nothing is 100% sure yet so I’d rather not say.

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Stavros Gasparatos

Bio

Stavros Gasparatos was born in Patras in 1975. He studied classical and jazz guitar at the “Fillipos Nakas” music conservatory. He also has a degree in mechanical engineering from the technological university of Patras. Since 1997, Stavros Gasparatos has been working as a music composer, arranger, producer and sound engineer. In 1998, together with Alexandros Tsilfidis, they founded the music group “gyro gyro” releasing tree albums featuring musicians like B.L. Reiniger, N. Kypourgos and others. The last seven years Stavros Gasparatos is composing music for theater and dance performances, working with many directors, choreographers and theater groups (Viky Georgiadou – Amore, Chris Lyngas – Protes Yles. Nikaiti Kountouri – Theater Roes, Giannis Parskevopoulos – Nasional Theater, www.amorphy.org - Theatro tou neou kosmou and dock 11 Berlin, Takis Tzamarias - Theater politia, Thodoris Abazis – Thiseio, Lili Meleme – National Theater, Stathis Livathinos –Hellenic Festival, Vangelis Theodoropoulos – Theatro tou neou kosmou and Hellenic Festival, Konstantinos Arvanitakis – National Theater, Diagoras Chronopoulos – Art Theater and others) as well as for cinema (A Bright Shining Sun / Vassilis Loules, Oxygen / Repas-Papathanasiou, Utopia / X. Karipides, working with NKypourgos, Destroy all brains / D. Emmanouilides, Lebestod / Stahis). In 2006 he participated as a member of the dance ensemble Amorphy.org (as music composer and sound designer) in the E.U. program i-map (Integration of Media, Arts and Performance), working with: De Waag institute (Amsterdam), Interspace Media Center (Sofia), Interaktionslabor (Gotelsbork)

http://www.myspace.com/stavrosgasparatos

(7-2 questions)

Name one album that was very influential for the creation of your sound/project

It is impossible to think of just an album. I am influent from completely different albums. From really classical once (Bach is my favorite) to staff like Schnittke, Xenakis or alva noto, ikenta, venetian snares or really pop things. I think that it is important to be open and take things from different stiles of music.

Name an influential gig

I have been to a lot of concerts but if I had to choose one it would be the concert of B. L. Raininger and Steven Brown in Rodon (ex tuxedomoon) i think in 1997. I don t know why...

What do you think you can offer/change in the Greek music scene/reality ?

I don’ t believe I can change anything. What one could do (and I hope I am), is to be honest with oneself, and to try to write music by being always true to one's vision and to what gives him/her pleasure rather than to what the others expect to hear.

Have you collaborated/will you collaborate with artists from abroad?

As it obvious from my the title of my album “Rehearsals” I write a lot of music for theater and dance. So really soon I will be traveling with some of the companies ( I' ll fly to Honk Kong in October and to London in January, with “seeking Oedipus”), and I am discussing about a collaboration with a dance company in London but lets see..

any plans for the future?

Now I am working on the soundtrack for three plays in Greece and I am also setting up a live set with two more musicians (Violin- chelo) for playing “Rehearsals” live.

What I would really want is to have the time to really work on my live performances and to be able to play more gigs and to tour.

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