Nick Drake - Pink Moon

Pink Moon is the sound of Nick Drake cracking up.This album, recorded over two late nights, certainly sounds like a fever dream.

Sonny Touch & Honolulu Philharmonic Opening act for Chinawoman!!!

On the 1st of March, Sonny Touch & Honolulu Philharmonic will open for Chinawoman @ Block 33!!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/201446913313731/

Dancin' Zombies

Marc Ribot - It could have been very beautiful

Falling soldier

Cult stop motion short movie by my friend Filip featuring my Houndog on end credits, sick...

My first vinyl from Виктория картотека

Scott Walker - The seventh seal

 

Must see!

A true gentleman

Standin' there

A first attempt on capturing standin' there with Dimitris on harmonica and these two crazy puppets.

Lyrics:

You can't hide
the tricks you try
when you lie to yourself

Surely know
love is long gone
and you act like a child

Help me out
I wanna cry out
just can't find the words

N' when i try
never know why
just standin' the crossroads

Basement Band (stage setup + video mapping)

Drawing by Xla

Sonny Touch - Still Waiting...

the ΝΑΙΝ poster

http://www.facebook.com/events/439088802795496/

ΝΑΪΝ Mixtape

This is the ΝΑΪΝ Mixtape for my d.j. set on Sunday the 28th at Bord de l'eau.

27 cds will be distributed

If you ask me after a month, the list will probably be completely different, 

but at this moment that's how I feel

So many songs but only ten to choose...

Just finished recording guitar in 4 new Basement tracks and completed a new song of mine which is to be included in a compilation released by the end of the year (more info coming soon! ;-)

Some really cool music from my friend George who lives in Lapland

http://soundcloud.com/bandoek/slow-the-snow-falls

http://soundcloud.com/bandoek

The Silent Giants

Check out these incredible posters made by Silent Giants (especially the Dead Weather ones!)

http://thesilentgiants.bigcartel.com/category/posters

53rd THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

November 2 - 11, 2012

PRESS RELEASE   TRIBUTES
Three diverse and unique directors are being celebrated this year in the 53rd edition of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival: Aki Kaurismaki (Finland), Bahman Ghobadi (Iran) and Andreas Dresen (Germany).
All three directors will attend the event to present and discuss their work. In addition, the TIFF will publish a book on Aki Kaurismaki’s work, with new textual analyses and film critiques.

AKI KAURISMAKI

Aki Kaurismaki, born in 1957 in Orimattila, is not only the most well-known Finnish filmmaker along with his brother Mika, but one of the most distinct auteurs of the past three decades. He started making films by collaborating with Mika and ventured on his own for the first time with Crime and Punishment in1983, updating Dostoyevsky’s novel and immediately establishing his unique type of filmmaking. Among the numerous awards he has garnered over the years are: the Interfilm Award at the 1990 Berlin IFF for The Match Factory Girl, the FIPRESCI Award at the 1992 Berlin IFF for La vie de boheme, the Grand Prize of the Jury and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2002 Cannes IFF for The Man Without a Past and the FIPRESCI Award and the Ecumenical Jury Special Mention at the 2011 Cannes IFF for Le Havre.
11 of Kaurismaki’s films will be screened during the 53rd TIFF.

Kaurismaki’s universe is decidedly Finnish, yet his films have an unquestionable universal appeal. They are bleak and funny, minimalist and melodramatic, subtly ironic, muted, yet dreamlike (owing much to Timo Salminen’s extraordinary cinematography) and full of rock ‘n’ roll, as well as a broader love for vintage Americana. His heroes, blue-collar underdogs (as well as various delightful dogs), losers, unemployed and homeless, are amongst the most dignified and solemnly droll characters in international cinema. They are men and women of a few words and sparse smiles, who don’t belong in the system, but often find love, joy and purpose outside of it, and Kaurismaki rewards them for that. Although his characters go through difficulties of varying degrees, they get the happy, hopeful endings that they deserve; in fact, audiences always root for them, which is one of the Finnish director’s greatest talents. Societal and economic conditions, as well as the realities of class, are always present in Kaurismaki’s films, most notably in the Working Class Trilogy (Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, The Match Factory Girl) and the Loser Trilogy (Drifting Clouds, The Man Without A Past, Lights in the Dusk), which reflects the Finnish economic crisis that hit the country in the 1990s. Kaurismaki, socially committed but never didactic, narrated these tales of woe by creating wonderfully unassuming comedies. His oeuvre definitely has something to do with what the Finns call sisu, an accurately untranslatable word that refers to a specifically Finnish trait: a resilience, obstinacy and determination to deal with difficult situations, as well as a degree of brave madness required to do so.

Outside space - One of my favourites, true blue

ΝΆΙΝ 02. Electric cramps by Sonny T. @ μπορντ \\ ντε λό

On the 28th of October. Will have the opportunity to play my favourite tunes as a d.j. along with some new songs of mine and create my OWN compilation cd!!

ΝΆΙΝ:

9 Κυριακές (οι τελευταίες κάθε μήνα)
9 DJ set (από μπάντες της πόλης)
9 Αφίσες (ίσον μία)
27 CD με επιλογές απο την κάθε μπάντα θα μοιράζονται κάθε φορά . . . 

Turned 31 yesterday! the wolf may lose his teeth but never his nature...

Sonny Touch - With no one

This is the first of a series of home made videos I 'm about to upload with songs taken from the "Brain Soup" album. Enjoy!

 

Lyrics:

Well it's been so long
(believers are gone)
and the words I 've said
are totally wrong
now I'm lost
with no one else

Run away from there
sick but I don't care
a slave to the days
that were late but never returned

Read the morning news
just in time to choose
a gun for my sleep to break loose
under my pillow with you

Air blows my mind
rusty nail in your eye
the same symphony in my ears

Running to catch
just don't know what
count your bucks and smile

When there 's no guitar around...

This town sometimes drives me crazy

Haunting

Excerpt from working on new stuff

     

She 's a punk

"Brain Soup" review at vinylmine blogspot

http://diskoryxeion.blogspot.gr/2012/03/sonny-touch-brain-soup.html

http://diskoryxeion.blogspot.gr/

Video for Basement band performing 6 songs (coming soon)

 

http://www.facebook.com/basementband.gr

ΟΙ YOUR HAND IN MINE ΣΤΟ BLOCK 33 ΤΟ ΣΑΒΒΑΤΟ 10 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ 2012 (OPENING ACT: SONNY TOUCH & HONOLULU PHILHARMONIC)

ΟΙ YOUR HAND IN MINE ΣΤΟ BLOCK 33

ΤΟ ΣΑΒΒΑΤΟ 10 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ 2012 (OPENING ACT: SONNY TOUCH & HONOLULU PHILHARMONIC)

Οι Θεσσαλονικείς Your Hand In Mine, μετά τις πρόσφατες sold-out εμφανίσεις τους σε Αθήνα, Θεσσαλονίκη και Πάτρα,  επιστρέφουν στην βάση τους, για μια μοναδική συναυλία το Σάββατο 10 Μαρτίου 2012, στο BLOCK 33. Το συγκρότημα θα παρουσιάσει ζωντανά το ολοκαίνουριο άλμπουμ του με τίτλο “The Garden Novels”, που κυκλοφόρησε τον περασμένο Σεπτέμβρη από την Inner Ear. Την παρουσίαση θα συνοδεύει ένα οπτικό πανόραμα από σκηνικές προβολές, που συνοδεύει τη μουσική του ντουέτου στα τελευταία του live.

Τη συναυλία των Your Hand in Mine θα ανοίξουν οι Sonny Touch και Honolulu Philharmonic με ένα μοναδικό ακουστικό set. 

Τιμή εισιτηρίου: 5 ¤  - Προπώληση στα δισκοπωλεία Λωτός (Σκρα 7/ 2310260776) και Stereodisc (Πλ. Αριστοτέλους 4/ 2310262912).

Ο Μάνος Μυλωνάκης και ο Γιώργος Παπαδόπουλος, δυο φίλοι από τη Θεσσαλονίκη, αποφάσισαν να εκφράσουν την αγάπη τους για τα ακουστικά όργανα, τη νορμανδική φολκ και τους πλανόδιους μουσικούς μέσα από το ντουέτο Your Hand in Mine που δημιούργησαν το 2006. Με μια συλλογή από αυτοσχέδια όργανα και τεχνικές live-looping παρουσιάζουν μια νέο-ρομαντική, έντονα προσωπική μουσική δωματίου, γοητεύοντας ένα διαρκώς διευρυνόμενο κοινό. Το 2007 κυκλοφόρησαν σε 100 χειροποίητα αντίτυπα τις τέσσερις πρώτες ηχογραφήσεις τους σε μορφή cd, με αφετηρία τη σύγχρονη δυτικοευρωπαϊκή φολκ αλλά και τον πειραματισμό, ενώ το ίδιο καλοκαίρι, μετά από ανάθεση του Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου Θεσσαλονίκης, συνέθεσαν πρωτότυπη μουσική για τo βουβό αριστούργημα του Mikio Naruse, «Every Night Dreams». Φέτος επανέρχονται με τη νέα δουλειά τους, εννέα ηχητικά διηγήματα, εννέα μικρές αυτοτελείς ιστορίες μετουσιωμένες σε νότες στο δεύτερο άλμπουμ τους με τίτλο «The Garden Novels».

Οι Your Hand in Mine καταφθάνουν, όπως πάντα, με μια μικρή μουσική «οικοσκευή» που περιέχει τη συλλογή τους από συνηθισμένα και ασυνήθιστα όργανα και συσκευές (η οποία συνεχώς μεγαλώνει) και εμπλουτίζουν την ορχήστρα τους με νέα ηχοχρώματα. Με το καινούριο άλμπουμ τους “The Garden Novels”, ο Μάνος Μυλωνάκης και ο Γιώργος Παπαδόπουλος εξερευνούν τα μυστικά και τα θαύματα του κήπου, επιχειρούν μια διαδρομή στο υποσυνείδητο, συναντούν φανταστικούς ήρωες και αφουγκράζονται τις ιστορίες τους. 

Η βραδιά αναμένεται ακουστική με έντονα κινηματογραφική διάθεση, με στοιχεία φολκ και ρομαντικής μελαγχολίας, όπως ακριβώς ταιριάζει στις χειμωνιάτικες νύχτες. 

BLOCK 33

26ης Οκτωβρίου 33, 54630, Θεσσαλονίκη / τηλ. 2310533533

Προπώληση εισιτηρίων:

Lotus Record Shop/ Σκρα 7/ 2310260776

Stereodisc / Πλ. Αριστοτέλους 4/ 2310262912

Περισσότερες πληροφορίες:

www.yourhandinmineband.com

www.block33.gr

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/yourhandinmineband

http://www.inner-ear.gr/gr/artists/5-your-hand-mine/

http://www.myspace.com/theyourhandinmine

http://www.youtube.com/user/yourhandinmineband/videos

http://vimeo.com/yourhandinmine

Facebook event:

http://www.facebook.com/events/235431086533411/