Chromata

Chromata were formed in 2006 by Eva and Fil Ieropoulos, who are sister and brother from the north of Greece. Eva has been composing music for children for years and Fil was always interested in micro-electronica, so the marriage of the two seemed inevitable in the form of child-like bitter-sweet electronic compositions. Their common love for Manos Hadjidakis led to the name ‘Chromata’ [colours], but the name was soon considered appropriate beyond this reference, as the music was described by many people as strongly cinematic. The band has released their first album at the beginning of 2009 on CooRecords.

Eva Ieropoulou has been composing music for children for over fifteen years. She has released two cds ‘To Prasino Mouskari-o’ and ‘Ta Pos Ke ta Yiati’. Eva teaches music to children aged 3-6 at the conservatory she opened with her husband, composer Costas Bravakis, in Veria. She also writes fairytales and plays and she has three forthcoming book releases in the next year. Eva is a graduate of Linguistics and currently studies the cello.

Fil Ieropoulos has been making electronic music for about ten years. After creating post-rock band Cloudcub and London-based electro-indie band Diskoboy, he embarked on Chromata, bridging some of his favourite influences. Fil also makes films and teaches video art in the UK. He has taken part in a few festivals of experimental film in the UK, Greece and Germany, recently showing work at Megaron Mousikis in Athens. He is currently doing a PhD on the idea of the Film Poem at the University College of the Creative Arts.

Dalot

Dalot is the solo project of Maria Papadomanolaki. Maria is a sound artist/musician currently based in New York. Her work has been exhibited in many European and International festivals including the Icelandic Festival of experimental film, Sunrise Festival (UK) and Athens video art Festival(GR). She has collaborated with choreographers, visual and sound artists, most recently  with Manu Luksch and Peter Cusack (UK) for her performance piece entitled Trajectory. Maria has also been working for radio since 2000. Her latest series of radio shows was Flight Sessions; a four part mini guide to contemporary independent Greek music that she presented on Resonance FM (London, UK). Dalot  started as an experimental project in 2003. So far Maria has produced 3 unreleased EP’s. Her latest EP entitled “Flight Sessions” is bound to be released by COOrecords later this year. Tracks from this EP were featured in Tom Robinson’s “Introducing” on BBC 6 music and on Resonance FM.

Cloudcub

Cloudcub is the creation of FilTig and Thom Dinas, producers and musicians in London’s underground scenes since the early 00’s, working under various names and with different artists, based in Hackney. Together, and later with the addition of bass magician/ multi instrumentalist Dudu (Kat Vipers, One More Grain, Diskoboy) and Maria “Dalot” (Sonic Artist, Resonance FM) shaped the sound of a live electronica band. Their first full length record, the emotionally powerful and deeply melodic “Friendly Warning” is here. Mixing elements of Post Rock, Shoegaze, Electronica, and trip hop, and influenced by the diverse cultural backgrounds of the area they have created music with odd time signatures, organic live instruments, beautiful sing along melodies.

“Friendly Warning”, is the debut album. It’s a refreshing take on the post electronica, ambient scene. In turns melancholic and sweet it bridges and reaches the gaps between cinematic post rock (Labradford, Mum) and melodic electronica (Plaid, Boards of Canada) and experimental. With child like vocals/ lyrics this is the music to daydream to!!

May Roosevelt

Thereminst May Roosevelt was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. Her first encounter with a musical instrument was at the age of twelve, when she took to violin lessons. Nine years later her violin was replaced by a theremin, one of the earliest electronic musical instrument invented in 1919, by Leon Theremin. Aside her personal projects, May Roosevelt has collaborateed with several musicians and bands in Greece. She is currently working as a graphic designer.

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