THODORIS ZIARKAS - MONOLOGUE 01

Released 27 October 2017.

Hand-printed limited edition.

Thodoris Ziarkas - double bass & cretan lyra

All music composed and improvised by Thodoris Ziarkas

an autonomous release

VALIA CALDA EP

Released 10 November 2014

Rob Milne - bass clarinet & flute

Sam Warner - trumpet

Nikos Ziarkas - guitar, electronics, cretan lute

Thodoris Ziarkas - double bass, cretan lyra, tsambuna

Gaspar Sena – drums

Guests musicians:

Tom Green - trombone , Saul - vocals,

Alexandros Miaris – analog synths, Theodoros ‘‘Siozos’’ Ziarkas – voice

Photos by Vipasana Roy

VALIA CALDA ''METHEXIS"

Released 18 May 2018

Sam Warner - trumpet & flugelhorn

James Allsopp - bass clarinet & tenor sax

Nikos Ziarkas - guitar & electronics

Thodoris Ziarkas - double bass

Gaspar Sena – drums

Produced by Valia Calda & George Botis

Cover photo by Enri Canaj

BLAM! Attached/Detached

Released January 2014

Alex Bezzina - Trumpet/Flugelhorn

Maria Chiara Argirò - Piano

Thodoris Ziarkas - Double Bass

Leandro Mancini-Olivos - Drums

Guests:

Tal Janes- Guitar, Rob Milne - Tenor Sax, Bass Clarinet

String Quartet:

John Garner - Violin, Johannes Marmén - Violin,

Marie Schreer - Viola, Sarah Joyce - Cello

Photo by Anna Emilia Becker

Artwork by Chiara Manzoni -Amadlab-

ROMAN GOMEZ & THODORIS ZIARKAS ''VIGILIA"

Released 2 October 2018

Roman Gomez - piano

Thodoris Ziarkas - double bass

All music composed by Roman Gomez

except #3 by Eduardo di Capua and #6 by Maria Teresa Vera.

Photo by Vipasana Roy

[Appearances]

TASOS STAMOU "Musique con Crète"

Released 27 May 2018

Tasos Stamou presents his most recent electroacoustic music project ‘Musique con Crète’.

The project is the result of a three-year creative research project across Crete (GR). Starting with an artist residency the musician visited the Greek island over the course of three summers, collecting field recordings, performing with local musicians, producing electronic compositions and gathering old records and tapes of traditional music of the region. The project resulted in the assembling of a unique sound collage which reflects his personal experience as a music visitor to this part of the Mediterranean with one of the richest ancient history and living traditions.

MIMIKA ORCHESTRA ''Divinities of the Earth and the Waters''

Released 25 May 2018

Mimika Orchestra's new album Set in the mysterious world of the ancient Balkans, the album is a fusion of progressive and orchestral music, old Slavic and South Slavic / x-Yugoslav / Balkan folk music and contemporary jazz. It follows a story of a protagonist who sees himself as an effigy in a folk festival, finishing with the burning of the doll, i.e. metaphorically seeing the burning as a funeral for himself and for his society. It is a psychedelic / dreamy album dedicated to the late Oberon King (who was Mimika's previous drummer), to the Yugoslav identity and exposing the richness of Slavic folk music and rhythms as inspirations.