Info:
Satiriko Theatre Basement
(Vladimiros Kafkarides St. 11-15, Aglantzia)
Ticket prices: €12 (3 May) - €15 (10 May) - €10 (17 May)
Info and pre-sale: 7000 7610
Doors 9
μ.μ.
LOUVANA PROUDLY PRESENTS:
‘BASEMENT SESSIONS’
Louvana welcomes May with a special series of musical events in
collaboration with Satiriko Theatro in Aglantzia. Louvana will be using
the basement of this exceptional venue for the appropriately named
"Basement Sessions". Six ensembles will perform in pairs for the first
three Thursdays of May, giving each evening a different musical
character, always keeping to the standards of Louvana's high artistic
quality.
Programme:
Thursday 3 May
Sancho 003
(GR)
+support: Chris & Terry
- After a mind-blowing performance at Lefkosia Loop Festival where
they sold out their album in a matter of minutes, they return to present
their second album, which will be released at the end of April by the
Greek records label, Inner Ear. It is, of course, the band of violinist Fotis Siotas
and guitarist Kostas Pantelis
from Greece,
both members of Thanasis Papakonstantinou's band. Here the do something
completely different. Sancho 003 have made live looping an art of the
highest level, achieving their own unique sound, full of dreamy
soundscapes, intense outbreaks and ethereal melodies.
Support for the evening come from Chris & Terry
from Limassol, an improvisational act, which uses analogue synths and drum machines.
The musical idioms that would best describe this first night of the series is ambient, cinematic, electronic and psychedelic.
Webpage:
www.facebook.com/sancho003
Thursday 10 May
Stelafi
+support: Pavlina Constantopoulou
- They released their first album "O Siderokoftis" with Louvana Diskoi
last fall, receiving amazing reviews and rightfully being called one of
the best production works to ever come out of Cyprus. Sticking to their
8-piece band, Stelafi (singer/actress Stella Fyrogeni, singer/guitarist
Lefteris Moumtzis and percussionist Andreas Trachonitis), backed by
Pavlos Michaelides (violin), Mario Michael (bass), Dimitris Kakavoulis
(keys), Mike Michael (trumpet, horn) and Demetris Yiasemides (trombone,
flute) are here to prove that Siderokoftis is more than capable to take
off, even from a basement.
- Pavlina Konstantopoulou we know very well from her participation in
various groups such as: The Kafeney Quartet, The Handmade, from the
nights dedicated to the music of Hadjidakis with Pavlos Michaelides, as
well as her collaboration with Elias Vamvakousis on the album "Eimai Zen
kai me Tarazeis". In the "Basement Sessions" she makes a fresh start as
she will be opening the evening with more personal material, using her
incredible voice and guitar skills, supported by Manos Mathioudakis on
bass and Yiannos Kyriakides on drums.
-
Webpage:
www.facebook.com/stelafi
Thursday 17
May
Rite of Passage
+support: Isaac’s Cello
- Rite of Passage came to existence out of mutual need. They are
influenced by the circumstances and realities of their environment, the
mechanisation of life, the lowering of the quality of all types of
nourishment-both physical and intellectual- mass endorsed apathy to
everything only to name a few, and the way in which this is also
purported through mass, produced-mass consumed music
Hence the
mutual need of the members to escape these widespread mentalities,
predominant in music-making at present and search for new ground on new
founding principles, while provoking all listening to abolish these
norms within them, through an intense sound, analogue effects and
rhythmic complexity.
This will be the first appearance of the trio for 2012, within which they are getting ready to release their first album.
It’s been a year since the youthful band Isaac’s Cello
have released their debut with Louvana Diskoi. They have joined forces
with Rite of Passage, another two times and since then, they have
appeared at Schoolwave Festival in Cyprus and Greece. They also return
after a long absence from the live since to complete this unique evening
of psych – prog – rock.
Webpage:
www.myspace.com/riteofpassageband
All the shows will feature live visuals by Giorgos Ioannou
(Static Noise)
