Lefkosia Loop Festival 2015
10-11 January 2015
Egomio Cultural Center
For the fourth consecutive year, Louvana Records is organising Lefkosia Loop Festival, which this year is hosting nine music groups and one contemporary dance act. The artists come from Cyprus, Greece and Italy. For the first time the festival is collaborating with Klubd, where more perrformances are going to take place, while the main part of the festival is going to take place for the first time at Egomio Cultural Center, in Egomi.
This is a one of its kind festival, which focuses on the technique of Live Looping, which means creating and recording musical phrases on stage, and developing them using more phrases, different instruments and improvisations.
Note that with the 2-day festival ticket, entry at the Klubd event will be free.
ARTISTS DESCRIPTION:
Sender Flos (ITA)
Sender & Flos the collaboration between Stefano Moretti (aka Sender) and Flos the duo comprising of Stefano Castagna and Luca Formentini.
The result is a very emotionally rich, immersive, yet dynamic sound made possible by their diverse approach to music composition.
While Sender is using analog synths and drum machines, Flos are working on self made sound sources, conventional instruments and different ways of processing sounds.
A collaboration album of Sender & Flos is expected to be released at the beginning of 2015.
Sancho 003 (GR)
It’s the, now very well known and loved from the Cypriot music fans, duet of Fotis Siotas (violin, viola, synth, voice) and Kostas Pantelis (guitars). They compose and perform music based on two instruments and two loop stations synced manually, producing a very unique musical result, which has established them as pioneers in the style of synthesis using the live looping technique.
erma [ballast] (GR)
Choreography, Performance: Athanasia Kanellopoulou
Concept, music/sound composition, performance: Thimios Atzakas
Video, Set Design, light design: Alexandros Seitaridis
The piece deals with the fragmentation of the "self" and the cracks that have opened in the physical and spiritual unity of consciousness.
'Erma' means the ballast mass of hardware, rocks and other materials, to provide draft hulls of boats, offsetting the uneven parts of the vessel hull and ensuring the stability and robust navigation. The two characters of this show navigate in their own sea, through continuous emergence and diving to their personal ballast, acting and reacting to their memory.
The spiritual concerns, the urge, the longing for freedom, the desire for fulfillment, the unsatisfied soul, are transformed into sound and lead constantly in agony for a refund on the indissoluble unity.
All this, with vehicle the human body, in conjunction with the live musical performance through a kaleidoscopic sound installation.
Noizedelic Folk (GR)
solo live looping session by Stamatis Fousekis
"Noizedelic folk" is a human-technological solo project that depends on groove, melodic lines, psychedelia and digital noise. A multicellular organism with double bass, guitar and laptop as its vital organs.
Sometake (CY)
The music of Some Take is influenced by the electronic, post rock and cinematic genres. Using synthesizers, samplers, loop station and drum kit, they try to create sonic scapes using and electronic and organic sounds. The band members are Markos Ioannou (drums), Yiorgos Kleanthous (keys) and Yiorgos Constantinou (sampling).
Spen-D (GR)
Giannis Karathanos is a fourth year music student at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has performed and recorded with various bands and artists in the city, a process which lead him to the creation of project "Spen-D". At Lefkosia Loop Festival he will be presenting original compositions based on guitar loops and effect pedals. In "Spen-D", his loops mainly result from the superimposition of rhythmic and melodic patterns, whose nature as independent elements transforms when they are combined with one another.
Stylistically, his music is a mixture of the different musical influences he has had over the years.
Παναγιώτης Μηνά [pan] (CY)
::|blastic pullets|:: an album in progress
Pan has been experimenting with non-musical techniques such as chanting phrases of the zeitgeist and lying to the audience since 1995. With his avant-punk band 'spoko' he used a megaphone to recite the indications of antidepressants on live television while an out of tune / out of sync guitar riff was uttering. At a warehouse ('konteiner') he was improvise-typing and projecting it on a wall, as the heavily distorted drone sounds from 5 speakers were playing to an audience with ear plugs.
He recently produced a diy hip hop music video which he presented in Belgrade and composed music for the choreography piece "orfeas" performed at 'park in progress Nicosia'.
Pan uses an array of physical and electronic instruments such as guitars, sequencers and synthesizers to assemble samples, frequencies and singing, into 'songs'.
www.paaaan.com
The Noise of Making (CY)
by Giorgos Sisamos
with Sahand & Navid Gholipour and special guest Alkis Agathocleous
A performance based on the audio-visually interesting act of constructing, using no visuals (as projections or video) and no conventional instruments, only the organic sounds produced by the actions happening on stage.
The group is looping and sampling the sounds of the two “workers” constructing a real functional object, as if they were in their workshop. With their tools as instruments they unveil the magnificent sounds hidden behind the materials and tools they use (metal, plastic or wood) covering a wide pallet of the sonar spectrum. Drill machines, sand papers, hammers, cutters and grinders, circular saw blades, stable guns, orchestrated through looping along with the birth of an object.
Plain History
Plain History is a unique music project which explores sound with imagination, using analogue synthesizers, drum machine, bass and effects and loop stations. The core of the group consists of Chris & Terry and MouseFace, with Demetris Yiasemides as a frequent collaborator on woodwinds. They have appeared in many festivals like Fengaros, Lefkosia Loop Festival, Xarkis, Animafest gaining amazing reviews. Currently they are recording their first single to be released early in 2015.
For the performance at Klubd they will focus on the more dance – techno side of their music
Janis Plasmatik
Janis is one of the main DJs at the only electronic dance music club in Lefkosia, Klubd, as well as its artistic director. He has played alongside big names of the house/techno scene like Sammy Dee, Sonja Moonear, Dandy Jack, Praslea and more recently Petre Inspirescu and Rhadoo, to name a few. His musical influences as well as his selections derive from the minimal side of underground house and deep techno.
Sponsors: Ministry of Education and Culture, studio eleven63, Prozak Kafenio, Crepaland
Supporters: Klubd, Egomio Cultural Center, Frederick Institute of Technology (Audio Visual Communication)
Communication Sponsors: Parathryo, Street Art Radio
