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dollmaker

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Recently: Francesco De Leo’s cover of Sparring Partner by Paolo Conte Generally: Danza Kuduro (both intentionally and against my will) dollmaker is (and isn’t) really just Greek South African indie / alternative pop singer-songwriter and producer Chloé-Marie Kikillus. She’s super happy to be here! Hell yeah! Born and raised in Johannesburg, she now lives in Athens, where she satirically and sincerely exposes her most vulnerable bits to family, friends, algorithm associates, and potential future employers in the form of songs that weave the digital and kitsch (GarageBand MIDI, Windows XP SFX, videogame sonics) through a humble core – the voice and acoustic guitar. 

Her 10-track debut album, ‘In Freefall I Feel Like You’, was released on the 16th of April, 2024. Initially created entirely on her laptop, IFIFLY went through its Pokémon evolution at the delightful Diskex, Athens, where Stavros ‘Allos’ Georgiopoulos mixed and mastered it all and Sergios Voudris offered his insights and finishing touches. If you are good and cool, you will listen to it and share it with others who are also good and cool. <3  Wholehearted audiolovesnark, xoxo dollmaker

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Nektarios Kouvaras - Lake Jackson

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Hi! 

My name is Nek and I make alternative rock music with my buddies, under the moniker Lake Jackson. Tbh I have a musical fixation with the 80s and 90s, and especially with music that comes from the USA. 

I’ve been in quite a few bands. 

My old project was called His Majesty the King of Spain, I was in a turbofolk cover band called ΒΙΕΤΝΑΜ and I also briefly played various acoustic instruments for Blank Canvas and Άλλη μια Μπάντα από τη Νότια Ντακότα.

Ιn high school, we had a band called Parallel Lines and then when I was in uni, my buddy Dimitris and I formed an all-around rock cover band called The Dogs of Leisure.

I think this pretty much sums it up for my brief musical journey.

My favorite album of all time is Doolittle by the Pixies, and my favorite pizza topping is pepperoni.

Free Palestine

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George Kokkinaris

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I play double bass, compose and improvise in order to get to know people and cultures of societies. Through my collaborations with composers, improvising with musicians, collaborating with visual artists, poets, dancers, I create performances of musical and sound representations in order to contribute to the approach of unknown or hidden roles to the human perception functions of music. My music is inspired by traditions and cultures, which hundreds of years ago to the present day perceive music as an integration of human activity and expression. My performances is based on the physicalization and humanization of music through voice and movement, while combining them with new technologies. I apply new techniques to the double bass while believing in the holistic nature of music performances with speech, dance and image. I interpret and study the classical orchestral repertoire as well as works by 20th-21st century composers from different cultures and backgrounds. I travel for concerts and collaborations abroad and also organize seminars on improvisation, Creative Music. I am part of the editorial team of the magazine “NewMusic.gr” in order to create community and develop the music scene in Greece.

www.aktapha.com

www.newmusic.gr

www.kokkinaris.com

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Pink Maggit

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Pink Maggit is an electro synth project based in Athens. He explores the moment and his feelings, through minimal waves, hard grooves and eerie synths that can make you dance or get lost in them. His numerous influences allow him to jump from genre to genre, fully focusing on what matters most -here and now. In 2023 he self released his debut album “Midnight Sun” which was later released as a vinyl via Veego Records in 2024.

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George - Seagulls of the dump

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Dead Moon generally

Hi, my name is George I ‘m 42 years old I live in Athens and Ι'm trying to sing and write lyrics for the Seagulls of the dump - Οι Γλάροι Της Χωματερής.

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Vaktro - Stefanos Gkioultzouoglou

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My name is Stefanos Gkioultzouoglou. 

I try to make music (mostly songs) based on a variety of greek music genres, combined with techniques and approaches from different traditions without copying them.

I use my name (Στέφανος Γκιουλτζούογλου) and the "name" Vaktro (Βάκτρο).

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Agatha

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A piece of music that moves you forward AFAR - Tell me more

A piece of music that gets stuck in your head Hatsune Miku - Levan Polkka

A piece of music that makes you want to dance La Compagnie Créole - A.I.É. (The LL Club Mix)

A piece of music that makes you feel badass Sue Wilkinson - You've Got to be a Hustler

A piece of music that you remember from your childhood Donovan - Mellow Yellow

A piece of music that reminds you your hometown MFSB - Old San Juan

The piece of music you’ve listened to the most Da Hool - Meet Her At The Love Parade

Agatha is a sound designer and music producer based in Athens. Their practice has developed through engagement with sound and music as a band member (Agatha & Molyneaux and Plastic Flowers), an event organiser (KRAMA, Fauna Sauna, Power Dance Club, LGBTQI+ Refugees in Greece) as well as working on sound for theatre and films (more recently as a member of Eteria FIlon project at Epidaurus Festival).

For the past two years and in collaboration with xfutrhug.co/Qreclaim, they are running workshops for individuals who are making their first steps in music production on Ableton.

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Giannis - Jimmy Knows

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Jimmy Knows is a four-member band based in Athens. We were formed in 2018, establishing our indie pop sound with our releases since then. Our songwriting is a "happy-sad" mixture of soft nostalgic beats and catchy melodies. In case you’re wondering our artist name means nothing.

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Lazaros - Birds of Vale

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Hi, my name is Lazaros, I ‘m 33 years old and I live in Athens. From an early age I was drew in music, mainly from my father’s records. After picking up the guitar around the age of 15, it gave me a constant high, leading to countless hours of playing and eventually starting to play in bands. Having gone through many music styles and projects, in 2020 I formed with my friends and previous bandmates, Birds of Vale, a mixture of 70’s rock and blues influences with a modern approach. We just released our second single “Caviar”, from our upcoming full length album, “Limbo”. My other knack is collecting records like crazy, especially while being abroad, discovering small, local record stores. The aftermath of my record hunting is always enjoyed by the dude next to me, Loki.

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Tilemachos Moussas

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Tilemachos Moussas is an Athens based composer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, educator. He invests in the creation and performance of subversive music, from instant composing and avantgarde. He creates, performs and produces experimental music and opera that fuses the musicality of speech, poetry, classical music, jazz and electronic sound art. He is a founding member of music theater company, ODC Ensemble and has presented his music across Europe and internationally and released multiple albums. 

Tilemachos has received the International "Music Theater Now 2018" Award and has been awarded the 1st Prize at the Be Festival of Birmingham. 

He is a PhD Candidate & he also holds a Master of Music in "Jazz Performance & New Technologies, Musical Studies Department, UOA.  

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WERA

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Weronika  Amelia Kijewska is a polish  composer, cellist, singer, bassist known as WERA, currently living in Athens.

Member  of duo Wera&Nick and Road Duck band, collaborating  with artists such as  Maria Papageorgiou, Aggelakas, VASSIŁINA, Vlastur Band. 

She studied history of art, cultural studies and photography, but ultimately she followed music.

In solo project she loves to create collages of sounds by building them based on cello loops, samples and her voice.  

Mostly in love with indie, dreamy style, drum&bass and cinematic  music.

Influenced by natural world, creative people and light&dark. 

 WERA describes her solo project as an avant cello that features dreamy melodies, hinting to indie style and  ritualistic sounds under the influences of  classical and cinematic music. 

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Elles The Doll

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Elles The Doll is a producer and audio-visual artist based in Berlin. Her early teenage years were accompanied by multiple musical instruments followed by a MA in Audio & Visual Arts, the first expositions in sound design and electroacoustic music.

Influenced by  esotericism, pop culture and performance art, her music is consisted by ethereal landscapes, complex textures and unconventional sonic spaces.

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Andrew - Loud Silence

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My name is Andrew. I am 23 years old and I started playing music because of the PlayStation game called “Band Hero” when I was 8 years old. Apart from music I love eating burgers, watching football and playing beach volley. I have lived in Athens, Greece all my life, but I would love to move to the UK because of their culture. I’ve been there twice for vacation and I loved it.  I think Loud Silence would do much better there, as far as live music or recordings are concerned.  Me and my band are going to release our 2nd studio album at the end of 2023, which will hopefully help us achieve some of our music goals.  

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Σκιαδαρέσες - Skiadareses

'Oλγα Σκιαδαρέση

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Δεν θυμάμαι τον τίτλο αλλά πήγαινε κάπως έτσι:

Σούπα το βράδυ έχουμε

Σούπα το μεσημέρι

Σούπα γιορτή και κυριακή 

χειμώνα καλοκαίρι 

Σουπα πα σουπα σουπα πα σουπα 

σουπα πα σουπα σου πα πα 

τώρα που το σκέφτομαι ο τίτλος μπορεί να είναι σούπα. 

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'Oλγα Σκιαδαρέση. 25 χρονών, ηθοποιός και μέλος του μουσικού σχήματος ΣΚΙΑΔΑΡΕΣΕΣ. Γενικά καλό κορίτσι. Άλλα χόμπι : ζωγραφική, συγγραφή κειμένων, μαγειρική. 

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Νίκη Σκιαδαρέση

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Νίκη Σκιαδαρέση, ηθοποιός και μέλος του μουσικού συγκροτήματος ΣΚΙΑΔΑΡΕΣΕΣ.

Βαριέται να μάθει κιθάρα αλλά πρέπει και το ξέρει!

Δεν χρειάζεται να της το λέτε όλοι!

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Orestis - HARAKIRI

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Hi y’all.

My name is Orestis. I am 28 years old and up until now, I have delved quite deep in the realms of musicianship and rock’n’roll camaraderie by forming and playing in bands for half of my lifetime. I have lived in Barcelona from summer of 2012 until summer of 2020, which granted me quite a staggering experience in exploring the Barcelonese underground music, from the punk scene to the profound experimental rock scene.

After that weird summer of 2020, I moved back to Greece where hitherto I started playing in the band called HARAKIRI with which we just self-released our first EP called #1.

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JohnnytheSeagull

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JohnnytheSeagull is a DIY bedroom project by Choco milk enjoyer Giannis Nikodimos. One thing that shocked him when moving to Bristol was the huge amount of seagulls that the city has so he took inspiration from them and started his own lo-fi project which embraces the DIY ethics and mentality of music with its imperfections and purity. Born and raised in Athens, Greece, and based in Bristol, UK.

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ODYSSEAS I. CONSTANTINOU - ody icons

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Odysseas I. Constantinou (ody icons) is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Cyprus. His first degree is in Acting (Delos School of Drama, Athens 2014) and his Master's Degree is in Theater Directing and Dramaturgy at the University of Nanterre in Paris (2019). They have worked as an actor and director in productions in Greece, Cyprus, France and Germany since 2009 (National Theater, Athens Concert Hall, Pallas Theater, Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation, etc.) As a dramaturge in dance they have collaborated with the artists Elena Antoniou, Panos Malactos and Harry Koushos. Their texts have been presented in plays and performances in Athens, Berlin and Paris. In 2021 they created the text/poem for the art film 17000’’ directed Harry Koushos. ody icons has released three singles WORKING OUT MY LITTLE MUSCLES, YES HALLO HI and WE CRY AT NIGHT while his first EP “drama” was released in April 2022 alongside a fully accessible film. They have participated in concerts, festivals and performing venues in Greece and Cyprus. They are releasing their first album (LP) “polydrama” in 2023 fall. The first single of the album “Sose” is out since May 2023.

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