Musician/Composer
“… “Grief” is “heavy”, labyrinthine, suggestive, insidious, noisy, experimental, avant, “hard” ambient, meditative, dark, improv…
… So we have a “naturally” developing sound and especially with the “right” duration…
“Grief” is “heavy”, labyrinthine, suggestive, insidious, noisy, experimental, avant, “hard” ambient, meditative, dark, improv … Continue reading…Reviews for CD “Grief”
Farwest Mandolinistic Orchestra is a quartet of contemporary experimental music. They combine traditional, classical, electric and electronic instruments as sources, they employ the technique of live looping and they move between deliberate synthesis and improvisation. … Continue reading…CD : Farwest Mandolinistic Orchestra
Farwest Mandolinistic Orchestra photos at studio and from live performances … Continue reading…Farwest Mandolinistic Orchestra : Photos
Farwest Mandolinistic Orchestra is improvising from our homes, during coronavirus lock down. Video created by guitarist Stathis Ioannou
Farwest Mandolinistic Orchestra is improvising from our homes, during coronavirus lock down. Video created by guitarist Stathis Ioannou
Daily newspaper “Kathimerini”-Athens
.”..in «Far West» …mandolin orchestras meet Tom Waits and NickCave…”
www. raporto.gr
“…S. Debonos is attempting what did Moby at “Play” with the help of samplers…. one of the most interesting contemporary sounds of the season, an original fusion of tradition and avant-garde, for open minds and senses. ”
“Athinorama” weekly magazine
“…a concept where Kefalonian island choirs and musicians are together with electrojazz loops and rythms and musical structures like earthquakes…”
Daily newspaper “Avgi”-Athens
“…S. Debonos ..highlighted here another aspect of Greek traditional music and proved that there is also its west version, which should not only be recognized, but also must be a part of the contemporary creative process…”
www.avopolis.gr
“…Jazz loops, electronica elements, mandolins, waltz and Ionian choruses are mixed and sink into one another…”
“Submarine” monthly music magazine
“…Debonos generously gives us the dances he created at his musical journey to the West ……Like to listen to this festival happy and lying in a bench and in the background… all the best…”
Daily newspaper “TA NEA”-Athens
“…enjoy the “Lithostroton”, the “Mountain dance”, the dance of the sea and the others that sound so beautiful at Ionian sea and at Far West also…”
“Difono” monthly music magazine ATHENS
“…one of the best works published in the recent years in our country.”
Daily newspaper “Eleftherotypia”-Athens
“…he makes something new, having a substrate of choirs, bands and music companies, together with rythms that spring from the computer…”
www.myaegian.gr
“…Sotiris Debonos is actually creating music, feels the music, listens to the music,suggests music …In this record you can find some elements rarely seen in the Greek discography
Daily newspaper “Kathimerini”-Athens .”..in «Far West» …mandolin orchestras meet Tom Waits and NickCave…” www. raporto.gr “…S. Debonos is attempting what did Moby at “Play” with the help of samplers…. one of the most interesting contemporary sounds of the season, an original fusion of tradition and avant-garde, for open minds and senses. ” “Athinorama” weekly magazine “…a concept
Monthly music magazine “Difono”
… “Ourakas” is the only Greek collection of songs, which have a chracteristic local and romantic color and, at the same time, they suggest a modern musical sound at its conception …
Daily newspaper “TA NEA”-Athens
…certainly the inspiration and the practice of S. Debonos escape far from everything standard and usual…
Monthly music magazine “Monopoly”
…imaginative instrumentation and haunting soundscapes in an artistic project…
Daily newspaper “Eleftherotypia”-Athens
… the pictures of Captain Montesantos are alive in one of the most creative attempts to transfer the Ionian musical tradition in international seas …
Monthly music magazine “Jazz &Jazz”
…Debonos writes with respect to the “cursed” lyrics…
www.in.gr
… embark without delay on the musical nautilus of Sotiris Debonos.
Wandering in exotic parallels will bring unexpected findings …
www.atraktos.gr
… his music is evocative and plenty of feelings …
Τhe poetry of Captain Montesantos is alive in one of the most creative attempts to transfer the Ionian musical tradition in international seas … Continue reading…The press for CD “OURAKAS”
…This is no exaggeration: this is the revenge of independent productions.
Argyris Zilos “DIFONO”magazine (GR), May 1997
…This is no exaggeration: this is the revenge of independent productions. Argyris Zilos “DIFONO”magazine (GR), May 1997