The steel of SEPTICFLESH meets the symphonic sound of the State Orchestra of Athens as a part of the eighth Basic Rock, on Saturday, September 28.
“At Irodeion, we actually need to play sooner or later. It isn’t straightforward not just for the explanations I discussed above (together with closed doorways, obstacles and prejudices), but additionally for bureaucratic and organizational causes, as you need to submit a request, undergo a committee; it takes months of preparation. For a steel band that does world excursions, the prospect of enjoying within the Herodeum with an orchestra and choir is a problem. We’ll pursue it anyway and I consider that sooner or later we are going to succeed”.
The late Sotiris Vagenas, founding member and “quiet power” of SEPTICFLESHwithin the interview he gave to Documento in October 2022 on the event of the band’s concert events in Athens and Thessaloniki.
And two years later, the fullness of time got here to understand their nice purpose SEPTICFLESHwho, whereas they’ve given concert events accompanied by nice orchestras overseas, had not managed to do one thing comparable in their very own nation.
The announcement of the September twenty eighth live performance on the Herodeion was introduced final Friday by themselves posting on social media a picture during which the band’s brand was married to the form of the historic Odeon, which has lengthy since opened its doorways to the worldwide rock group and now he’ll do it for one of many greatest Greek bands which have left their mark on the worldwide steel scene as one of the crucial influential acts of their style.
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With a 24-year profession, eleven studios and two reside albums, together with “Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX” with the accompaniment of the Symphony Orchestra of Mexico consisting of 140 musicians and a 40-member choir, the band enjoys worldwide recognition.
That is additionally the challenge that can current the eighth Basic Rock in Herodeion the place the sounds of SEPTICFLESH they may meet the symphonic sound of the State Orchestra of Athens, for the primary time in Greece, whereas the Piraeus Vocal Ensemble LIBRO CORO will full the distinctive audiovisual spectacle. A mixture that can be a pole of attraction for followers of the band from overseas. A band whose affect has reached the internationally prestigious Berklee Faculty of Music in Boston that selected the scores from 4 compositions of SEPTICFLESH and included them in his music library, for examine by his college students.
Who’re SEPTICFLESH?
The SEPTICFLESH fashioned in Greece within the early 90s, by Spyridon Antoniou on vocals/bass, Christos Antoniou on guitar and Sotirios Vagenas on guitar/clear vocals. From their debut album ‘Mystic Locations of Daybreak’, they experimented with soundtrack-like components by way of the nine-minute instrumental ‘Mythos’. On the similar time, a major a part of the lyrics was based mostly on the mythology of historical civilizations, with an emphasis on Greece. This was extra evident within the subsequent album that adopted, with the Greek title “ESOPTRON” which had a extra philosophical orientation.
The Greek cultural component is promoted all through their musical journey, with songs equivalent to “Morpheus the Dreamlord”, “Narcissus”, “Tartarus”, “Prometheus”, “Martyr” (which refers back to the pioneering mathematician and thinker Hypatia) and so on. a.
Musically, the band, past its structural steel character, all the time flirted with symphonic music, which it included increasingly more over time. In his first steps, he collaborated with Natalia Rasoulis (daughter of the late lyricist Manolis Rasoulis), including feminine operatic vocals to the compositions. Now, and for 7 consecutive releases, he maintains a secure collaboration with the Filmharmonic Orchestra of Prague.
It’s famous that Christos Antoniou has a Bachelor in music composition from the London Faculty of Music and a Grasp in composition and orchestration, whereas amongst his academics was Adam Gorb, head of the composition division on the Royal Northern Faculty of Music. Along with composing Music, Spyridon Antoniou graduated with honors from the College of Superb Arts on the AA Portray Workshop underneath the academics of Dimitris Mytaras, Zacharias Arvanitis and Angelos Antonopoulos. Later he additionally studied Pictures within the division of Professor Manolis Babousis.
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