Takoushis-Karapatakis Project

The Pharos Arts Foundation presents the Takoushis-Karapatakis Project.

Having recorded their third album, Colours of Another Sky, at The Shoe Factory last December, pianist Marios Takoushis and bassist Gabriel Karapatakis, in collaboration with the virtuoso lyrist from Crete Zacharias Spyridakis, will return to The Shoe Factory on Saturday 20 June 2015 / 8:30pm for a concert launching the album.

MARIOS TAKOUSHIS / Piano
GABRIEL KARAPATAKIS / Fretless Bass
ZACHARIAS SPYRIDAKIS / Cretan Lyra

Takoushis and Karapatakis’ new album, Colours of Another Sky, in collaboration with Zacharias Spyridakis, aspires to expand the musicians’ lyricism and unfold their expression into new areas of interaction. While their music is developed based on the fundamentals of jazz improvisation and individual self-expression, their original ideas and compositions are inspired by the Mediterranean music tradition, and consequently, new dynamics are formed by the co-existence of the piano, the fretless bass and the lyra.

Marios Takoushis and Gabriel Karapatakis have established a longstanding music relationship, which has given rise to the creative and innovative Takoushis-Karapatakis Project. In 2008, the two musicians formed the Takoushis/Karapatakis Quartet, and in 2010 they released their first album, Sympnoia. In May 2012, they participated in the 12th European Jazz Festival in Athens (as the "Takoushis/Karapatakis Project"), and in July 2012, they released their second album, Seven Miles East. They have given concerts and performed in numerous festivals in Cyprus and abroad. They appeared as a duo in Germany, having represented Cyprus at the EUNIC Jazz Festival in Berlin and being the first Cypriot group to be featured at the Ruhrfestspiele Reckinghausen a World Stage. Their discography has received great critical and audience acclaim all over the world, and their piece, Three Steps Above, has been included in the EBU’s jazz album, The Music of Europe. The Takoushis-Karapatakis Project has successfully unified two different music worlds: that of folk music, by blending traditional elements from Cyprus, Crete, Greece and Asia Minor, and that of jazz, by abiding by the jazz principles of interaction, improvisation and freedom of expression.

Tickets:
€15 / €10 Concessions & members of the Pharos Arts Foundation,
Box Office: Directly from the Foundation’s website www.pharosartsfoundation.org/ or Tel. 96669003 (Monday - Friday 10:00am-3:00pm)