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Tour Manager: Markos P.
Email: blackoceanband(@)yahoo.com
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Tas started surfing and skating in Greece in the 70's, has been recognized as "The Godfather of Surf and Skate (in Greece)", and is a co-founder of a surf crew called the CST. Tas skated professionally as a teenager and currently has a pro surfboard model called "The Wavekillah" by Greek shaper JT of Cohete Surfboards. Tas is featured in the upcoming films "Water Time" by Allan Weisbecker, "Rattle & Break", "Pure Source Primal Force", "Transcending ART", "Radlands & Skate Ratz", and "Freedom or Death".
Tas is sponsored in Greece by Cohete Surfboards, Creatures of Leisure, Innes Clothing, Venice Originals Skate Shop, Nodus Shop & Distribution, The Ikarus.
Black Ocean merch available at shows.
*A very special thanks to Steve Albini, Billy Howard, and Eric McCorkle for recording and making the album.
CHECK OUT THERAPY? + Black Ocean Live! at Kyttaro Club Thurs, Jan 21, 2010
"BLACK OCEAN Live! at Kyttaro Club" Promo DVD by JumpCut Productions (Part 1 of 4) below.
Inspired by the Z-Boys, Greek rock trio BLACK OCEAN have delivered their Steve Albini recorded debut album 'DOGTOWN'; the kind of album that lets you believe in the power of passionate rock music again.
With the sound of The Kings Of Leon being abused by Nirvana, Black Ocean takes US college rock and gives it a well deserved punch in the face leaving it bloodied, raw and stunned - replacing the smug self awareness with an injection of rock n roll spirit. With huge lurching guitar riffs and a massive drum sound, 'Dogtown' takes you back to early Nirvana and Mudhoney - dynamic pop music that steamrolls over you and leaves you exhausted but happy. While a band like The Foo Fighters does this kind of sweetly melodic pop-rock and strips it of any soul or passion with a slick overproduced sheen and way too much money, Black Ocean have that perfect level of raw grit and sweat, managing to sound like they're actually playing right there in the corner of your room threatening to tear a hole in your speakers.
With the power and conviction to make you truly believe, juggling hardcore, epic rock, grunge and country punk, Black Ocean are kinda like Nirvana meets The Lemonheads meets The Meat Puppets meets Fugazi. Echoing the likes of Nirvana's debut record or the early Soundgarden, Tad and Mudhoney material these are dynamic pop songs with a hardcore edge, replacing slickness for a gritty live feel and rock attitude. Black Ocean have delivered a "Streetcore" record that shifts from grimy hardcore menace to a country punk groove with the odd epic rock moment thrown in for good measure, and as such deserves to be heard and loved by as many people as humanly possible.
Further Listening: Nirvana>Bleach (1991>Sub Pop)
Kings Of Leon>Youth And Young Manhood (2003>Hand Me Down Records) The Lemonheads>Creator (1986>Taang! Records) -- Mike Bond
BLACK OCEAN "Black and Blue" Music Video below (1st Single from CD).
"BLACK OCEAN Live! at Kyttaro Club" (Part 2 of 4) below.
BLACK OCEAN "Dogtown"
“Dogtown: radical, rebellion, aggression, chaos, expression, style, art, pure source, primal force. This album holds all those things, no question about it. So what better album title than “Dogtown”. Inspired by the life changing movement from the Z-Boys, Tas has lived his whole life influenced by their rebellious approach to society. Skating and surfing with them in the 70’s, he shaped his life by promoting the essence of their attitude through his skating, surfing, way of life, and this album. Recorded out of pure chaos and rebelliousness, in one night they created 27 songs in one take. 13 songs were chosen for this album. Continuing to live the dream through skating, surfing, and no compromising; Black Ocean is opening the doors for real Rock n’ Roll for this generation through the inspiring resurrection of pure stoke and simplicity.” - Queen Isis
BLACK OCEAN "I Want To Know" Music Video below.
"BLACK OCEAN Live! at Kyttaro Club" (Part 3 of 4) below.
BLACK OCEAN, ανερχόμενη grunge/rock μπάντα με ιδρυτικό μέλος και frontman τον αρχιερέα (και πρώην Pro) του Surf και Skate με το όνομα Tas (a.k.a. The Godfather of Surf and Skate in Greece), ο οποίος ήταν από τους πρώτους surfers και skaters στην Ελλάδα με αξιόλογη μουσική θητεία στο εξωτερικό έχοντας κάνει αρκετά band projects και αμέτρητα support acts για μπάντες όπως οι Iggy Pop, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Social Distortion, Meat Puppets, Slightly Stoopid, Jimmy Cliff, Screaming Trees, DGeneration, The Melvins, Jesus Lizard, JFA, Goo Goo Dolls, TSOL, The Godfathers, New Bomb Turks, Scream, και Royal Trux και έχοντας παίξει live μαζί με μέλη των Black Flag, Bad Religion, REM, Nine Inch Nails, Flogging Molly, The Replacements, NOFX, Surf Punks, My Morning Jacket, Danzig, και Agent Orange.
Ο ήχος της μπάντας "Streetcore" κινείται μεταξύ juggling hardcore, epic rock, grunge και country punk μπλεγμένα με στοιχεία Nirvana, The Lemonheads, The Meat Puppets, Mudhoney και Fugazi. Το album των BLACK OCEAN με τίτλο “Dogtown” κυκλοφορεί ήδη από την ARCHANGEL MUSIC ενώ έχει ηχογραφηθεί και μιξαριστεί από τον ίδιο τον Steve Albini.
Οι BLACK OCEAN είχαν ψηφιστεί από το UK press ως "One of the Top 20 Upcoming Bands" (μια από τις Top 20 ανερχόμενες μπάντες) και ήταν σημείο αναφοράς για το περιοδικό NME Magazine.
"BLACK OCEAN Live! at Kyttaro Club" (Part 4 of 4) below.
"RATTLE & BREAK: An Experience of Black Ocean Live" A film by Conner Lewis (to be available soon on dvd)
"RATTLE & BREAK: An Experience of Black Ocean Live" is a document of a rock and roll band on the verge of breaking out. This film is a document of what Rock and Roll is all about: going to see a band live - the experience before, during, and after the show. Every great band has to start somewhere, and I personally would be overjoyed if there were more films like "Rattle & Break" about my favorite bands before they were legendary. I am not so interested in seeing a big budget "real-life" film on a popular band after they made it. I want to see them before anyone knew them; to see why they made it, and what made them so great in the first place. Black Ocean and their performance in the film clearly shows the viewer what they missed not being there that one special night.
My idea with "Rattle & Break" was to capture the band at its' most raw form, to give the viewer the feeling of what it would be like to witness the band live in concert through their own eyes of perception. I used only one camera and wherever my eyes went, the camera went. There are no edits, only pauses - like in real life. This film is an art experiment (since I am an artist, not a film maker) where anybody with a camera and a simple computer program could ideally make a indie film about a band in concert. D.I.Y. and Punk Rock go hand in hand always. Since Black Ocean is as pure as rock and roll can be, it is fitting that their first document on film should be as simple and raw as their music: urgent, powerful, and bursting with integrity. - Conner Lewis/Director
BLACK OCEAN "Rattle & Break" Music Video below.
BLACK OCEAN Live! on MAD TV below.
Many more vids on youtube (see blog above for link)
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