BREAD CRUMB - Bread Crumb
SLAMCD 599
Yiannis Arapis, electric guitar; Giorgos Kokkinaris, double bass; Nikos Kordelis, electric guitar
Recorded at AUX Studios, Athens, Greece, September/October 2018
The Bread Crumb Trio here releases its first album in its own name, setting out to be clearly experimental. This they achieve through being entirely improvisational, and you will hear little that may remind you of any style of classical jazz origin. This method is further enhanced by the artful management of the sonic medium, the instruments being set to avoid their usual acoustics in favour of sounds of a completely different nature: odd, singular, weird perhaps. The aim is to discover or create new undercurrents and encounters.
These methods allow a different kind of dialogue. Though the new lingua franca may be intimate to this trio only, it also has grown out of their individual experiences in their own musical worlds, each different to the others.
Yiannis Arapis has explored new dimensions of sound through constant improvisation. His is an artistic dialogue between sound, electrical current, audio frequencies and motion; he has explored this with the free-improv performance act Ramdat from Athens – noisy rock, free jazz and ambience. He also experiments similarly with accompaniments from Dimitra Kousteridou’s DIY electronic circuits.
George Kokkinaris is composer, improviser, musician and performer. His artistic interest lies in both classical and contemporary music, particularly in double-bass repertoires. His main aim is to explore the various potentials of the double bass and contribute to its development as a solo instrument. His artistic activity, as an improviser and instant composer, is also wide and he performs and records with artists, collaborating with several dancers and choreographers. Sound plays a key role in his performances, of course.
Nikos Kordelis has a duet recorded with Yiannis Arapis in November 2018 and available on YouTube and if you are a contributor you can find more about him on Facebook, but I am not, though I am prepared to back him from this album because it is a gem and each of the musicians performing do so with the utmost assurance, poise and savoir faire.
This is a thoroughly different release and one that will draw those audiences looking for yet more individualistic sounds and performances, presentations that take risks when necessary in order to create new and unique works and in that process, innovation and improvisation are indispensable.
Reviewed by Ken Cheetham
SLAMCD 599
Yiannis Arapis, electric guitar; Giorgos Kokkinaris, double bass; Nikos Kordelis, electric guitar
Recorded at AUX Studios, Athens, Greece, September/October 2018
The Bread Crumb Trio here releases its first album in its own name, setting out to be clearly experimental. This they achieve through being entirely improvisational, and you will hear little that may remind you of any style of classical jazz origin. This method is further enhanced by the artful management of the sonic medium, the instruments being set to avoid their usual acoustics in favour of sounds of a completely different nature: odd, singular, weird perhaps. The aim is to discover or create new undercurrents and encounters.
These methods allow a different kind of dialogue. Though the new lingua franca may be intimate to this trio only, it also has grown out of their individual experiences in their own musical worlds, each different to the others.
Yiannis Arapis has explored new dimensions of sound through constant improvisation. His is an artistic dialogue between sound, electrical current, audio frequencies and motion; he has explored this with the free-improv performance act Ramdat from Athens – noisy rock, free jazz and ambience. He also experiments similarly with accompaniments from Dimitra Kousteridou’s DIY electronic circuits.
George Kokkinaris is composer, improviser, musician and performer. His artistic interest lies in both classical and contemporary music, particularly in double-bass repertoires. His main aim is to explore the various potentials of the double bass and contribute to its development as a solo instrument. His artistic activity, as an improviser and instant composer, is also wide and he performs and records with artists, collaborating with several dancers and choreographers. Sound plays a key role in his performances, of course.
Nikos Kordelis has a duet recorded with Yiannis Arapis in November 2018 and available on YouTube and if you are a contributor you can find more about him on Facebook, but I am not, though I am prepared to back him from this album because it is a gem and each of the musicians performing do so with the utmost assurance, poise and savoir faire.
This is a thoroughly different release and one that will draw those audiences looking for yet more individualistic sounds and performances, presentations that take risks when necessary in order to create new and unique works and in that process, innovation and improvisation are indispensable.
Reviewed by Ken Cheetham
