Current mambers:
Evripidis Sabatis (vocals, piano, hammond, melodica)
Christina De Sola ( violin )
Marisol Simó (vocals)
Annie Arjona(vocals, metalophone)
Jaume Ribell (drums)
Victor Antolin (bass)
Abel Puyol (saxophone, percussion)
Past/ Occasional collaborators:
Aleix Clavera (bass)
Odil Bright (vocals, hammond)
Nora Gala (vocals)
Iker Glez (bass)
Sergi Puyol (banjo)
Mark Ribera (vocals, musical saw, percussion)
Manel Ibañez (guitar, clarinete)
Jose Paadin (autoharp, guitar)
Rafa Ibañez (saxophone)
Influences
The Magnetic Fields, The Beach Boys, everything by Phil Spector, sixties girl-groups, doo-wop, Scott Walker, Nico, The Velvet Underground, Marianne Faithfull, Leonard Cohen, Serge Gainsbourg, Kate Bush, Soft Cell, Pet Shop Boys ,The Hidden Cameras, The Moldy Peaches , Kimya Dawson, the Arcade Fire, Jens Lekman, Jonathan Richman, Television Personalities, The Field Mice, Pale Fountains, Saint Etienne,The Pastels, Heavenly,The Smiths, Felt, Joy Division, Suicide, Fanuelle, Sufjan Stephens, Baroque music, The Hunger, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Rosemary's Baby, Nosferatu, Dr.caligari, The night of the living dead, Rebel without a cause, Afterhours, The Wickerman, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, The virgin suicides, Quadrophenia, Les Roiseaux Sauvages, IF..., A clockwork orange, Billy Liar, Blow Up,early Almadovar, 60´s greek cinema, la Dolce Vita, Brazil, La planete Sauvage, Life of Brian, Saturday night and sunday morning, Wuthering Heights, Liaisons Dangereuses, The story of the Eye, The favourite game, Life after God, Jonatahn Livingston seagull, The never ending story, A Catcher in the Rye, Antarctica, Vurt, The Little Vampire, The Plague, La Condesa Sangriente, Dracula, Venus in Furs, The Philosophy in the Boudoir, Suddenly last summer, Anais Nin and her wild fantasies, Neils Holgerson who flew with the wild geese, James Dean who always seemed troubled, W.A Mozart who died poor and miserable, J.S.Bach who knew everything about poliphony, F.Chopin whose heart was sent back Poland after his death, Marlene Dietrich and her husky voice, Vivian Leigh and her crazy tempers, Blanche Dubois and the kindness of the strangers, Medea as the icon of the desperate lover, Joe Meek and Brian Wilson being
sad and too clever for this world, Jeronimus Bosch and his visions of hell, El Griego and the long faces he painted, Edgar Alan Poe and his epileptic crisis, Aubrey Beardsley and his amorous faunos, Oscar Wilde and his aesthetic ideals getting rotten in a prison, Sally Bowles in a wild twenties Berlin, Arthur Seaton who would not be beaten,The long -distance runner and hs loneliness, The Baron Munchauzen and his fantastic lies, Petit Nicolas being the mischievous kid I never was, Lilipoupoli (the perfect radio programme that I grew up with) , Nan Goldin and her photos of a world that´s on the brink of something terrible and still radiates beauty, love, kitchen-sink dramas, friends, ex-lovers, current lovers, heroes that fall apart, Gabriella from Holloway road, decadent nightlife, fantastic parties, fsantasstic men and women, dancing upon a volcanoe, dancing with myself, being away from those who love, feeling safe or unsafe, poor dull Varkiza, missed Athens, gray but exciting London, easy-going Barcelona, fun Madrid, fab Berlin, Club Decadence (the original one in Exarhia...) and its filthy wooden floors and our teenage drunken nights, natural disasters, emotional disasters, commercial suicides, dirty pavements, kissing the floors, french kissing , some boys that I once got to know better, long and lazy summer holidays in the Cyclades, orgasms in a tent , lonely scary nights, baroque furniture and rococo paintings, heavy velvet curtains, gothic cathedrals, castles, cementeries, a forgotten hammond at Toynbee Hall, the cities' skylines, scyscrapers, wastelands, early dawnings and Sunday mornings, the cockroaches that scared me to death , that favourite shirt of mine that used to be white and turned into grey, my piano teacher , my family, memories of love and invitations to teenage parties. But mostly all that is no longer here and all that is yet to come.
Sounds Like
the sound of scratching nails trying to open a hole and come out in the light
Buy Evripidis and his Tragedies cd in the UK from ROUGH TRADE
and SISTER RAY
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Evripidis and his Tragedies began as a personal musical project of Evripidis ....in the beginning it was a solo thing but then Evripidis discovered that his girlfriends Marisol ( from the groups Eleva, Elevator ), Nora , Odil and Annie (from the group How dare U!) had all fantastic voices and a lot of talent...apart from being really fun to hang around with! During the same time Cristina was added on violin, giving the necessary dark wave-meets-baroque touch. Later there was Iker (from the groups Mus, Las Esferas Invisibles) on bass and occasional guitar and Jaume on drums ( although he was not a drummer, but that was the brilliant thing...he used to play keyboards with the Epic Kind). So, depending on the venue Evripidis and his tragedies were a one-man show or a crowded scene really.
After recording a 7-inch single in collaboration with spanish artists Jeleton, Evripidis and is Tragedies recorded his debut on Barcelona..s Touchme records produced by long time collaborator Manel Ibañez ( from the groups Bubbles, Les tres bien enseble, Megaafonia) and Gerard Civat. After some time some key changes took place. Since Iker lives in another city, a new bass player was added, Aleix (a very prolific kid as he is also a member of Alba y Aleix and Extraperlo and played in a zillion other bands from time to time...) and a saxophone player, and Abel ( Le Pianc, El guisante magico) who added a groovy touch to whichever song he should set his hands upon...and he is also a good dancer (What do you mean is he a good dancer? well how does he dance? close, very very close...)! So they went on,working on new songs and giving concerts...once more, they could be 9 people on stage being noisy loud or just Evripidis humming quietly...or maybe Evripidis just with Marisol...or Marisol and Anie...or Marisol and Anie and Abel...all the combinations were posible and still are.
Last year they recorded a version of the Magnetic Fields.. song "time enough for rocking when we are old" for a tribute cd. you can download it for free, as well as the whole compilation here http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=18256924&blogID=365739321 In addition, they also recorded a 9-song ep in collaboration with Catalan visual artist David Bestué. For this project, as well as for the Magnetic Fields cover, producers were Manel Ibañez and Gerard Civat.
This year new changes took place. Aleix went to tour with El Guincho and Victor came to play the bass. Evripidis.. flatmate Mark Ribera (from he group Abrevadero) started collaborating regularly, recording and singing in concerts. Also Abel..s brother Sergi started recording and playing with them ocasionally. Nora lives in another city and Odil is making her own music.
Evripidis and his Tragedies recently recorded the soundtrack for a short film by Jordi Cusso that will be shown soon. Evripidis and his Tragedies is currently preparing a new record with all those people who played with him this last year and some new ones , playing live,rehearsing , sipping cocktails, driving himself( and the unlucky others who are close to him) crazy and writing some more music.
For booking , either me or all of the band,
write at info@fikasound.com
or call Patricia at 0034 661 92 46 67/0034 91 381 30 78
www.fikasound.com
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"Abroad" Videoclip, directed by Jordi Cussó
Hombre Caminando
Trailer of "Hombre caminando", a short film by Jordi Cussó, music by Evripidis and his Tragedies
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videoclip of "Ru Ru I..d love to..."
directed by Vanvelvet, produced by Marisol Simó
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