Pulsar Samothraki Art Festival 2023

Pulsar Samothraki Art Festival 2023

www.pulsarfestivalgreece.com

4 - 7/8/2023

 CULTURAL SPACE “ERGOSTASIO”
SAMOTHRAKI

FRIDAY 4/8/23
Babis Papadopoulos DUO LIVE

Babis Papadopoulos is a musician and composer. He became best known as the guitarist of the band Trypes and several of their songs are his own compositions. In the spring of 2008, his first personal album is released, with which his personal recording journey begins. To date, he has recorded eight personal records, music for theater and cinema and presents his work in concerts with the alternating projects: Babis Papadopoulos Electric Solo, Babis Papadopoulos DUO, Babis Papadopoulos Trio and Babis Papadopoulos Acoustic Set. Also, since 2010 he is a member of the Himerini Kolimvites group.
Petros Damianidis: Double bass
Babis Papadopoulos: Guitar/voice
Noisy P composes music inspired by the images around him. His music is a combination of electronic, cinematic and ambient music while his lyrics draw elements from the greek and international folk scene. He started writing songs in the quiet evenings on the first floor of an apartment in Ioannina and to this day, he creates and tells stories that reach the ends of the earth.
Noisy P: Ableton/ synths/ loops/ voice

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SATURDAY 5/8/23
Michalis Siganidis & Lambrakis Group

​Michalis Siganidis is a Greek musician, composer and lyricist. He plays double bass and guitar and is a member of the Greek jazz scene. He is a permanent member of the Himerini Kolimvites legendary band and of the Primavera en Salonico. He  collaborates, in his personal work, with musicians of the contemporary improvised music scene in Greece under various schemes, such as the Lambrakis Group, Friends of Miltos Sakhtouri (F.M.S.), The Hus-Band, Siganidis Tours, etc. His music is characterized by a strong improvisational style with influences from traditional music. He still uses sound collages of recordings in his compositions. 
 
The Lambrakis Group consists of:
Michalis Siganidis: Double bass/electric & acoustic guitar/samples
Haris Lambrakis: Ney/keyboards
Theano Metaxa: vocals
Vassilis Mantzoukis: Drums/percussion
Yannis Anastasakis: Electric guitar/effects/musical saw

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SUNDAY 6/8/23
Dimitri “Mitsos” Poulikakos & “Geia sou Taki” band

Dimitris Poulikakos... Musician, actor, radio producer. He is a living History, an original man who does not mince his words... He was a member of the band MGC in the early 60s, leader of Hexadaktylos in the 70s, has three personal records and is preparing the fourth with his new band "Gia sou Taki". He has collaborated with many Greek artists and is considered one of the main representatives of the so-called "greek rock" and the “beat” generation in Greece. He was a radio producer known by the nickname given to him by Pavlos Sidiropoulos "uncle Nondas". As an actor he played in films such as "Harpa Kolla", "Dracula of Exarchia", "The Suspended Step of the Stork" by Theo Angelopoulos, and TV series such as "The Arbitrary". Mitsos Poulikakos is living his many years of adolescence. He turned 80 in January and celebrated with teen energy, playing non-stop four-hour concerts in Kyttaro club, along with his band!
 
The “Geia sou Taki” band are:
Vassilis Spyropoulos – Lead guitar/vocals, the "salt" of the group
Giorgos "Pfeffer" Piperis – Rhythm Guitar, the "pepper" of the group
Vangelis Chanos – Acoustic guitar/vocals, the "quiet force" of the group
Kostis Kouvdos – Slide guitar/harmonica, "the choir master" of the group
Aphrodite "Titi" Riga - Keyboards/percussion/vocals, the "farmer" of the group
Dinos "Dee" Zouberis - Bass/vocals, the "Zoo Master" of the group
Panagiotis "Tsiko" Katsikiotis – Drums/percussion/vocals, the "centurion" of the group
Babis Paritsis - Violin
and of course Dimitris "Mitsos" Poulikakos – Voice/guitar/percussion/harmonica, the "Old Paloukios" of the group

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MONDAY 7/8/23
Thrax Punks

Back in 2006, in Orestiada, George and Vaitsis formed a band with a purely traditional style.. Soon, however, they started experimenting with other musical genres and sounds and in 2015, with the arrival of Panos, they acquired their special electric characteristic sound along with live looping, psychedelic passages, heavy guitars and the punk aesthetics that opened their way them to the most important domestic festivals as well as many european tours, with their "punk festival psychedelia" as vehicle. In 2017, they meet Markos Koutsianas, who takes over the sound editing of their Thrax Punks record and integrates into the group. They compose music for theater and cinema and in 2021 they performed live their original music for Euripides' tragedy “Bacchian Women” as part of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival.
 
The Thrax Punks are:
Giorgos Stavridis: Dauli/lyre/voice
Vaitsis Harokopidis: Bagpipes/kaval/voice
Panos Ginis: Guitars
Markos Koutsianas: sound engineering

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