
“Dave De Rose presents… #3”
Dave De Rose opens a monthly cycle of live performances at KET, bringing together creators and performers from the whole spectrum of the Athenian artistic community. For the third night of the season, he joins forces with Erato Tzavara (video art), Nicky Kokkoli (saxophone) and Nikos Papavranoussis (drums).
With a career that has included collaborations with renowned artists like Moloko, Mulatu Astatke, Rokia Traore, and Mark Ronson, among many others, Dave De Rose has spent the past 14 years pursuing underground music projects. He’s a core member of the space-age Gnawa project Electric Jalaba and the Athenian newborn Rave At Your Fictional Borders, as well as the director of Agile Experiments (2018-present). Agile Experiments has been well received by the underground experimental jazz community worldwide, releasing 11 LPs in 5 years. Catching the attention of the British Library’s “Sound Archive” project early on, they requested to have it in their catalog to archive and preserve the music as part of the nation’s audio and cultural heritage. Dave’s own label, DDR Records, boasts 25 independent record releases encompassing anything from ambient, songwriter-funk, free improv, jazz, and electro-acoustic techno.
Erato Tzavara is an Athens based video artist/designer specializing in moving image techniques for live performance, video design and embodiment in relation to digital media. As a video craftswoman interested in liveness, dramaturgy, and the body, she works with the plasticity of the digital image, mixing ANALOGUE aesthetics with DIGITAL COMPOSITING TOOLS to create moving collages from different visual sources in dialogue with the moving body and physical space. Through international-interdisciplinary collaborations with a focus on live performance she has been presenting work in theaters, art spaces and festivals across Europe, US and Asia. In her personal work, she draws on participatory methods, photography, video essays and somatics to capture the collective experience in relation to human and non-human Environments.
www.erato-t.com
Nicky Kokkoli was born in 1996 in Athens. An active member of the Greek jazz and free improvisational music scene, she has also performed in venues such as Fylkingen (Stockholm) and Cafe OTO (London). She has collaborated with the London Improvisers Orchestra, Sofia Jernberg, Maggie Nicols, Lisa Ullén, Christer Bothén, Martin Küchen, Bram De Looze, Sharif Sehnaoui and others. She is a member of the Swedish-Greek band Ahanes whose first album, “Petrichor”, was recently released by the legendary Clean Feed label. In recent years, she has been studying Middle Eastern music and Greek traditional music, with the aim of creating a personal musical style.
www.nickykokkoli.wixsite.com/website
Nikos Papavranoussis was born in Athens. From the age of 16, he began to play drums and play in various small groups in the mid 80’s. He started drum lessons in Athens in ’86 with Arion Kaloneos. In 1988 went to Paris to study at the Dante Agostini School of Drums, the first school of drums in Europe (Paris 1964). He graduated from the school in 1992 with the first prize “Congratulations and Congratulations” (1er Prix à l’unanimité et Félicitations) and received the diploma of Professor of the School (C.E.S.M.A.). He ia the director of the Dante Agostini drum school in Athens Greece.