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Georgios Karamanolakis

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Composer of Electronic and Rock
A.k.a. Γεώργιος Καραμανωλάκης

Georgios Karamanolakis, is an experimental artist and composer-improviser who lives in Athens. He continuously ''activates'' a wide range of sounds that originate from monolithic drones and end up in noise walls mixed with elements of free jazz and musique concrete, using many -modified and not- analogue and digital synthesizers, field recordings and tapes, metallic objects and various electroacoustic techniques. He is influenced by the culture of mysticism, experimental films and the aesthetics of the past, which at any given age can become the future. He is the leading mind behind the Athenian cult, post-apocalyptic synth-punk band ΟΔΟΣ 55. He is a member of the underground urban intervention team OMIO, a group active in outdoor interventions in the urban fabric as well as in film recordings of hidden locations such as train cemeteries, underground tunnels, and war shelters. He has cooperated and composed albums with a wide range of experimental artists such as Japanese noise legend Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro) and musique concrete master Jean – Marc Foussat (their last work beeing the 12'' vynil lp Substunce Sans Scrupule ) amongst others. He is the producer of the Athens Inner City Broadcast program at the London Resonance FM experimental radio station.

Genres

• Electronic
• Rock
• Spoken Word

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