Six months after her big exit in New York, Nefeli Fasouli, full of upheavals, experiences and adventure, begins her summer live in Athens with a cheerful mood reminiscent of the good old days.
With a completely fresh band, with songs from the personal album “O Kosmos sou” with music and lyrics by Phoebus Delivorias, but also with other well-known and beloved folk songs, the group is expected to burn down the loft this summer.
Doors open at 20.00
Danai Moraiti will perform at PLYFA on Thursday, June 29, where she will present tracks from her first studio album entitled Koureloú (December 2022). Her musical compositions are influenced by various musical idioms, such as that of Epirus, Thrace and Asia Minor with references to classical forms but also later idioms of Western music. In the context of creating soundscapes, she incorporates electronic and ambient elements into her music. Lyrically, she is influenced by folk and folk songs, myths and fairy tales. The concert will also include some traditional tunes from places of her musical influences, as well as compositions by favorite past and present songwriters.
On Tuesday, June 20, Lambda and Sophie lies share the PLYFA stage.
Going through the period of TRIA, Lambda continues their performances in Athens. In Plyfa, selected tracks from all their albums will be heard, with the last one dominating numerically as well as in feeling.
After a year of acoustic and quiet sets, currently recording new material, Sophie lies will appear with an electric full band set, with old and new songs.
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And those who were afraid to live did not want to
The sea washes them away
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In the sea the waves
I will learn to grow old
Usurum start their summer performances from Athens and PLYFA on June 19!
Usurum is celebrating 10 years in their discography this year, while they are preparing to release their 5th album in 2023.
So, in their summer performances, they will present many of the songs that will make up their upcoming album as well as selected songs from the previous ones.
Doors open at 20:00
A concert, an accessible musical performance, with songs from their self-titled first full-length album, which is expected to be released in the coming months, with pieces that shaped their personal aesthetic identity as well as with their previous releases. In POLYDRAMA the ody icons reveal the materials from which tears are made and turn on the lights in the secret rooms of our most personal confessions.
In “POLYDRAMA” the songs are signed by ody icons and the record, like the concert, is musically produced by Fotis ingie Papatheodorou with whom they have been collaborating for the last few years (EP “drama” & “We cry at night“).
“This is a musical imprint of my journey through the various rooms of my human experience thus far. It’s intense, it’s overwhelming, it’s sad and playful, political and emotional. It is a variety of elements that make up my fragility, my essence, my strength. I am this journey. this journey is me. It is much, it is multiple, it is plural, it is maximum. I went through dark rooms and bright rooftops to come back and put the notes on my piano honestly.
Please visit POLYDRAMA the same way you would visit your soul: gently but thoroughly, with care and bravery.” -ody icon
The night is opened by the distorter of rembetic sounds and tour guide of dark soundscapes ECATI, presenting material from his first album, while the concert features mc mi55t, who also participates in the POLYDRAMA album, as a special guest.
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ody icon is a young multidisciplinary musical artist from the eastern Mediterranean. Born and raised in Cyprus, he studied acting in Athens and did postgraduate studies in Paris in theater directing and dramaturgy. He joined the choirs of the “Epilogi” Cultural Movement from a very young age, studied piano with Tania Oikonomou and studied classical, modern and traditional singing with different teachers. He has directed, played and participated in shows and performances in Greece, Cyprus, France, Germany and England.
In 2017, he was introduced to the public as ody icons with the cover of the song “Supermelancholic”, while in December 2020 he released his own debut track – manifesto, “Working Out My Little Muscles” in collaboration with liminal. Since then they have maintained a solid partnership making all of his music videos accessible to deaf people through interpretation and subtitling. In April 2022, the EP album “drama” produced by Fotis ingie Papatheodorou and the homonymous ten-minute film “drama were released ”, directed by choreographer Haris Koussios, which accompanied the three songs on the album. The drama was then released accessible to blind people making it the first universally accessible music video in Greece.
formula < Italian formula < Latin forma and formula (general shape, outline, form, mold, example, law, method) - the recipe, the composition, the way of gathering/combining materials for the desired result. Formula is an interdisciplinary partnership of musicians, visual artists and image and sound technicians that aims to periodically organize live events where, in the context of an impromptu improvisation, the sound feeds the image and the image feeds the sound.
Album Live Presentation
On Friday 12/05, at the PLYFA Polyhous, “Stavros Allos” and Rudu Records celebrate the release of the Album “Gia Ti Nora” (For Nora) with a concert night of a live full-band presentation of it! Guest and opening act of this evening is “Logout”, who recently released his latest album “Ponemela”, from which we will have the pleasure of listening to several tracks!
Stavros Allos is a musician and songwriter, who makes a living as a sound engineer and music producer in Athens. His debut album “For Nora” is his first solo songwriting venture in Greek verse. An experiment in simplicity, with 7 rap songs, created in the summer of 2019, orchestrated by Sergios Voudris, a constant companion in honest analog sound. The disc was recorded in 2020 without the help of digital media and computer but with the help of analog machines and wonderful people in the Diskex building in Nea Chalkidona.
From the natural sound of impact and vocalizations,
in the polymorphic dimension of electronic music
The pioneering electronic jazz duet of vocalist Angeliki Toumpanakis and
drummer Ilias Doumani is coming to the PLYFA venue for the first time, on Friday April 28,
inviting individual artists to an intermedia audio-visual performance
composition and interaction.
The two musicians in their concerts present personal compositions and her pieces
bebop, modal, hardbop jazz scene. Through the lyrical theme of the originals
of their tracks and the assembly of a drum voice eletronica sound universe, they quote
their personal reading of contemporary socio-political reality.
In this performance they invite the jazz trumpeter Dimitris Papadopoulos and the
photographer Giorgos Vitsaropoulos to compose, experiment, and present
their own aesthetic reproduction in the concepts of the pieces and their sonic polysemy
“Drums Voice Jazztronica Duet“.
On Friday, April 28 at the PLYFA venue, the public will have the opportunity to experience a
special artistic collaboration where digital soundscapes, vocals and frequencies
explosions transform into shadows, movement and video projections that coexist in absolute
coordination with the performers, sometimes mirroring their action and sometimes
"acting" autonomously as another performer on stage.
A few words about “Drums & Voice Jazztronica Duet’ (@2014)
Angeliki Toumpanaki – vocalist, voice teacher, sound experimentalist, Ph.D.
Molecular Oncology – explores and teaches the mechanism of phonation, studies them
“extended” vocal techniques, traditional musical idioms and phonemes
through improvisation, artistic expression and the interdisciplinary path.
Ilias Doumanis – drummer, composer, drum teacher, mixed-media practitioner, sound
designer – systematically investigates, through composition and orchestration, the combination
of drumming with technology.
In February 2014, they create the Nu Jazz drum-vocal duo ‘Drums & Voice
Jazztronica Duet” from their need to experiment, to explore sounds
capabilities and limits of their instruments. Design a multi-layered sound environment with
the use of electronic media & programs and the live looping technique.
The two musicians are exceptional in their genre, presenting innovations in their technique
of their instruments, overcome limitations and constantly evolve.
DOORS OPEN 20:30
Elles The Doll : 21:30 – 22:00
Thaleia : 22:15- 22:45
Vassilina : 23:00- 23:50
Donation: suggested price 10€
Saturday 22.04
Amka (Live)
Keppler is Free (Live)
Bhukhurah (Live)
Veego Records (Andreas Mitrelis & Mr.Z – DJ set)
Sunday 23.04
Veslemes (Live)
Tendts (10 yrs anniversary Live)
Entropia Records (DJ set)
Needless All-Star DJs (DJ set)