Rippled

Electric guitar live improvisation, treated on the spot.

Shards

A little guitar to try and shake off the darkness. Trying to look deeper.

The Hidden Call

one old favourite Irish melody given the guitar treatment on St. Patrick's day

Sidh beag agus sidh mór

a brief sketch in isolation, iPad playing straight into the Octatrack and then uploading the result, no computer involved hence the New Old Skool tag
exercises in portability, I guess

The Wide Grey Line

A tribute to the one and only Kostas Gouzgounis. Dialogue taken from the 1965 Greek cult film Η ΛΕΩΦΟΡΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΘΑΝΑΤΟΥ (Death Avenue).

Death Avenue • Η ΛΕΩΦΟΡΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΘΑΝΑΤΟΥ

From the documerntary on Theatro Horos, the Golfo 2.3 beta production and the adventures of the Clownskis

The blessed ride

live from deepest Sipovaara, one of my Lounge Lizards favourites on solo guitar

it could have been very, very beautiful

bodies collide in outer space - from the vault, music for the SineQuaNon dance company at the Athens festival, July 2007

Sparks Fly

from the vault, music for the SineQuaNon Dance Company at the Athens festival, July 2007
a world with a little grey light

First Tremolo

retro live guitarscape, the jittering sky

Keltainen Huone

excerpts from the music to be performed in Naava, Pyhätunturi on 6.8.2014 - all sounds come from treated local field recordings and sonograms / wavetables constructed from pictures taken around Eastern Lapland.

Naava Taster

From the pieces performed live in Naava on August 6, 2014 - a series of soundscapes constructed from treated field recordings and sonograms I made wandering around Eastern Lapland last spring. The pieces are named according to their location - aural postcards from remote landscapes above the Arctic Circle.

Sompio

Another piece performed live in Naava on August 6, 2014 - a series of soundscapes constructed from treated field recordings and sonograms I made wandering around Eastern Lapland last spring. The pieces are named according to the location of the field recordings that gave their source material - aural postcards from remote landscapes above the Arctic Circle.

Sokanaapa

One guitar improvisation over a drone, dedicated to the memory of the late, great Tom Verlaine.

Spirit Departed

slide guitar time, a tribute to the late, great Lowell George

China White

1744 Cloud

A mildly spiced, slightly jazzy version of Silent Night - Happy Christmas everyone!

Jouluyö

an ambient dubscape from the Cloudy Summer Waves ep

Waves Goodbye

a short snippet from a live guitar performance in Kuusamo, Finland on 20.01.2012 - playing the Aalto with a Fender Jaguar

Kuusamo darkness

a little gift for the April party back at the old place, featuring Octatrack Övning Nummer Ett, one shell pink jazzmaster guitar and the unbeatable pairing of Ella and N.F.using the Greek language, enjoy!

Smoke and electric light

getting into the path after the end of the road, who knows what could be out there

Orponen

The intro of the revered Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters given a light treatment.  There is more to the title than the painting by Max Ernst. Tip of the iceberg.

The Return Of The Beautiful Gardener

reflections, ten seconds before sunset and one moody guitar soundscape

Youth Dead Spring

a little guitar soundscape made on the spot as the snow gently fell outside

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slow the snow falls

It has been twenty years to the day I bought my treasured Access Virus - the A version - so I sat down and put this together only using sounds from it. The years have gone so no need to use a keyboard this time, it was all triggered using a guitar.

Virus Reawakening

when, all of a sudden, light returns and you realize you're still alive

My Northern Daylight

dedicated to my quarantined friends all over Europe, this is a remix based on a piece by the Greek composer Mihalis Grigoriou

Another sunset, way beyond the barracks

Útvarp 4

Looking up at the sky, after the storm. Hope and loss.
Closing sequence from the documentary ¨Jatkosodan vuodet Itä-Lapissa¨, a moving documentary on World War II in Eastern Lapland between 1941 and 1944. Available on DVD.



Yesterday no more

George Bandoek Apostolakis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, long enough ago to have first-hand knowledge and be comfortable in numerous vintage styles. Also long enough ago to have enough time to experiment in improvisation and electronics, indulge in his urge to explore different sounds and develop a knack for unexpected sounds, structures and themes. A strong, idiosyncratic stage persona didn’t do any harm either. 


A mainstay of the Greek eighties indie scene, he made his recording debut with the indie-rock outfit Noise Promotion Company in 1986. Between 1988 and 1995 he was living and working in London. 


From 1996 to 2004 he was a member of Blues Wire, the leading Greek blues band. In addition he took part in numerous jazz and improvisation projects, from the fast-paced jazz collages of Mihalis Siganidis to the live improvised soundtracks of Sakis Papadimitriou. In 2002 he joined the band of the legendary Greek singer-songwriter Thanasis Papakonstantinou, helping to create what was to be hailed as a unique and ultimately successful fusion of modern rock and Greek roots.  At that time he also started releasing solo 3”cds in an idm-ambient style. He collaborated with theatre director Simos Kakalas and the Horos Theatre Company, writing the music for three versions of the modern Greek classic Golfo between 2004 and 2007 and also appearing as an actor in the Golfo 2.3 beta version. Since 2004 he has also collaborated with the SineQuaNon dance company, the leading Greek exponent of contemporary dance, both as a musician and sound designer (Secret Supper) and a composer and musician (Homo Hameno Hamini). The musical and literary escapades of Tabako, an unorthodox accordion, cello, electric guitar and electronics trio, must be always mentioned.


From 2007 he has been living in Finnish Lapland, working in music education and composing music for plays, performances and documentaries (Kaamosvalkeat, Sota - absurdi tragedia, Koettelemusten Kaupunki / A Town Called Trouble, 30+ Sisarta, Itä-Lapin Talvisota, Leipätehtaan Naiset, Itä-Lapin Jatkosota, Johtajan Kaappi) . A member of Pekka Kumpulainen ja Ystävät, his guitar and harmonica playing features on the band’s recordings as well as the soundtrack for the film Kultajoki/Goldfluss. A solo live guitar cd entitled Fugitive was released in 2011. He can be seen playing solo ambient sets, either north or well north of the Arctic Circle. 



He has performed live in many countries between Scotland and China.


Using power, feeling, humour and a disciplined indiscipline George is always searching for the sounds that make us feel things we were not even aware of.

George Bandoek Apostolakis

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