Yorgos Dimitriadis Solo LP Presentation “14 20 22” / Dimitriadis & Lambrakis Duo
“The voice of my grandmother Evdoxia, the first thing you hear on the album, sets the tone. The numbers refer to years, from when she left her home in Eastern Thrace in 1914 for Thessaloniki, her return in 1920 and her final forced emigration in 1922. “14 20 22” is a very visual album. The compositions are influenced by cinematic “instants”, newspaper clippings and images of Greece from my childhood. The visual elements trigger sounds which in turn trigger images. Recordings from tapes I made some 30 years ago found their way into this work, along with field recordings and improvisations with percussion and electronics.”
On the occasion of the release of the LP “14 20 22” by Trouble In The East Records (Berlin), Yorgos Dimitriadis presents a solo set with compositions and improvisations for percussion and electronics.
In the second part of the evening, he improvises with Harris Lambrakis on the ney.
● Drummer, percussionist, electronic musician and improviser Yorgos Dimitriadis lives and works in Berlin. He performs as a soloist and in collaboration with some of the most important representatives of the international improvisational music scene (Axel Dörner, Andrea Parkins, Achim Kaufmann, Tobias Delius, Alex von Schlippenbach, Paul Dunmall, Lori Freedman, Berlin Improvisers Orchestra…). He is co-founder of Grix, Glue, Fabric and The 0hz. Using a small jazz drum set and two microphones, Dimitriadis composes real-time electroacoustic soundscapes, emphasizing timbre, materials – metals and skins – and their vibrations. The other hidden sounds of percussion come to the fore.
www.yorgosdimitriadis.bandcamp.com/album/14-20-22
● Harris Lambrakis was born and raised in Athens. He started playing music at a young age, next to remarkable teachers. He graduated from the Music Gymnasium of Pallini and the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens, majoring in ethnomusicology. He has had the good fortune to collaborate, in Greece and abroad, with Haig Yazdjian, Savina Yannatou, Michalis Siganidis, Ross Daly, Kostas Tatsakis, Pericles Papapetropoulos, Christos Tsiamoulis, Antonis Apergis, Stefano Battaglia, Bijan Chemirani, Michel Doneda, among others. For the last 30 years, he has participated in recordings and concerts around the world, while teaching ney.
The concert is supported by Goethe-Institut Athen.
On 23 January, on the eve of the concert at KET, Yorgos Dimitriadis will hold a workshop of free musical improvisation at Goethe-Institut Athen. More information: www.goethe.de/ins/gr/el/sta/ath/ver.cfm?event_id=26321659.