new entry in this very exciting 3″ series from more mars. Once again, quite limited at a run of 120 copies. This one is a recording by Costis Drygianakis. One of the most important people in the greek experimental music community of the late 80s and onwards, Drygianakis has acted both as a composer and as the artistic director of the influential label “Δίσκοι ΕΔΩ” (EDO records). For this release, he contributes a track that is based on the music composed for the installation by Manolis Yiannadakis with the same title (diadromi -tr: itinerary), that was presented in the Mylos Gallery, Thessaloniki, in January 2000. The material has been re-composed for the purpose of this release.

http://www.moremars.org/release-costis_drygianakis.html

Tags: costis drygianakis, diadromi, manolis yiannadakis, more mars, nous series

ok, this is what a proper label headquarters looks like when you’ve got new releases coming up (and probably much worse, mind you). You definitely have no space for yourself to sleep on the bed (let alone your dog, cat, or, god-forbid, your girlfriend). And this is apparently what more mars‘ hq looks like these days, as they have not one but two new editions on their 3″ nous series. All the better for us!

these two, very lovely, quite limited (120 each), 3″ releases are:

Chris Heenan + Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga – Der schlaue fushs [web] [excerpt]
Yiannis Tsirikoglou – Dust [web] [vimeo]

the first one being an improvised duo from US-born, Berlin-based sax/clarinet player Chris Heenan and our very own zither player, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, while the second one is a construction that resulted from an audio/visual collaboration that Yiannis Tsirikoglou had with artist Mariska De Groot.

Chris is an improviser/composer/promoter/member in various groupings. Dimitra is best known for her collaboration with Ferran Fages in ap’strophe, but more and more these days as a solo artist as well. Yiannis is known for his part in the Thessaloniki-based band, eventless plot, but has been lately spending time on his own in The Hague.

more here:
http://www.moremars.org/news.html

Tags: chris heenan, dimitra lazaridou-chatzigoga, mariska de groot, more mars, nous series, yiannis tsirikoglou