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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. The different influences and timbres work like a real science experiment with liquids of different densities: no matter how you mix them, they eventually don’t mix and they create clear layers. So in FAMOR’s music one can distinguish jazz and tradition, rock, electronica and of course noise elements in one set, without losing any of their character and tone.
Sotiris Debonos: Electric custom mandolin/guitar, live looping, live electronics
Stathis Ioannou: Electric and acoustic guitar, live electronics
Kostas Tsiolis: Rhodes piano, prepared piano, live electronics
Manolis Aggelakis: Electric and acoustic guitar, live electronics
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At it’s very core, “Grief” stands out as a lonely, isolating experience in a strange land, sometimes meditative, but gently building and falling with every step into a world of emotions. … Continue reading…CD “Grief” by Farwest Mandolinistic Orchestra
“… “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
…”On the one hand there is folk, tradition, which aesthetically represents the mandolin or something like the mandolin, which is handled by Debonos, but on the other there are tones that have to do with rock, improv, noise, creative electronics….
…Fa.M.Or. is properly oriented. They are serious, robust, absolutely fascinating and definitely positioned in modern rock-improv… “.
…surely say they have an original sound, defying easy descriptions. It all made me curious to hear what they would sound like in concert… … Continue reading…Reviews for 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