Full Tattoo

as a 30something-maniodepressive-capricious person, I am trying to maintain some peace of mind while tracing ordinary-sweet-everyday ornaments placed on bookshelves, next to shoeboxes, in front of bathroom tiles, between piles of assignments and lap tops, of which naturalness-normality hits my lonesome-bitter face like a cold north wind from which I am trying to protect myself under unfamiliar duvets… or maybe like a summer breeze which I anticipate to cool my cheeks and for that reason I should stay uncovered from irrelevant cloths and bodies…

or maybe some music therapy will do its magic again and clear up my mind like ten days ago where I attended a Full Tattoo live session. Full Tattoo is a band of five musicians who blew our minds with covers of popular english and greek songs. they took us in a journey mainly rock but with interesting stops in other music genres too. Gary Frad vocals, Alexis Kazakopoulos acoustic-electric guitar - vocals, Alex Chrysostomides electric guitar - vocals, Nikos Adamopoulos drums, Lefteris Papadakis bass. and please excuse me for stating preference but it would be hubris, that would lead to divine retribution and punishment, not to mention that Alex Chrysostomides was for me, that I hadn’t have the chance to listen to him before, a total revelation! a complete musician with amazing guitar playing skills and original expressiveness and enthusiasm on stage. him performing black from pearl jam, was absolutely breathtaking.

well and returning to what said before, black is the perfect closure for my day… or maybe not. I know! some hot chocolate will fix everything!... shit! I forgot to buy milk… black.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Full-Tattoo/44743002437?fref=ts

30 12 2012

A. is a man I love sincerely even though I do not know him much. his birthday is always a good excuse for celebration in the night between the 30th and 31st of December. but this year… this year was beyond fantasy! there was talking, smiling, singing, dancing and people people people! interesting, with news from far away lands, in their words. beautiful, with sincere happiness or melancholy or solicitude or all these mixed, in their eyes. talented, with musical minds, skillful fingers and amazing voices. I could talk for hours and hours describing last night’s magic and yet, probably, I could not communicate the exact experience. so I will confine myself to share the three things that came in my mind while I was floating on the air along with notes and thoughts.

1. I wish I had certain beloved friends next to me, to see, hear and feel what I am feeling.

2. I hope all those people around me to be safe from harm what so ever. God bless them!

3. I want to keep this moment in my mind for ever… and ever… and ever…        

tonight there is no need for New Year’s Eve celebrations. last night was my New Year’s Eve!

 

 

black drummer

it has been so long since my last post. it has been so long since I entered my blog at all. it has been so long since I made a go of something I really like. sooo long… I feel that the musts of my everyday life overcome the wants and I do not like it at all. especially when I realize that the best I do to fight this back is to turn myself into a lazy disgusting primitive dressed in pjs, with blank pc stare and remains of nacho dip and self-pity around my lips. and please don’t get me wrong, primitive is ok but lazy and disgusting are not. so in a flare of kickback I decided to post - at last - some pics of D. from a live back in summer.

D. aka Dimitris Koutsiouris is a bassist that has performed with various bands for more than 10 years now. his previous lovely child was The Strays. today is one of the founding members of Black Drummer, a four-piece band fronted by his long-time associate Toby Marriott. the band collaborates with successful producers Vance Powell and Dave Cobb on their as-yet untitled debut album. they spent the early half of 2012 deeply buried in a Nashville studio writing, rehearsing and recording and the summer touring across the UK. the universe colluded with me and I had the chance to meet D. a few years ago and for that I consider myself very lucky. he is one of those REAL artists that had been through hard times, experienced heaven and hell, lived glorious moments and travelled around the world to be with his eternal lover… music.

 

http://vimeo.com/49751365

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHjmg4i1BK4

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/black-drummer-ep/id543888719?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf3IxIRB4hw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beupbmhkWTA

 

 

Sofita

after a few invitations declined due to malaise, depreciation, cold-bloodedness  and various sci-fi reasons, one has been accepted and last Friday my good friend M. and I, headed in a music live down town. a wise thing to do because we spent a few anti-depressing hours. something we both really needed.

what we watched was six multi-talented people on the same stage in perfect harmony. Sofita and her marvelous band feat. Marina Satti. Dimitris Kassis guitar, Apostolis Mpournias percussions, Dimitris Kapoulas contrabass, Chris Polydoros saxophone - harmonica. a sound mix pure delight for my ears. they played music, sang, danced and performed some of Sofita’s songs plus swing, rock n roll and flamenco tunes, Sofia Vempo, Michael Jackson, Shaggy, Lady Gaga covers and many more. proof that a beautiful voice can sing everything!

http://www.youtube.com/user/SofiaSofita/videos