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Ioannina, Greece "Villagers of Ioannina City" (or -V.I.C-) it's a folk/psychedelic/rock band from Ioannina City (Greece). They play a unique kind of heavy / psychedelic rock with a 70's attitude by combining it with a healthy dose of Greek folk traditional music from the region of Epirus. The region's musical tradition is characterized by polyphony and the use of clarinet and pentatonic musical scales. Simply put, the band fuses traditional music with modern psychedelic forms, creating a unique sound. In 2010 they released a 6 track promo. After 4 years, in April 2014 they released their debut full length, titled...

Born in the Greek island of Crete, Ioannis Anastassakis studied at the Greek National Conservatory and the Nakas Conservatory in Athens. He completed his Bachelor degree at the American College of Greece, and subsequently studied at the distinguished Musicians Institute (GIT), where he was hired as an instructor, after graduating at the top 1% of his class. He continued his graduate studies in Music, at the California State University, completing an MA in Guitar Performance, graduating Magna cum Laude. Ioannis list of Electric guitar teachers is extremely impressive: the list read like as “Who is Who” of contemporary electric guitar...

Ohioan is living music. It is living because it changes, it grows and reduces. Some nights its a minimalist drone ensemble of mountain dulcimers. Next week theres a wedding gig playing Lucinda Williams and Charlie Feathers covers. Hitchhiking tours with cassette loops and lap steel. Generator parties in the desert, stacks of amplifiers and drumsets boogie all night. EL34s and 12AX7s glowing in the dark, and the spark of a shotgun blowing a bottle of Dos Equis off the wall of adobe ruins. High country, desert stone. The project started on a lone walk from Chicago to Portland, first show...

A native of Chalkida, Greece. Ioannis Kalantzis studied composition and computer music at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique of Lyon with Philippe Manoury, Marco Stroppa and Dennis Lorrain. He has received distinctions and prizes in contests as CIMESP'97, Papayioannou '98, Pierre Schaeffer '99, and Grame/EOC 2002. His work has been selected for the official concerts of the International Computer Music Conference ( ICMC'99 Beijing, China ), (ICMC 2001 Havana, Cuba, (ICMC 2003 Singapore), (ICMC 2005 Barcelona, Spain), (ICMC2007 Copenhagen, Denmark). His pieces has been performed worldwide in many other international events in France, England, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Ukraine,...