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An active and well-balanced duo between Greek pianist based in Boston, Pandelis Karayorgis, and Greek bassist, concert organizer and publisher, George Kokkinaris, both from Athens and recording in the studio in that city, drawing on elements of contemporary music and free jazz in a mix of spontaneous dialogs, one solo improvisation from each, and three Karayorgis compositions.
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Pandelis Karayorgis-piano
George Kokkinaris-bass
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UPC: 5904224873516
Label: Driff Records
Catalog ID: CD2402
Squidco Product Code: 35168
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Artracks Studio, in Athens, Greece, on August 28th, 2023, by George Priniotakis.
"George Kokkinaris is one of the most active younger musicians currently working in Athens's improvisational and new music scenes. Besides playing a major role in organizing concerts and workshops, he also has been co-publishing the magazine NewMusic.gr, which strives to broaden the new music community scene in Greece. After spending some time in Berlin as a performer and improviser, he returned to Athens, where he has also been playing in improvisation dance settings, exploring movement, and studying contemporary dance history. More recently, he has been organizing a series of choreography and music composition workshops.
Pandelis Karayorgis, a fellow Athenian, has been living in Boston for well over thirty years pursuing a career in jazz and improvised music. This is his first collaboration with a Greek musician in that many years! Together, they find common ground in some of Karayorgis's compositions, and also in a language that is shared in contemporary music and free jazz alike."-Driff
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• Show Bio for Pandelis Karayorgis "Pandelis Karayorgis is a Boston based jazz/improvised music pianist, composer and educator. In the last twenty years mostly led or co-led numerous groups in performances at festivals and clubs in Europe and the United States and Canada. Recordings appear on labels such as Hat Art, HatOLOGY, Clean Feed, Not Two, Leo Records, Nuscope, Boxholder, Okkadisk, Cadence, Accurate, Leo Lab, Ayler and more recently on Driff Records, a new artist-run label co-founded by Pandelis Karayorgis and Jorrit Dijkstra. Some of the most extensive recording/performing collaborations have been with Nate McBride, Curt Newton, Ken Vandermark, Mat Maneri, Guillermo Gregorio, Jorrit Dijkstra, Luther Gray, Jef Charland, Randy Peterson and Dave Rempis.Pandelis Karayorgis performed and recorded with Joe Maneri, Han Bennink, Mary Oliver, Jeb Bishop, Steve Swell, Frank Rosaly, Jason Roebke, Keefe Jackson, Tony Malaby, Michael Formanek, Forbes Graham, Matt Langley, Jeff Galindo, Taylor Ho Bynum, John Lockwood and Eric Rosenthal. Also performed with Josh Abrams, Chad Taylor, Jason Adasciewicz, Jacob William, Laurence Cook, Eric Hofbauer, Jeff Parker, Tim Daisy, Jason Stein, Mike Reed, Josh Berman, Charles Waters, James Falzone, Nori Tanaka, Daniel Levin, Kresten Osgood, Jeff Platz and Charlie Kohlase. Notable projects include The Pandelis Karayorgis Quintet, The Whammies, The Pandelis Karayorgis Trio (whose first trio CD "Heart And Sack" was featured on National Public Radio's program Fresh Air), the mi3, Construction Party, System of 5, the quartet Matchbox, the large group Bathysphere and more recently, the quintet Cutout. Born in Athens, Greece in 1962, moved to Boston in 1985. Prior to that, studied piano and performed in various jazz groups in Athens while pursuing a degree in Economics. Earned BM and MM degrees in music from Boston's New England Conservatory while studying with Paul Bley, Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, Dave Holland and Joe Maneri (composition). Studied and performed extensively Thelonious Monk's and Lennie Tristano's music and in 1991 compiled a collection of all of Monk's compositions." ^ Hide Bio for Pandelis Karayorgis • Show Bio for George Kokkinaris "I play double bass, compose and improvise in order to get to know people and cultures of societies. Through my collaborations with composers, improvising with musicians, collaborating with visual artists, poets, dancers, I create performances of musical and sound representations in order to contribute to the approach of unknown or hidden roles to the human perception functions of music. My music is inspired by traditions and cultures, which hundreds of years ago to the present day perceive music as an integration of human activity and expression. My performances is based on the physicalization and humanization of music through voice and movement, while combining them with new technologies. I apply new techniques to the double bass while believing in the holistic nature of music performances with speech, dance and image. I interpret and study the classical orchestral repertoire as well as works by 20th-21st century composers from different cultures and backgrounds. I travel for concerts and collaborations abroad and also organize seminars on improvisation, Creative Music. I am part of the editorial team of the magazine "NewMusic.gr" in order to create community and develop the music scene in Greece." ^ Hide Bio for George Kokkinaris
9/11/2024
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Track Listing:
1. Sandbar 3:43
2. Stele 3:56
3. Tropon Tropon 2:30
4. Athene Noctua 2:51
5. Angry Trees Chasing Down The Light 4:44
6. Astrikon 3:54
7. Erasures 4:15
8. Mumbling Urban Poems 2:26
9. Argle-bargle 5:58
10. I Wake To Sleep, And Take My Waking Slow 3:20
11. Bumpy 2:44
12. Throughgoing Line 4:05
13. Out From Athens 4:38
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