I'm really delighted you reached my audioworks site - after all, as with all art, the point of making music is to share it (at least in my opinion).
So please turn your speakers on (or better yet, put your headphones on).
The music that you already hear playing is from my latest project, If you'd like to find out more please scroll down.
Hope you enjoy!
Being a music-lover for as long as I can remember, it wasn't long until I picked up a guitar and thereafter anything with music-creation potential and started experimenting. Although I always appreciated and thoroughly enjoyed the visual arts - which lead to me becoming a professional graphic designer - it was the unique immaterial and therefore "mystical" quality of music that captivated & touched my soul.
While playing guitar & electric bass guitar in various psychedelic, rock, blues, fusion bands in my adolescent years, I gradually outgrew the notion that "good" music can fall into specific categories or genres. Freedom (as free as sound is) to mix and match, to experiment, in order to communicate emotions and "explore" the world & the human psyche seems imperative to me. Fortunately the digital era was just around the corner at the time, bringing with it all necessary tools, further inspiration and rejuvenation of the music-creation process.
After briefly being a member of the Greek trip-hop band "Freedom of speech" and contributing to the band's first CD release - I currently work on various projects, both personal as well as in collaboration with fellow musicians & artists, including music production for short films (documentary & fiction) and sound design for theatrical plays or performances.
My home-base is in Athens (Greece) and I'm always eager to participate in music/audio related endeavors and collaborations, especially those of an experimental nature. So if you find some of the music here interesting or appropriate for some creative idea or project don't hesitate to contact me below.
Most of the music I produce doesn't fall into specific categories or genres, and even when it does those will differ substantially from project to project, ranging from post rock to electronic or purely experimental sound-scapes.
So this play list contains pieces from various projects and of different musical forms, in hope of providing a handy tool for you to quickly scan through pinpointing albums or projects that might interest you the most and afterwards locating them in the "projects" section below.
Important notes on the current state of the site & contents...
Please feel free to use for any project proposal, creative idea or just to comment or share your thoughts on the music found here.
The first exhibition of the most recent visual project of Utopia, long time musical companion and co-member of "Hope springs eternal", took place in Athens at Soiree de Votanique.
More information on the project as well as glimpses of the artwork and videos presented can be found here.
It is of these paintings that, not only the cover of our latest album, but also the very title "Supernova" derived. Beside the paintings two videos consisting of animated details of the works and music from the album were for the first time publicly presented.
The site is still under development, and here are a few important notes that clearify what might not be obvious in it's current state.
Fisrt of all, I'm happy you found your way here regardless, but do please note that:
That's all for now. If you want to contact me please do not hesitate to use the site contact form - or leave a comment below.
With my long time musical collaborator and friend Utopia on vocals on most of the tracks, plus the beautiful cover artwork, and the contribution of Chris (Fidel) Parapagidis on mixing & mastering, as well as guitar on "Calma".
Supernova consists of diverse pieces produced between 2010 and 2014, ranging from the post rock sounds of "hold on the mountain" and "of poppy fields" to the electronic "from the past"...
The album is also available in high-definition audio files, instead of the mp3s provided below, which you can download for free here (select buy now and then just enter zero in the price field - or if you choose you can donate to support us).
A cover of the original 1987 Depeche Mode song, from their album " Music for the Masses".
An almost effortless, at the time, re-imagining of the orchestration introducing break-beat rhythmic elements that seemed to "naturally" find their place in the structure, the mesmerising vocals of Utopia, and an appropriate to the emotion of the song gradual conclusion, have unexpectantly made this one of my all time favorite interpretations (among the numerous this song already has).
A night spent near the top of mountain in southern greece... the eerie darkness and magnificent dawn ... the climb and descent, gave birth to this piece and a couple more (not yet finished).
Separation brings always a heavy load of mixed and traverse emotions. Estrangement, hostility, loneliness...
Recorded at such a time, a phone message sprang this piece of music, memory & life, now forever intertwined.
I'm sorry the actual sampled message is in Greek, and therefore won't make sense to none Greek speaking listeners - still I thought the music might carry over enough of the emotion, that's why I kept it in the English version of the site.
"Pass par 2" is the moniker under which myself and fellow experimental musician Nik Xol release common or individual projects.
This single is a two piece excerpt from our not yet completed "Projections" album.
Track 1, "projection 4" was based upon and contains parts of a poem by the avant-garde poet, musician and composer Louis Thomas Hardin (a.k.a. Moondog).
A video art project by Constantina Forou (Utopia) accompanied by a composition of mine.
Image and music intertwined seeking to accentuate perception of emotional expression in the motion of plant-life (caused by the invisible natural force of the wind) and correlate this observation to the human condition, the unseen forces & inevitable events that equally seem to govern and forge our lives.
An experimental project An experimental project based on the collection of poems by William Blake.
The samples below are just that, showcasing the approach - work is still pretty much in progress...
Inspired by Fritz Lang's 1927 Metropolis, as part of a still ongoing project for an electronic soundtrack for the film.
Due to audio compression on Youtube I also provide the separate audio file below (available for downloading too).