I'm happy 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!
If there is any problem with the players on this site, you can
find almost all available music also
on Soundcloud.
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.
Artwork created for the tracks or inspired by them is now available online...
A very much appreciated and cherished review of the "Supernova" album by Timothy Buss...
Please feel free to use for any project proposal, creative idea or just to comment or share your thoughts on the music found here.
An eggplant creative site.
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.
Images & artwork that I've created through the years either for my music here or was inspired by the same themes and needs is now available for print-on-demand both on Society6.com as well as on Redbubble.com on various sizes, print materials & objects.
A very much appreciated and cherished review of the "Supernova" album by Timothy Buss of the Indie Habit (by Indie Music Bus) all the way back from Apr 06, 2015.
Finally recovered from the "deep" via the wayback machine! since
the indiehabit. com site has been offline for some years now.
You can
read it here,
Thanks again Timothy for linstening (throughout) and caring!
Rainy days, both inside & out... time for change... life choices and decisions... Diverse feelings & thoughts overflow, fear of risk, of the unknown and failure, but also a liberating sense of renewal and purpose. Time for a leap of faith?
At times like these I often seek advice and courage in the words of fellow seekers, thoughtful adventurers and in a sense “life gamblers”. Who better to share a few much needed drinks on the subject than Charles Bukowski – his life according to inner purpose grants him the expertise, and his words will encourage without sugarcoating it... the first move is in your hands… roll the dice, proposes one that did.
Roll the Dice by Charles Bukowski
The poem is read by Tom O'Bedlam - in his unique and most
appropriately ambiguous manner in my opinion. You can find more of
his captivating
poetry readings on Youtube.
With my long time musical collaborator and friend Utopia on vocals on most of the tracks, plus her beautiful cover artwork, and the contribution of Chris (Mastrokristo) Parapagidis on mixing & mastering, as well as guitar on "Calma".
Supernova consists of diverse pieces I 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.
The first draft for a small soundtrack for this short film by Konstantinos Fragkopoulos.
Even thought it never made it to be the official soundtrack of the short, I kind of fell in love with it during the creative process - for its silences & climax as well as the interaction of sound and image - and therefore I always include it as an interesting example of audio/visual synergy and inspiration.
"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 intrinsically experimental project based on the collection of poems by William Blake of the same title.
The two samples below are just that, showcasing the approach and effort to capture the intuitive & esoteric nature of the work - the project 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).