Filed under: Diaries | Tags: Bianca, CityFM, Cyanna, free download, Guru, Jason, Just A Crash, Like Fire, live, Louie, Nick Sid, Panousis, Paranoid GF, Provis, Serafeim, Spyreas, Stelios Vlachakis, Sygkatikos, Teo Zefkilis, Wanna Be Your Dog, Zavara
It was a Sunday afternoon earlier this year, February 8th. We parked the cars with our gear outside the Guru Bar in Psyrri, downtown Athens. Five minutes later, our hosts for the gig and radio show broadcast Serafeim, Stelios (Provis) and Vasilis (Sigkatikos) arrived in their soccer outfits (tres sportif garcons) and helped us carry all the stuff up. The live stage of the club was set up on the third floor and the radio installation was set on a small attic right above the live stage floor. We spent the entire afternoon setting up everything, drinking anything we could find in the closed bar, eating junk food and discussing how we would fit our 14 lines into the 8-track console available for the live broadcast. The PA system of the club was no problem the only tricky part was the radio broadcast for CityFM 99,5.. but as you can hear in these 4 songs we have available for you to download, I think we did ok in the end after all! (more…)
Filed under: Diaries, Making Music | Tags: Cyanna, Done Be, Epihirisis Apollon, Greek Cinema Revisited, Just A Crash, Kyttaro, Planet Of Zeus, Stab Me, Zavara, Zavarakatranemia
Last month the “Just A Crash” album finally hit the stores all around Greece and Cyprus. For those who still can’t find it at the local record store let us know please. Its also on digital sale via the iTunes store and some other e-shops.
Since the album’s completion in December 07 we haven’t actually taken a break. We did a remix for Planet of Zeus -”Stab Me”- which is available for everyone to download from our myspace profile (myspace.com/cyannamercury). Then we recorded a new track -“Zavara”- to be released this month in a compilation by SonyBMG under the conceptual title “Greek Cinema Revisited”. This track was inspired by the classic “Zavarakatranemia” original theme song of the film “Epihirisis Apollon”. You can listen to this track here.
During the last months we also created a video, a short film actually for the opening track of the album – “Done Be”. Directed by Grigoris Panopoulos and shot in numerous locations in Athens, this video will soon be uploaded on YouTube for you all to see.
We also have a gig coming up this Sunday 18th of May at the Kyttaro Club downtown Athens. Apart from the new album we will perform the new track “Zavara” as well.
Stay tuned – more live dates to be announced soon.
