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Modal4 - Modal4 (2017)

Modal4 - Modal4 (2017)

BAND/ARTIST: Modal4

  • Title: Modal4
  • Year Of Release: 2017
  • Label: Fishbowl
  • Genre: World, Ethnic, Folk
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 47:20 min
  • Total Size: 276.8 MB
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Evgenios Voulgaris: yayli tanbur
Thanos Gountanos: fretless guitar
Pavlos Spyropoulos: contrabass
Dimitris Tasoudis: drums

Evgenios Voulgaris
His interest in traditional music started in 1992 and took the form of apprenticeship next to Christos Tsiamoulis. Since 2001 he has been attending lessons on the interpretation of Ottoman music next to Fahrettin Cimenli in Istanbul. Of particular importance to his musical training has been a series of seminars on the oud, saz, afghani rabab, as well as composition and orchestration in the context of the “Labyrinth” Musical Workshops in Houdetsi, Crete.
A multi-instrumentalist himself, he has repeatedly teamed with master musicians and composers, such as Ross Daly, Christos Tsiamoulis, Nikos Kipurgos, Dimitris Papadimitriou, Notis Marvudis, Nima ben David, Paul Winter in concerts, recordings and television productions in Greece and abroad. He has collaborated with Τhe Orchestra of Colors, Camerata and The State Orchestra. Of particular interest to him is teaching, composing music, and writing music for theater. Cd productions: “Wanderings”, “The message of the prince”, “Apsilies”. Book: “Rebetika songs of the Inner War period”. He lives in Patras, Greece.

Thanos Gountanos
Thanos Gountanos was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1983 and six years later had his first touch with the guitar. He studied classical guitar with Costas Cotsiolis, advanced music theory (harmony, counterpoint, fugue) with Vassilis Kitsos and composition with Michalis Lapidakis at the Musical Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. At the same time his interest turned to balkan and anatolian modal music while studying laouto, lavta, oud, and saz. This led to discovering the fretless guitar next to Erkan Oǧur in Istanbul. Gradually he developed a unique style on guitar blending modal, classical and modern music.
As a professional musician he participated in numerous concerts and recordings in Greece and Europe with various projects and artists. Indicatively some of them are: BAiLdSA (balkan-gypsy-punk), Loxandra (Eastern Mediterranean-World Fusion), SoskeNanay? (turkish-gypsy), Modal4 (contemporary modal), MustakBajam (psychedelic modal), Čači Vorba (Polish gypsy), Plaza Quartet, Ross Daly, Evanthia Reboutsika, Dilek Koç, National State Theater of Northern Greece, Symphonic Orchestra of Thessaloniki and many more.

Spyropoulos Pavlos
He began music studies in early childhood with Markella Tsouva as pianist and since 2003 he studied the doublebass with Haralambos Himarios in Thessaloniki. As a doublebass player since 2007, he is member of various music groups, inspired by music traditions of Southern Europe and Asia, as well as classical music or jazz. The last years till now, he is member of “Modal4”and “Neda” (contemporary modal), “Caja Secreta” (nuevo flamenco), “Magnanimus Trio” (modal jazz), “Tir Fada” (irish tunes). He also plays with Ross Daly at “Labyrinth ensemble” since 2010. He has also participated in concerts or recordings with many musicians such as Erkan Ogur, Derya Turkan, Sokratis Sinopoulos, Zohar Fresco, Giorgis Manolakis, Harris Lambrakis, Kelly Thoma, Pedram Kzavar Zamini, Imamyar and Rufat Hasanov and many more. He studied musicology in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and music theory in “Tassia Kassiola” Conservatory of Trikala.

Dimitris Tasoudis
Dimitris Tasoudis was born in 1980 in Thessaloniki, Greece.
He first studied piano with Sophia Zoumi, among others, and drums with his brother, Thanos.
He holds a BA degree in Musicology (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), an MA in Contemporary Studies (University of York) and diplomas on Percussion and Composition (State Conservatory of Thessaloniki).
As a member of various music combos (post-rock, modal jazz and world music), he has recorded seven CD’s. He is a member of Northern Lights, Modified Dog, EchoEs. He has composed music for films as a member of the Prefabricated Quartet; during the last years he is working on his own in this area as in theatre, as well.
He is currently teaching percussion at Katerini Music School; he has also taught in the Departments of Music (‘improvisation on percussion’) and Film (‘film music’) at Aristotle University.
He is doing his PhD under the supervision of Petros Vouvaris in the University of Macedonia, Department of Music Science and Art.

Tracklist:
1/11. Modal4 - Grounding
2/11. Modal4 - Nightingale
3/11. Modal4 - The Red Apple of Igdir
4/11. Modal4 - Sandstorm
5/11. Modal4 - Little Old Man
6/11. Modal4 - Lbinovo
7/11. Modal4 - Immigrant Bird
8/11. Modal4 - Lament
9/11. Modal4 - Cabbages
10/11. Modal4 - Reng
11/11. Modal4 - Lullaby

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