Addressing the process of coming to terms with being non-binary and genderfluid, Aphty Khéa’s new single ‘Company’ speaks candidly of social anxiety issues and paints a myriad of emotions through rich electronic music production. With previous support already secured for their upcoming EP Salt & Copper, including a Mixmag premiere and a Kaltblut feature, ‘Company’ further demonstrates Aphty’s cosmic soundworld and sincere songwriting – as well as the singer-producer’s sensibility for creating deeply affecting grooves.


Salt & Copper EP out 23 September 2022 via @squareglass
Stream / download: https://bfan.link/saltcopper
Music by Aphty Khéa, additional arrangement production by Rho

Company

Aphty Khéa EP

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Watch the video --> https://youtu.be/EE2iWXHqdcQ

All revenue will go to Refugee Accommodation Space City Plaza: https://best-hotel-in-europe.eu/

I've had, and continue to have, the immense joy in being a part of a very unique community that's built on solidarity, with the purpose of fighting intolerance and discrimination: Refugee Accommodation Space City Plaza - a beacon of hope in today's world. The track was inspired and kickstarted by the words of some of the youngest members of our community, recorded in our music classes during the summer of '17. This track is an ode to all the beautiful people that comprise our massive and diverse family, and the collective effort of everyone ever involved.

City Plaza is a self-organised housing project for homeless refugees in the centre of Athens accommodating 400 people, among them 180 children. It is entirely run on voluntary effort and is based on principles of self-organisation and autonomy, without any paid staff or public funding. It does not receive any funding from governments or NGOs, and depends entirely on the political support and practical solidarity from within Greece and abroad.

It costs the project €1 per day to cover the basic needs of a single refugee. Download the track here to support the project: https://aphtykhea.bandcamp.com/track/you-cant-evict-a-movement-city-plaza


Written & Produced by Aphty Khéa
Mixed by Rotem Haguel
Mastered by Nova Rahman

Main Voices by City Plaza kids
Additional Voices by City Plaza residents 
http://wearecityplaza.com/

Artwork by Neirin Best
http://neirinbest.com/
Instagram: @bestieboy_director

You Can't Evict A Movement (City Plaza)

Written & Produced by Aphty Khéa

feat. chatter by Jafar & Karim

Security

Written & Produced by Aphty Khéa

Strings by James Patrick Gavin

Mixed by Alessandro La Barbera

Mastered by Nova Rahman

Follow Aphty Khéa 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aphtykhea/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AphtyKhea/
Spotify:  https://sptfy.com/dm5O
Bandcamp: https://aphtykhea.bandcamp.com/


© Midnite Kanni

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The Bandcamp proceeds will be donated to the Legal Aid Team (Ομάδα Νομικής Βοήθειας), a solidarity collective of pro-bono activist lawyers based in Athens, who take on the court cases of detained protesters and victims of police repression. 
Support by purchasing the track and donating to the Legal Aid Team here: https://aphtykhea.bandcamp.com/track/alerta

Read more about their work in the articles below:
https://www.efsyn.gr/ellada/koinonia/...
https://www.efsyn.gr/ellada/koinonia/...
https://thepressproject.gr/praktikos-...
https://thepressproject.gr/i-omada-no...
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MUSIC
Aphty Khéa

EDITING
Aphty Khéa

MIXING
Alessandro La Barbera

MASTERING
Nova Rahman

BASS 
Max Mella

Follow Aphty Khéa 
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Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aphty_khea
Bandcamp: https://aphtykhea.bandcamp.com/

07/08/2020

Alerta

Greek-British electronic producer, singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist Aphty Khéa, innovatively blends warm, blissful, driving electronica with soulful melodies and captivating vocal harmonies. Supported on Radio 1 by Jamz Supernova on and Jaguar on BBC Introducing Dance, their latest EP 'Salt & Copper' received a warm welcome, with further features included on 6 Music with Lauren Laverne, DJ Mag, Mixmag, Beatport and KALTBLUT Magazine. 

Lyrically, Aphty bears tales of vulnerability with poetic messages, touching on subjects of queerness, gender identity, social anxiety, death, existentialism, sex, menstruation and radical self love. Using a mixture of chopped, pasted and edited samples, they surgically dissect every sound they make including synths, piano, percussion, whilst sampling every single vocal style that exists is their voice.  Moving between Berlin, London and Athens, Aphty Khéa builds a hard-hitting visual sound world, offering through their music videos a glimpse into their imagined sonic dreamland.

With a musical background that spans choir from the age of six, studying classical singing and piano at school, winning junior Eurovision in Greece, then swapping their home country for London at 18 to study contemporary singing and vocals at the ICMP Music Institute, and finally a BA degree in songwriting. Beyond composing, performing and producing their music Aphty, has participated in the radical left scenes of Greece, France and Germany standing in solidarity for dignified living in the LGBTQIA+,  anti-capitalist, antiracist, antifascist and antisexist scenes.

"She literally stopped me in my tracks" - Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC 6 Music 

"She hushed the room to awed silence and even at one point appeared to play a Theremin with her head." - MOJO Magazine

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