saturday november the 6th @ knot gallery (mihalakopoulou 206 st & pyrrou st,
athens)

as usual it was born out of a joke, better say a question while arranging ideas for 2011 w/ dimitra, michalis, giannis & danai during a hot august night when michalis wondered of what shall we do till 2011? the idea for an ash nav live was dropped by giannis a couple of months ago and as we both share the enthusiasm for the project’s work we were for it waiting for the right place & right time to materialize it.

the idea of prequel of absurd’s ‘bye bye butterfly’  in athens but in slight different sounds was also in mind as some friends wanted an athens thing too, so w/out second thoughts within seconds the line up was almost ready as all drove crazy w/ a line up we came up.

so add  the enthusiasm for the all girl garage sounds of the mongrelettes and the psych out ones of ashtray navigations plus a blend of earzumba’s psychotic sampladelia
and you get a freak out compendium to infinity!!!!

the mongrelettes
www.myspace.com/themongrelettes

ashtray navigations
www.myspace.com/ashtraynavigations

earzumba
www.earzumba.com

more infos soon, also through knot at http://knotarts.blogspot.com

* title taken from the john coltrane ‘infinity’ LP (being the record we’ve been listening at the moment the idea was dropped & the decision was taken http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane:_Infinity and hell couldn’t fit a better title to this ‘party’!!!!)

Tags: ashtray navigations, athens, earzumba, knot gallery, the mongrelettes

maybe you remember how a couple of months ago the noise-below crew participated as “nn+” in the tot festival that took place at knot gallery in athens (related posts here, here and here). well, nicolas already wrote about the whole thing, and today i wrote about it on my own blog (because you can never have enough of those…) here:

http://syndromesrandomcontent.blogspot.com/2010/08/nn-soundcheck.html

i also put up a recording of myself fumbling with the available equipment during the soundcheck. i ended up with a charming piece of noise + room ambience

enjoy,
kostis

NN+ soundcheck by syndromesuploadcloud

Tags: knot gallery, kostis kilymis, sites/blogs

thanks to the knot crew

Tags: a strange attractor, absurd, athens, ilan manouach, knot gallery, kostis kilymis, ku

nothing but a short post to mention a small fragment of the nn+ set that took place during the tot festival held in knot gallery on the 26th & 27th of june.
nn+ turned to be the ‘line-up’ of nektarios (a strange attractor record store), nicolas (πτώματα κάτω από το κρεββάτι records), kostis kilymis (organized music from thessaloniki). with nektarios we feel grateful somehow to mihalis kyratsous & dimitra lazaridou-hatzigoga as they dropped the idea for this set and turned to be great chacnce to do finally a duo we longed nearly 18 years to do since the last days of the greek grind/noisecore scene’s heyday back in early 90’s. back then he as a member of the grind group ‘industry of crashed conceptions’ i as ’sickness’. then wishing a kinda whitehouse tone generator noise thing that never materialized now something we liked much more to be honest as we had a host of participants like otomo hava, ilan manouach, e.a.

also just for the history and the arhives of absurd completists…during the set were smashed some 150 looper cds. for the record the cd was to be an edition of 500, i ordered back then some 600 sleeves and anastasis (of the small music theatre fame) helped w/ the cd order/ manufacturing. well i only left athens for a 4 days visit to budapest upon landin’ back the 500 cd ordered had turned to a 1000 cd one and luckily instead of 600 sleeves approx for the first time in absurd’s history had some close to 700 printed. not sure how the final edition was however some 20-30 were smashed during the old fashioned donkeys electrograph performance 4 years ago. some 100-150 were thrown into a recycle bin outside my house and some 100-120 more or less left were smashed during the nn+ thing. since then was too bored to print again sleeves for the remaining copies you see.

same holds for the tasos stamou ‘infant’ cd. by the time it was out some 60 – 70 copies were left without sleeve. if am not mistaken when the sleeves we initially bought were some 400-450 for an edition of 500-520 cds. so for 4 years too they were collecting dust in my bedroom and as i need room now for more records of my collection i simply recycled them. guess there’s more tasos stamou to be recycled sooner or later….

enjoy

Tags: a strange attractor, absurd, athens, knot gallery, kostis kilymis

an ambitious little festival coming up next week in athens…

tot 1.0 evolved from the coinciding visits of ferran fages and grundik kasyansky in athens, greece. of course it grew up to be a lot more than that, it will feature performances of said musicians together and with local musicians, a solo performance of nikos veliotis on piano, a sax and electronics set from ilan manouach & george axiotis and a kind-of “dj set” from members of this site opening the festival

hopefully the first in a series of many rich weekends

25.06.2010, 20:00, 8 Euro
FERRAN FAGES, DANAE STEFANOU,
DIMITRA LAZARIDOU CHATZIGOGA //
GRUNDIK KASYANSKY, SYRRACUSE TRIO //
NN+ //

26.06.2010, 20:00, 8 Euro
GRUNDIK KASYANSKY, FERRAN FAGES
ILAN MANOUACH, GEORGE AXIOTIS //
NIKOS VELIOTIS //

KNOT Gallery

Mιχαλακοπούλου 206 & Πύρρου (εις. από Πύρρου)
πλησιέστερος σταθμός Μετρό: Αμπελόκηποι
Λεωφορεία: Α5, Β5 (στάση ΖΑΓΟΡΑ)

http://knotarts.blogspot.com/

Tags: athens, danae stefanou, dimitra lazaridou-chatzigoga, ferran fages, giorgos axiotis, grundik kasyansky, ilan manouach, knot gallery, nikos veliotis, syrracuse trio

MICHEL DONEDA – ΙΛΑΝ ΜΑΝΟΥΑΧ
Παρασκευή 5 μαρτιου
Θεσσαλονίκη
Πρώτος Όροφος
(Ολυμπίου Διαμαντή 20.Τηλ: 2310 522587)
είσοδος δωρεάν
έναρξη 10 μμ

Σάββατο 6 μαρτιου
Ξάνθη
Σπίτι Πολιτισμού ΦΕΞ, παλιά πόλη Ξάνθης
είσοδος 5 ευρώ
έναρξη 9 μμ

Κυριακή 7 μαρτιου
Αθήνα
ΚΝΟΤ
Mιχαλακοπούλου 206 & Πύρρου (εις. από Πύρρου) Αμπελόκηποι
είσοδος 8 ευρώ
έναρξη 5 μμ (ΑΠΟΓΕΥΜΑΤΙΝΟ ΛΑΙΒ)

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Ο Ιλάν Μανουάχ καλεί για 3 συναυλίες στην Ελλάδα έναν από τους πιο δραστήριους μουσικούς της ευρωπαικής σκηνής, τον Michel Doneda.
Έμπειρος αυτοσχεδιαστής, μουσικός με πλούσιες επιρροές τόσο από την σύχρονη μουσική (Luciano Berio, Giacinto Scelsi) μέσα από την χρήση των extended techniques στο σαξόφωνο όσο και από την πανκ και το χαρντκορ (Kaoru Abe, Sonic Youth με τους οποίους και έχει συνεργαστεί) είναι ένας από τους λιγους αυτοσχεδιαστές που προτείνουν μια εκλεπτυσμένη μόρφη ηχητικής βίας. Οι μουσικές του και οι συναντήσεις αυτές έχουν θρέψει μια πλούσια δισκογραφική δράση, περιλαμβάνοντας πάνω από 50 δίσκους στο δυναμικό του.

Ο Ιλάν Μανουάχ είναι μουσικός και ασχολείται επίσης επαγγελματικά με τα πειραματικές μορφές διήγησης, Οι εικαστικές του δουλειές εκδίδονται στο Βέλγιο καθώς και σε άλλες χώρες στην Ευρώπη και ετοιμάζεται να εκδόσει το πρώτο σόλο lp.

Tags: athens, ilan manouach, knot gallery, michel doneda, thessaloniki, xanthi

mohammad
(coti k./nikos veliotis/ilios)
friday, feb 5 20:15

mecha/orga & giwrgos poulios
saturday, feb 6 20:30

ΔΔ
(danae stefanou, dimitra lazaridou-chatzigoga)
sunday, feb 7 20:00

at knot gallery
Mixalakopoulou 206 & Pyrrou
Athens

more info here: http://knotarts.blogspot.com/

Tags: athens, coti k., danae stefanou, dimitra lazaridou-chatzigoga, giwrgos poulios, ilios, knot gallery, mecha/orga, mohammad, nikos veliotis

η Αστική Μη Κερδοσκοπική Πολιτιστική Εταιρία, Knot, σας καλεί στα εγκαίνια του καινούργιου χώρου τεχνών Knot Gallery στους Αμπελόκηπους στις 21 Δεκεμβρίου

Στη διάρκεια των εγκαινίων θα πραγματοποιηθεί συναυλία των Αcte Vide
(Δανάη Στεφάνου – πιάνο, Γιάννης Κοτσώνης – live electronics)

Oι πόρτες ανοίγουν στις 7 μμ
H συναυλία ξεκινά στις 8.30μμ

Mιχαλακοπούλου 206 & Πύρρου (εις. από Πύρρου)
[πλησιέστερος σταθμός Μετρό: Αμπελόκηποι]
Λεωφορεία: 408, 419, Α5, Β5, Γ5 (στάση ΖΑΓΟΡΑ)
email: knot.arts@gmail.com

electronic invitation

knot performance group blog

Tags: acte vide, athens, knot gallery