drums, piano, percussion, keys, midi, soundscapes, guitar

all music composed by dimitris tasoudis except 'Afro Blue' (composed by Mongo Santamaria) and 'Μουσικό Σχολείο Κατερίνης: επίσκεψη-ηχογράφηση στο στούντιο Cue'.

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Dimitris Tasoudis is currently a music teacher in secondary education, in Pieria, Greece.
He holds a BA in Musicology (focusing on analysis) from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
He holds degrees of Composition and Classical Percussion from the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki.
Also, a MA in Contemporary studies (department of Music, York, UK) combining perfomance of contemporary repertoire for percussion with composition as a reversed form of analysis.

As a drummer, and after attending lessons with Mr Nikos Sidirokastritis, and various workshops, he performs and records with different ensembles (Magnanimus Trio, Modal 4, Duet).

As a composer, he worked with the ensemble ‘Prefabricated Quartet’ scoring for films. He now works on his own in this particular area (1st prize: http://koyinta.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3770&Itemid=29&lang=en).

He has also taught at the department of Music Studies ‘improvisation on percussion instruments’ and at the department of Film Studies (both departments belong to the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) ‘sound and music in films’.

In his compositions, as in his playing style, he tries to combine the clarity, finesse and demanding character of contemporary music with the spontaneity and freshness of improvised music, either jazz or free.

He is interested in the use of metaphor and metonymy in film music being a PhD student, supervised by Petros Vouvaris.


Useful links:
http://vimeo.com/58363241 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd_1jTu7a-Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOxbqEOWtjQ https://soundcloud.com/dimitris-tasoudis/p55sqroeb2lm http://www.youtube.com/user/dtasoudis/videos
http://magnanimustrio.com/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99996734@N05/10462231453/
http://magnanimustrio.com/halfnote/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoYNAGnfzok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPUe4iKOKLA





Giohanna Kosioni: tanbur, vocals
Eleftheria Daoultzi: kanun
Yiota Vergopoulou: ney
Mania Asimakopoulou: ud
Irini Koulourioti: percussion
Irini Papadatou: saz

Magnanimus Trio was formed back in 2010 in Thessaloniki, Greece. In their first album A Cue (2010) the band’s members, piano & ney player Christos Barbas, drummer & pianist Dimitris Tasoudis, bassist Pavlos Spyropoulos provide “a cue” of their existence, recording live a wholly-improvised hour of music balancing between contemporary minimalistic sound and melodic soundscapes diligently formed. In their second album Still Time (2012) they create a mixture of original compositions and improvisations that evoke cinematic auditions, introducing modal jazz elements, minute compositions & ballads for voice and kaval (wooden flute).

Their newest album No Time (2016 / AN Music) takes them a step further in defining their vision for the music of the trio: 13 original compositions where one will find, far away from chattering , precision and clarity in every note, the element of freedom from various different improvisational music worlds that connect south-european modality to mainstream music and two songs: one with lyrics borrowed from W. Shakespeare and one with original lyrics.

In No Time Magnanimus Trio carefully choose its sounds, blending seemingly different elements from minimalism, contemporary classical & jazz genres and sufi music, at times echoing the romantic narrations of Sigur Rós, E.S.T., Robert Wyatt, at others touching the monolithicity of Arvo Pärt, Stephan Micus or Steve Reich, and ultimately consolidating the sound of a inventive trio which resists easy categorization and based in the South of Europe refers to a universal sound.

The trio’s musicians collaborations include some of the best musicians in the field of world & jazz music: the late John Taylor, Erkan Oğur, Derya Turkan, Murat Aydemir, Ζohar Fresco Quartet, Ross Daly, Sokratis Sinopoulos, Zezo Olimpio and Efrén López amongst others.

Christos Barbas / piano, ney, kaval, vocals

Pavlos Spyropoulos / double bass

Dimitris Tasoudis / drums, piano, keys, marimba

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