In the Loop

Love

Maturity

We are not betrayed by people but by our instincts about them.

Betrayal

Rediscovering our internal suns.

Mastered by Dimitris Giannaklis
Artwork by Evangelos Mayson

Phoenix

How we feel when a dream comes true? When a sale is closed? When we start afresh? When we get that promotion? When we give the first kiss? So many moments, so many highs. Any release after tension.

Mastered by Dimitris Giannaklis.

*The journey started with the PC1000.

Accomplishment

When mind complicates the matters of the heart.

Mastered by Dimitris Giannaklis
Cover design: Evangelos Mayson

In The Loop

Departure

Brothers

On any kind of loss and how it transform us.

Loss

Epiphany

A piece about peace at home.

Mastered by D. Giannaklis

I play, she reads

An experiment inspired by the book "Jazz Combinations" written by my teacher the late Markos Alexiou. A tribute. 
Home Essex piano recording via iwatch (!) Mastered by Dimitris Giannaklis

Improvisations

Trip

Back in 1999 and for 3 years I worked as an supervisor engineer, technical manager in a dairy plant. The production facilities are a noisy place. An experiment to describe my every day experience. Apologies, factories are not melodic places.

Mastered by D. Giannaklis

Factory

An improv about a cosmic journey.

Mastered by D. Giannaklis.

Cosmos

A bit of a Schoenberg-ian essence inspired by one of the Six little pieces for piano.

Mastered by D. Giannaklis.

Abstract

Bliss

To one of my favourite places in the world. Constantinople.

Polis

Devoted to my gratitude for the gift of music, the gift of life.

Mastered by Dimitris Giannaklis
Artwork by Evangelos Mayson

The Gift

Ode to the sea.

Mastered by Dimitris Giannaklis
Artwork by Evangelos Mayson

Waves

My days at the conservatory. VII I am glad I made your acquaintance.

Etude

On finding balance and joy again.

Mastered by Dimitris Giannaklis
Artwork by Evangelos Mayson

Blossom

To a white swan, my black swan for a fact.

Mastered by Dimitris Giannaklis
Artwork by Evangelos Mayson

Ballerina

A very personal piece on finding the courage to overcome tragedies in life.


Mastered by Dimitris Giannaklis
Artwork by Evangelos Mayson

Iphigenia

On fatherhood. Devoted to my father. Our parents are like trees from roots to leafs...

Father

Rage

Contemplation and wonder as I look out the window on a rainy day.

Mastered by Dimitris Giannaklis
Artwork by Evangelos Mayson

Rain

That kiss is gone forever but the melody plays on.

The Kiss

Who has the upper hand is the one who needs the other the least. To the stories I've never lived.

The Upper Hand

Before the Flight

Before The Flight

Hope

An experiment to describe the daily life's complexity.

The Experiment

Only Piano (Chris Matsikoudis) is a contemporary pianist / composer from Athens, Greece. His childhood influences were Classical composers and later listening to a lot of genres mainly Pop to Hard Rock, AOR, Progressive Metal and film scores. He early on fell in love with the piano sound through the works of Chopin, Lizst, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and later listening to pianists like Yanni, Giorgos Hatzinasios, Jordan Rudess, Keith Jarrett, David Foster, Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, Stavros Lantsias, Chick Corea, Glenn Gould, Bill Evans and Brad Mehldau. All of these pianists and later mentors shaped the Only Piano sound. He started as a self-taught musician at the age of 11 with a PC-1000 Portatone Yamaha Keyboard. He later joined the National Conservatory, starting classical piano but this path wasn’t for him. He briefly studied with notable teachers like Julie Troussa (Piano Technique) at Skalkota Conservatory, Manolis Papasifakis (Jazz Hanon) at NTUA musical dpt and Alkis Tsertsetis (Classical Theory and Harmony) at National Conservatory.  Later on he was devoted to Jazz, studying Modal Jazz Harmony with legendary Jazz pianist Marcos Alexiou and Jazz Technique and Standards with the famous Jazz pianist George Psychogios. Meanwhile he was performing live at several Venues in Greece with a variety of Greek bands: Acrobates (Greek Rock), Intravenous (Ethnic Jazz), Big Trouble (R&B) and gave sporadically some solo concerts. In 2011 he co-established the Fusion band "Nagare" which produced an LP with the homonym title in 2018. The band is still active and preparing their second album. Only Piano continues his musical research through various publications and online courses and he has already produced 3 LP’s: In the Loop (2021), Love (2022), Maturity (2023)

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