Medeski Martin & Wood, John Scofield, Herbie Hancock, James Brown, Bill Laswell. Laurent De Wilde, Niels Peter Molvaer, Systemwide, King Tubby, Lee "Scratch" Perry, John Zorn, Cinematic Orchestra, Red Snapper, Petroloukas Chalkias, greek traditional soloists, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Mercan Dede...
Sounds Like
dub, funk, balcan, middle eastern and greek traditional music.
Happy Dog Project is a Greek band formed in an appartment @ downtown Athens, Greece, during the summer of 2000.
The band performs it's own music that incorporates elements from balkan/greek traditional odd meters and funky/hip hop beats, mediterranean/middle eastern echoes, jazz impro, noises, dub and electro ambiences.
The band's style changed over the years. In the beggining, it was more rough and hip hop-ish with DJ Marble spining vinyls and the band improvising along with guitar, hammond and rhodes in the front row. After some time, thinking and concers, the band focused more to the music of our own region of the world: the mediterranean/balkan/greek music and the rhythm signatures that come form this area.
Happy Dog Project performed so far in live various venues, clubs and open air festivals in Greece and in Turkey (15th Akbank Jazz Festival @ Babylon Club, Istanbul).
The band's first CD entitled "Dog Days Are Over" was out @ April 2004 from Ankh Records and their second one, entitled "Doggy Style", will be released soon from Ankh Records as well. Both CD's produced by Manolis Angelakis (with Stathis Ioannou on the second release).
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ye,we had a spa party & a flight on a light airplain above the dead sea & Mazada & other mountain peaks around,,i never had a vacation like that! it was hot as hell down there,but its part of the fun ofcoures :)
HI WASSUP?,,HAD A GREAT WEEKEND AT A DEAD SEA'S FANCY SPA HOTEL,,WITH ALL THE GUYS FROM THE STUDIO,,STUDIO PAIED FOR EVERYTHING,,WE WENT THERE BY LIMOSINS & ALL,,,CRAZY VACATION :D
Come to Technoplis, Peiraios 100, Gazi, for the European Music Day, a 3-day Summer Solstice celebration! Thursday 19/6 at 8:00 pm: the POWERFIELD PROJECT of Alexandros Hahalis with flutist Rakesh Chaurasia and saxophonist Alex Foster... on stage also Anna Omiridi (vocals & dance), Raymond Penn and Kostas Aktypis (percussion)...
if its a good gig so..it'll come,,& u'v been in 1 not long ago(vacation) anyway,,Im going on 1 tomorrow,,all ppl from the studio are going to a fancy spa hotel in the dead sea for a long weekend,,everything's on the house,,we were told not to bring wallets,money or credit cards,,its gonna be wild. :D
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