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Breadcrumb Trio Barcode: 5028386713821
Giannis Arapis guitar Giorgos Kokkinaris double bass Nikos Kordelis guitar
The Bread Crumb Trio (Kokkinaris, Kordelis, and Arapis) is an improvisational – experimental music group here releasing its first self-titled album on SLAM Productions. Its particular combination of electric guitar with contrabass gives birth to compositions encompassing a wide range of sonic manipulations. The instruments escape their traditional ways and produce uncanny and original sounds. The three musicians get together on the basis of musical "dialogue", aiming to explore new musical dynamics. The members of the Bread Crumb Trio are active in the improvisational and new music scenes of Athens and Berlin, each one stemming from different backgrounds (classical, jazz, rock, punk). The album is an example of the up-and-coming scene that welcomes more and more musicians, creating performances for an audience that seeks out unique sounds and new sonic experiences. Its aim is the immediacy between the audience and the performers, giving the former the right to think freely, criticize, demand, without any pre-imposed rules pertaining to "idiom" or "tradition".
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Tracks:
1. Harvest 09.11 (Arapis/Kokkinaris/Kordelis)
2. A jar drops, a flower pops 05.20 (Arapis/Kokkinaris/Kordelis)
3. Spume 07.52 (Arapis/Kokkinaris/Kordelis)
4. Bread crumbs for birds 04.03 (Arapis/Kokkinaris/Kordelis)
5. Bottled up lover 03.54 (Arapis/Kokkinaris/Kordelis)
6. Wash my teeth with fire 05.06 (Arapis/Kokkinaris/Kordelis)
7. Small bucket of sand 04.49 (Arapis/Kordelis)
Recorded at AUX Studios, Athens, September – October 2018 By Giotis Paraskevaidis and Christos Brito.
Mastering by Nasos Nomikos at VU studios.
Although Breadcrumb is a trio compared to the Sonar quintet, they three create just as many unexpected textures and timbres on the players’ eponymous CD as are heard on the other. With musical currents as diverse as those of the other band, the result is a moussaka-like mixture that reflects Kordelis’ activities in free improvisation and urban folk music; Kokkinaris’ creation of improvisational dance work; and Arapis’ experience in noise rock and Free Jazz, with the like of Noël Akchoté. In fact the introductory "Harvest" manages to blend timbres from voltage drones, percussive stick taps on the taut strings and a buzzing bass line into a squeaking, frailing sequence that calls on Metal as much as Jazz. Banjo-like twangs, detuned bass strings that produce microtonal reverberations and shrill Rock-worthy flanges characterize the synergy on other tracks. Frequently the two guitarists engage in push and pull, shifting chords and figures from one to the other as Kokkinaris produces sul ponticello vibrations. Their intuitive relationship is such that on "Bread crumbs for birds" it sounds as if they’re all strumming a single 12-string guitar before the flowing sequence is broken with distorted whammies, whumps and string shakes.
Breadcrumb’s sonic boldness doesn’t prevent the program from having its moments of harmonic lyricism. "Small bucket of sand", the final track moves from ringing string vibrations to a fluid, gentle coda that while reflecting what proceeded it, firmly competes the program.
Guitar bands that don’t resemble standard guitar bands, both Sonar and Breadcrumb should be heard.
Ken Waxman http://www.jazzword.com/one-review/?id=130412
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 https://www.jazzviews.net/bread-crumb---bread-crumb.html
Un triangolo greco in cui ogni lato è costituito da un musicista con background diverso: uno arriva dal rock e dal punk, uno dalle note classiche, uno dal jazz. Nikos Kordelis e Giannis Arapis alle chitarre elettriche, George Kokkinaris al contrabbasso, piccoli eroi della scena dell'improvvisazione radicale tra Atene e Berlino. Sussurri e grida, scintillii gioiosi e desolate incursioni in terre di nessuno grigie, gioco di timbri e gioco puro a rincorrersi, a trovare un dialogo possibile evitando il luogo comune. Intelligenza sonora in azione, per questa prima uscita per la label inglese che valorizza gli indipendenti: tosti, ma veri. Guido Festinese, 12 Sept 2020, Alias / Il Manifesto, Italy.
GOOGLE TRANSLATE A Greek triangle in which each side is made up of a musician with a different background: one comes from rock and punk, one from classic notes, one from jazz. Nikos Kordelis and Giannis Arapis on electric guitars, George Kokkinaris on double bass, little heroes of the radical improvisation scene between Athens and Berlin. Whispers and shouts, joyful sparkles and desolate forays into gray no-man's lands, a game of stamps and pure game to chase each other, to find a possible dialogue avoiding commonplace. Sound intelligence in action, for this first release for the English label that enhances independents: tough, but real.
Bread Crumb consists of George Kokkinaris on bass and teamed with guitarists Nikos Kordelis and Giannis Arapis for this Athenian session. There’s no hasapiko here, with the seven songs filled with space machine sounds on "Harvest", flailing strings and harrowing voices on "A Jar Drops, A Flower Pops" , electric gurgling with picking and pecking on "Bottled Up Lover" and scratching strings that may simply be the trio trying to find the right key in which to play. Jagged strings. https://www.jazzweekly.com/2020/09/slam-for-septemberviola-falb-bernd-satzinger-mark-holub-a-room-for-you-breadcrumb-trio-breadcrumb-trio-haslam-madeira-rua-lopes-ajuda-stephanos-shytiris-nikolas-skordas-invisible-war/ George Harris
I tre musicisti greci George Kokkinaris contrabbasso e Nikos Cordelis e Giannis Arapis alle chitarre elettriche provengono da diversi mondi sonori, dal punk all’improvvisazione, dal rock al jazz e vivono fra Berlino ed Atene dando un contributo importante alle rispettive comunità di artisti. Il loro disco è una fusione di esperienze e suoni, un incontro fra le chitarre in continua fibrillazione ed il contrabbasso che fa da àncora. È una musica viscerale, che rifiuta qualunque tipo di classificazione, improvvisata, senza alcuna guida su come proseguire se non l’empatia fra i musicisti. Ne spunta qualcosa di molto speciale, un quaranta minuti che scuotono l’ascoltatore in modo positivo, al di fuori delle certezze quotidiane. Ci sono le esperienze di un Fred Frith, ma non solo, i tre creano un loro mondo con tanta fantasia ed idee, che spuntano dal groviglio di suoni con facilità. Ispirati, coinvolgenti, i tre mostrano che quando c’é il giusto feeling i confini fra i generi sono lì soltanto per essere eliminati. Una buona parte della riuscita di questo lavoro spetta al contrabbassista, che sia al lavoro con l’archetto o con la tecnica del pizzicato ispira i chitarristi, ne viene fuori un lavoro coraggioso che è tra le migliori cose del catalogo Slam degli ultimi anni.
The three Greek musicians George Kokkinaris double bass and Nikos Cordelis and Giannis Arapis on electric guitars come from different sound worlds, from punk to improvisation, from rock to jazz and live between Berlin and Athens making an important contribution to their respective communities of artists. Their record is a fusion of experiences and sounds, a meeting between the guitars in continuous fibrillation and the double bass that acts as an anchor. It is a visceral music, which rejects any type of classification, improvised, without any guidance on how to continue other than empathy between the musicians. Something very special comes out of it, forty minutes that shake the listener in a positive way, outside the daily certainties. There are the experiences of a Fred Frith, but not only, the three create their own world with so much imagination and ideas, which emerge from the tangle of sounds with ease. Inspired, engaging, the three show that when there is the right feeling, the boundaries between genres are only there to be eliminated. A good part of the success of this work belongs to the double bass player, whether he is at work with the bow or with the pizzicato technique he inspires guitarists, the result is courageous work that is among the best things in the Slam catalog of recent years. Vittorio lo Conte http://www.musiczoom.it/?p=31900#.XzFGUShKi1t
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