The Sound of Color Sessions #1
For the fifth consecutive year, once a month, Jannis Anastasakis invites at KET various musicians and visual artists to improvise and create an in situ audiovisual project.
In the November session he invites Gilad Atzmon (saxophone), Dimitris Klonis (drums), Jannis Papadopoulos (keys) and Natalia Manta (live visuals).
Gilad Atzmon
Gilad Atzmon is a British Jazz artist and author. Gilad was born in Israel in 1963 and trained at the Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem (Composition and Jazz). A multi-instrumentalist he plays saxophones, clarinet and ethnic woodwind instruments . His album Exile was the BBC jazz album of the year in 2003. He was described by John Lewis at the Guardian as the “hardest-gigging man in British jazz.” Atzmon tours extensively around the world. His albums, of which he has recorded fifteenth albumsto date, often explore political themes and the music of the Middle East. As a member of the Blockheads, Gilad has also recorded and performed with Ian Dury, Robbie Williams, Sinead O’Connor and Paul McCartney. Gilad has also recorded with Robert Wyatt, the Water Boys. In 2014 he recorded with Pink Floyd and is featured on their last album The Endless River (Anisina).
www.gilad.co.uk
Dimitris Klonis
Dimitris Klonis was born in Athens in 1984. By the age of 14 he begins his studies on the drumset under the guidance of Petros Daktilidis. Later on the great John Floros enters his life and as a result he passes him the drumming knowledge and legacy that he was taught from the great master Alan Dawson. In 2010 and slightly after Dimitris’ graduation from National Technical University of Athens, he is immediately accepted in Conservatorium Van Amsterdam but also in Rotterdam Jazz Academy. He studies for a very short period in Amsterdam where he had the chance to take lessons from Lucas Van Merwijk, Maurcel Serierse and Victor Oskam. He has also studied jazz harmony with Gregory Batsis and holds a degree in harmony (2009) and a degree in counterpoint (2012). He has attended clinics an private lessons with giants like Adam Nussbaum, Kendrick Scott, Jojo Mayer and Akira Jimbo. Within the years he has collaborated with great local jazz musicians such as Yiotis Samaras, George Kontrafouris, Pantelis Mpenetatos, Takis Paterelis, Kostas Konstantinou, Dimitris Sevdalis and Vasso Dimitriou as well as some foreign artists like Femi Temowo(Roots,Amy Winehouse), Michael Weisberger(Milo Z), Aline de Lima, Adedeji Adetayo, Yoel Soto. He has also collaborated with Foivos Delivorias, Martha Fritzila, Petros Theotokatos and Doros Dimosthenous. He currently lives in Athens, where he is envolved in lots of projects, gigging, recording and teaching.
Jannis Papadopoulos
Jannis Papadopoulos was born in Athens in 1987. He graduated from the Experimental Music High School of Pallini. He has participated in small groups of the ERT Youth Orchestra. He is a graduate of the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University, in the direction of jazz, with professors: Dimitris Kalantzis, Giorgos Contrafouris, Dimos Dimitriadis. He has attended seminars with leading artists on the international Jazz scene, such as: Dave Liebman, Jonathan Kreisberg, Αrmen Donelian, Jari Perkiomaki, Jukkis Uotila, Sheila Jordan, Chico Freeman, Mark Murphy, Giorgos Contrafouris, Sami Amiri, Thomas Clausen, Gianni Lenoci. In 2009 he represented the Ionian University at the 19th International Conference of IASJ (International Association of Schools of Jazz) in Lucerne. He has given numerous concerts in Greece with renowned greek artists (Takis Paterelis, Dimos Dimitriadis, Giorgos Fakanas, Vassilis Rakopoulos, Alexandros Ktistakis, etc.) and the international jazz scene (J.D. Walter, Manfred Schoof, Jean-Loup Lognon, Tivon Pennicott etc.). He is a founding member of the Next Step Quintet with which they have recorded two albums, and he is also involved in many different groups of the local scene.
Natalia Manta
Natalia Manta was born in 1994 in Athens. She was admitted to the School of Fine Arts in the category “Talents”, where she studied during the period 2011 – 2016. Entering the School in 2011, at the age of 17, she wins the second prize in a sculpture competition in Italy titled “Study of Public Space”. She studied with professor George Lappas in the Second Sculpture Lab. She completed her studies and curated her undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Aphrodite Liti. Graduated with a Bachelors Degree of 9.5 (nine and five). She has participated in group exhibitions in Greece and abroad and made her first solo exhibition in October 2017 at the Kappatos Gallery in Athens.
Jannis Anastasakis
Jannis Anastasakis is considered to be in a league of his own as a guitar player, improvisor and soundscape artist in Greece. His unique, in-depth approach of the guitar as an ambient sound generator, and the extended use of effects (he is also the builder and designer of the JAM pedals) and analog synths, results in a very personal sound and delivery, that sets him apart from all other players in his country. He is coming up with unique and fresh sounds that take the music from ambient to psychedelic and off limits to new territory. He has collaborated with great artists such as: Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Christian Fennesz, Gilad Atzmon, Thodoris Rellos, Savina Yannatou, Floros Floridis, Michalis Siganidis, Lena Platonos, Harris Lambrakis, Haig Yazdjian, Dionysis Savopoulos to name a few.
www.jannisanastasakis.com