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Released: Oct 9, 2007

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Genre: Experimental / Italian pop / Pop
Location Argos , Gr
Profile Views: 75475
Last Login: 1/21/2012
Member Since 5/27/2007
Website xdarawish.gr
Record Label Music Mirror
Type of Label Indie
Bio
X DARAWISH is a music group that plays world music and it was founded in BARI,ITALY in 1997.The group consists of STRATOS DIAMANTIS,ENZO LEONE,GIUSEPPE BERLEN and DIMOSTHENIS TSAMIS.Stratos and Enzo met at the and of the nineteen eighties at the university of BARI and both were members of the group AL DARAWISH. With AL DARAWISH they recorded two records, AL DARAWISH in 1992 (by il ponte sonoro),and RADIO DERVISH in 1996 (by il manifesto) for which they won the cagnony quality reads award for the use of accordion in Italian pop music by Stratos Diamantis. When in 1997 AL DARAWISH broke up ,some of the members started the group RADIODERVISH while Stratos and Enzo gave life to the group X DARAWISH with Angelo Pantaleo, Rocco Draicchio , Kostis Maraveyas and Domenico Ricco. In the same year they won first prize at the" pop and rock festival of Athens" that was organized by the radio station "Rock FM" the music school "filipos Nakas " and FM RECORDS company. In 1998 they recorded their first album "UNA RATSA MIA FATSA " (By FM RECORDS) which was released in Italy in 2000 (by IL MANIFESTO) and in the rest of Europe by (Koch International) with the participation of Vassilis Saleas on the clarinet and Andreas Pappas on percussions. In the same year they also released the videoclip from the single "NARGHILE " directed by NIKOS SOULIS. The song "Narghile'"was chosen by the French radio station RFI MUSIQUE in the collection for "TOP OF EUROPEAN POPS". X DARAWISH rapresented Greece and Italy in the same group with U2 and the single "sweetest thing " of Ireland. XDARAWISH have appeared in hundreds of television and radio shows ,have given over six hundred concerts in all of Europe and have taken part in different festivals like CARPINO FOLK FESTIVAL in Italy in 1997 ,CATERPILLAR FESTIVAL in Italy in 1998, YEA FESTIVAL in Greece in 1998, DRANOUTER FOLK FESTIVAL in Belgium in 1999, SUONI DAL MONDO IN RIVA DEL GARDA in Italy in 2001, FESTIVAL OF ARGOS in Greece in 2003 and 2008, FESTIVAL MEDITERRANEO OF CONVERSANO in Italy in 2005 and 2008, FESTIVAL MUSICHE DAL MONDO in Italy in 2006,COSMOPOLIS FESTIVAL in Greece in 2008 and have shared the stage with musicians like Bob Dylan, Nick Cave,James Taylor ,Elvis Costello.The new record of X DARAWISH "domino" was released in Greece in April 2008 by "Kathreftis". .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ITALIANO : X DARAWISH e un gruppo italogreco di world music formatosi a Bari nel 1997 e composto da Stratos Diamantis Enzo Leone e Dimosthenis Tsiamis. Stratos ed Enzo si conobbero negli anni Ottanta quando erano studenti universitari. Insieme entrano a far parte Del gruppo Al Darawish, Diamantis come fisarmonicista e Leone come chittarista. Il gruppo incide due album: AL DARAWISH nel 1993 e RADIO DERVISH nel 1996, quest' ultimo vinsse il premio CAGNONI QUALITY REEDS per l'uso della fisarmonica nella musica pop Italiana. Quando nel 1997 si scioglie, parte di loro fondagli Radiodervish mentre Stratos Diamantis ed Enzo Leone danno vita ai X Darawish insieme ad Angelo Pantaleo ,Kostis Maraveyas e Mimmo Ricco. Nel 1998 registrano il loro primo album, UNA RATSA MIA FATSA (Fm Records; ripubblicato nel 2000 da il manifesto) che frutta loro il premio POPnROCK del Conservatorio Fillipos Nakas di Atene e della radio Rock Fm come miglior gruppo emergente in Grecia del anno. Partecipano a varie trsmissioni televisive nazionali e Festival Internazionali ecollaborano con vari artisti (Vassilis Saleas, Andreas Papas, Dimitris Tsaousakis,Davide Viterbo).Nel 1998 producono insieme al famoso regista Greco "Nicos Soulis"il video clip del singolo Narghile'.Il cd single "Narghile'"viene scelto dalla Radio Francese RFI musique nella compilation "Top of European Pops". Gli X DARAWISH rappresentano la Grecia e l' Italia nella stessa compilation con I U2 ed il single 'sweetest thing' del Irlanda. Nel 1999 esce il disco 'Una ratsa mia fatsa' in Gran Bretania recensito da Ian Aderson per la rivista 'FOLK ROOTS'. Lo stesso anno gli X Darawish suonano al " Dranouter Folk Festival'" in Belgio insieme a ( Nick Cave ,James Taylor, Levellers ..). Nel 2000 il brano 'Vassilikos' si trova nelle playlist di radio Europee come la ' Radio 1' del Belgio , 'MultiKulti' di Berlino . Nel 2002 ancora in tour suonano ad Argos (Grecia) , Foggia (Italia) , insieme al loro nuovo cantante Dimosthenis Tsamis. Partecipano al Festival Mditerraneo di Conversano come ospiti ,nel 2006 ai Festival 'Musiche dal Mondo' insieme a Bob Dylan. Nel Marzo del 2008 e stato pubblicato in Grecia il loro nuovo lavoro con il titolo (DOMINO).
Members
STRATOS DIAMANTIS : accordeon,percussions, voice, composition, lyrics. - ENZO LEONE: electric guidar, voice, composition, lyrics - DIMOSTHENIS TSAMIS: voice - GIUSEPPE BERLEN: drums - - COLLABORATORS - - DIMITRIS GALANIS_indie.inky.pixel: illustrator_cartoonist- DAVIDE VITERBO : sound engeneer - CHRISTOS ZELELIDIS: drums - OMIROS KOMNINOS: bass - DOMENICO RICCO : bass - ARTEMIS CHRISTOFILAKOS: lyrics - MICHELE PERUGINI: drums - ANDREA GALLO: bass - DIMITRIS TALAROUGAS: percussions. -OLD MEMBERS AND COLLABORATORS- ANGELO PANTALEO,DIEGO MORGA,GIANNIS NONIS,ROCCO DRAICCHIO,KOSTIS MARAVEYAS,HLIAS MOROS ,ALDO BAGNONI. ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ........................View all ....X Darawish tour dates........
Influences
3 MUSTAPHA 3 , DISSIDENTEN , BATTIATO FRANCO, NIKOS PAPAZOGLOU , NEGRESSES VERDES , ZAGORAIOS , MOHAMED MUNIR ,CHEB HASNI , MOZART , EDGAR VARESE , NATASSA ATLAS , HATZIDAKIS , TSAOUSAKIS PRODROMOS , NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN , .. ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ....................
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.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ______X DARAWISH BOMBA NUCLEARE Stop motion or frame-by-frame animation Video Art By indie.inky.pixel .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. gana de trabajar by X DARAWISH at FestAmbiente Sud festival 2008

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Gli Al Darawish si sono divisi in due gruppi : X Darawish e Radiodervish.

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