REBETICORE
Tasos Stamou: acoustic bouzouki / electric bouzouki / synth bouzouki
Stephanos Chytiris: percussion
Panos Charalambous: performance
New project by Tasos Stamou in the footsteps of “DAD” (Discrepant 2019) and the duet he formed with Thodoris Ziarkas (“AMAN!!!! “, Discrepant/ Sucata Tapes, 2018, 2019), “Rebeticore” tests, deconstructs and restructures the rebetiko form, between punk noise and electroacoustic music, highlighting the transcendental elements that it usually loses in its more established interpretations.
The sound of the bouzouki, acoustic or refracted by electronic means and noisy abstract rhythms, paradoxical choruses and urban soundscapes, creates a sonic event in which contemporary expression offers a new reading of rebetiko. The project is accompanied by percussionist and improviser Stephanos Chytiris and visual and sound artist Panos Charalambous.
Tasos Stamou is a composer of contemporary electroacoustic music and improviser. His relocation to the UK a decade ago shaped his music towards the assimilation of new innovative currents and the search for an imaginary and nostalgic Greekness. In recent years, he has increasingly turned towards the confluence of these two trends, through a trilogy of electro-acoustic music influenced by Greek musical tradition (Musique Con Crete / DAD / Antiqua Graecia). His CV counts over 300 live performances and recordings. He has collaborated with numerous musicians from the field of improvisation and exploratory music (Adam Bohman, Anna Homler, Steve Beresford, Sharon Gal, Mike Cooper, etc.).
Panos Charalambous is known in the domestic art world for his works inspired by both his personal and modern Greek folk history. His fame is also expanding abroad, culminating in his participation in the Greek Pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2019 with the work “Ena aetos kathotane”. He has also served the arts as a lecturer and Dean at the Athens School of Fine Arts for an extended period of time.
Drummer Stephanos Chytiris grew up in Athens and completed his musical studies in America. He has participated in many groups of the New York improvisation scene, while developing his own works, in collaboration with Bram De Looze, Luca Rosenfeld, Daniel Carter, Ingrid Laubrock, Todd Neufeld, Pascal Niggenkemper, Billy Mintz or Tony Malaby. Produced by drummer Michael Carvin, “Flux Project-Pyr|n” (2014 ) is his first album. In March 2017, he released with a seven-piece band the album “Egata”, where the instruments meet in specific tonalities, with short intermittent phrases and coordinated flourishes.