Frantic Aerostat / Bears of the apartment building pipes

Since around 2006, Frantic Aerostat has been the main vehicle for musician Odysseas Grammatikakis. Starting from unconventional playing of musical instruments, building soundscapes with repetitive melodies and reciting poems or prose, he has released three printed and two digital albums to date.

In 2024, inspired by a short story by Julio Cortázar and with the help of a small FM synth, Odysseas and bassist Kostas Vlachos formed the duo Bears of the apartment building pipes. Every time they decide to venture out of the safety of their pipes and into the cities, the Bears collect texts, dress them up with strange beats, handmade noises, abstract guitars, and melodic bass lines, desperately trying to find answers in an era of planetary destruction.

Some of these answers, or at least a few interesting human stories, will be presented for the first time in Athens, at KET, on January 31.

www.franticaerostat.com
www.franticaerostat.bandcamp.com/track/–50
www.instagram.com/arkoudestwnagwgwn