SOFIA LAMPROPOULOU

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Bisotoon (with Mamak Khadem)

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Released: Jan 1, 2007

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Bisotoon (with Mamak Khadem)
6:14
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Kanun+live electronics-excerpt
1:25
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A poet's estate-Kanun Theme(K.Dimouleas)
0:30
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A poet's estate-Ending titles(Dimouleas)
2:08
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Hibernation(with Interstellar overdrive)
4:52
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Genre: Other
Location Athens, Gr
Profile Views: 28298
Last Login: 3/5/2013
Member Since 6/5/2009
Type of Label Unsigned
Bio
...... ..Myspace Editor.... ..Pimp MySpace.. .... Sofia Lampropoulou has been playing Kanun since 1997. She graduated from Pallini music school. She was awarded a diploma in Byzantine music (tutored by S.Pavlakis).She studied piano (with Nelly Semitekolo), classical percussion (with K. Vorisis and K. Thodorakos) and traditional percussion (with V. Karipis) in Greece. In 2003 she moved to Istanbul to study the Kanun with leading exponents of the instrument such as Ahmet Meter and Hakan Gungor (as for the technique of the instrument) and Omer Erdogdular and Necati Celik (Eastern theory-maqams). As a soloist she has collaborated with some of the most prominent traditional and alternative musicians, actors, directors and ensebles in Greece and abroad such as: D. Samiou, Chronis Aidonidis, Glikeria, Oresti Karamanli, Interstellar Overdrive, Kostas Dimouleas, Karolos Voutsinas, Giorgos Trandalidis. Thanasis Moraitis, Kostas Kastanas, Elsa Stavridou, Evi Dimitropoulou, Claire Bloom, Marta Sebestyen, Kalman Balog, Victoria Herenzar, Haig Yazdjian, Ross Daly, Ballake Sissoko, Mamak Khadem, Efrin Lopez, Niyazi Sayin, Omer Erdogdular, Ahmet Erdogdular, Necati Celik, Ulas Ozdemir, Mehmet Gureli, Lamia Bedioui, "THRIA" Orchestra, the Orchestra of Athen's municipality, and others. Since 2005, she has been teaching at the Music School of Athens (Odeio Athinon).
Members
Sofia is a member of The Oriendal Big Bang "Babuba" which consists of: Haris Labrakis (Ney), Lefteris (Guitar- oud, vocals), Martha Mavroidi (lafta- vocals), Giorgos Ventouris (bass), Kostas Meretakis (percution, vocals), Stratis Psaradellis (Kemence) She also plays with Naziha Azzouz trio: Naziha Azzouz (vocals), Nora Thielle (percution), Sofia Labropoulou (Kanun) Sofia is the musical arranger of the project "Bridges" (combination of Greek and Hungarian music) with Marta Sebestyen. She is also a member of Karolos Voutsinas' Band with: Karolos Voutsinas (piano), Mamak Khadem (Vocals), Matheos Tsahouridis (Pontic Lyra), Giannis Plagiannakos (Double Bass), Tigran Sargsyan (Doudouk), Nikos Darilas (Drums), Vasilis Katsambelas (Percution) and Maria Manousaki (Violin). With her sister Ourania Lampropoulou (santur), they have a duet that they perform mainly eastern mediterranean and balkan traditional music. Recently they performed at SARC (Sonic Arts Research Center at Queen's University in Belfast) among others, a seriers of newly-composed pieces (for Kanun and santur with live electronics) written specisfically for the occasion by SARC composer, Orestis Karamanlis www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/~okaramanlis.
Influences
Ahmet Meter, Omer Erdogdular, Balkan music, Ballake Sissoko and African Music, Marta Sebestyen, Sokratis Sinopoulos, Chick Corea, Oskar Peterson, Annouar Brahem, Sonny Rollings, Wayne Shorter(+Quartet), Herbie Hancock, Paco de Lucia, Kronos Quartet, Mihaly Dresch Quartet, Horace Silver, Erkan Ogur, Michel Camillo, John McLaughlin, Shostakovich, Erik Satie, Earth Wind and Fire, Tower of Power, The Who, Arvo Part, Dastan Ensemble, L'Ham de Foc, Efrin Lopez, Bulent Ersoy, Muassez Ersoy, Kibariye, Gipsy Music, Fairuz, Eleni Vitali, Cannonball Adderley, Joshua Redman, dance of all kinds, Homerus, Epikouros, Arhilohos, Tasos Livaditis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Odisseas Elitis, Nikos Gatsos, Giorgos Souris, Lili Zografou, F.G.Lorca, Aris Alexandrou, Kostadinos Kavafis, Sun Tzu, Lao Tzu, Teos Romvos, Gourtzief, Jean Cocteau, Evgene Ionesko, Luther Blissett, Albert Camus, Dostoyevsky, Andrey Tarkovski, Ed Wood, Chrisostomos Patoulas (...haha) and generally talking, influenced by Chaos and Infinite...
Sounds Like
Sofia' s both instruments were made in Istanbul by Kenan Ozten and Zafer Kibar (www.kenanozten.com).