Yiotis Kiourtsoglou
HAPOPSIS
LM040

With:

Theodoshi Spasov: kaval, Orfeas Peridis: vocals, Haig Yazdjian: oud, vocals, Lior Yekutieli: electric guitar, Stavros Lantsias: keyboards, Yiorgos Kontrafouris: piano, David Lynch : tenor & soprano saxophone, flute, Harris Labrakis: ney, Marc Halbheer: drums, Yiorgos Kaloudis: cello, Pantelis Stoikos: trumpet, Manos Theodosakis: trumpet, Antonis Andreou: trombone, Sotiris Lemonidis: keyboards, piano, Stefanos Dimitriou: drums, Marinos Galatsinos: clarinet & tenor clarinet, Vahan Galstian: duduk, Miltiadis Papastamou: violin & viola, Sami Amiri: electric piano & hamond, Jimmy Mahlis: electric guitar, Miltiadis Papastamou: violin, Pimis Petrou: vocals

The first personal album of Yiotis Kiourtsoglou (one of the best bass players in Greece and member of the group HUMAN TOUCH) is finally a fact!

Fifteen tracks and an arrangement of the song "Coffee" by Orfeas Perides (with Orfeas participating at the vocals), compose the musical landscape of the album.

Funk and jazz music. Sound with the vivid colour of the Balkans. The most important musicians of the Greek and Balkan jazz-world scene joined to play together. Rich and surprising arrangements. Apart from the bass which, as expected, takes first place, the wind instruments (saxophone, trombone, flute, nay, kaval, duduk) play a central role and enhance with their colour most of the tracks.

Yiotis Kiourtsoglou and the significant musicians who participate, have played music full of intensity, passion and life. This vividness is imprinted in the recording. The listener feels that he is present at the time when the music was played live.

'Hapopsis' in Greek means 'aspect' or 'point of view'. Every track is an 'aspect' of the album's musical microcosm, but, at the same time, every listener will have a different 'point of view' of the album itself.

'Hapopsis'; an important new album in the international music scene.

1) Ambi Groove
2)Psyhi (Soul)
3)Naive
4)Wormely
5)Menousis
6)Haig intro
7)Haig
8)Hapopsis
9)Sad Friday
10)Finally Something
11)Paramythi (Fairytale)
12)New Song
13)Prelude
14)Kafes (Coffee)
15)Kafes, Conclusion
16)Away from the sky  

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