Listen

The best way to listen is just to go to the bandcamp page, There is a lot of CD's compilations/ there!
https://onemansnoise.bandcamp.com/

But here is some more! Enjoy :)

Voice and Lute







with Μπουλούκι



with Ντούντηδες







from Forty Rules to Make a Sound CD -
with Michalis Paraskakis






From BaboDona CD - with Aris and Vincent

At Victoria Coach Station

Yesterday evening I was at Victoria Coach station, waiting for the bus from London to The Hague.There were a lot of people running around like crazy to catch their buses and be on time. I was sitting in a corner eating when I noticed a guy who was waiting for his bus too, holding an instrument that had the shape of a wooden box. I looked at it closer and it seemed to me like a kind of kalimba or mbira. It was also really nicely drawn. I just got drawn by this guy and his instrument and got up and stood next to him. In a few seconds, we looked at each other and we started talking.

Eventually we sat down together talked and played. He was such a sweet and calm guy. It is amazing how in twenty minutes you can learn such important lessons about music (and not only). By seeing his hands play and listening carefully to his few words, I felt like one of these precious moments when your mind is being opened to a totally new perspective and knowledge.
Maybe all what education and school should be about.

How do I learn to play the rhythm you are playing?
Teach me.

Or maybe I have to listen to it myself. Listen it in my own way, with my own imagination and then play it. Every person has their own.

And don't hurry. Rest your hand on the instrument and when you feel is the moment to add the next step, do it.

The movements and sound were all so soft, contrasting all the noise and the people in the station. Maybe because of all these we tend to forget about basic and simple sides of music.

Thanks Kallon, hope to see you soon. :)

Check out the new album of Bad Bid!

Today's post is about a really nice band from Athens that I used to play with.

...and this is   B a d   B i d !

Probably  if you are my friend you will know them.

Well the first album of Bad Bid is finally out. The recordings started on the summer of 2011 when I was still in Greece and finished a couple months ago.

It is a music with lots of elements and energy. A lot of instruments too! Bass, drums, guitar, 2 violins, saxophone, trumpet, mellodica and lots of vocals!

The album was recorded by Alex and mastered by George from Artracks studios.

Click here to listen to some of the tracks and here to see some nice videos they made lately.

If you want a cd, mail them at  bigbadbidband@gmail.com

Give this music some love and you will get it back :)

See you,
Dimitris

Can You Hear The Sounds?

This is our second project with Vasilis Papageorgiou and this time was his initiative.
It is a 20 page draw-book accompanied with a 20min track.
25 handmade copies and stamped cd's.

You can download the track by following this link.
Or listen to it here.




You can visit Vasilis's blog and contact him if you want a copy.

Cheers!

Schiphol at Night

I think I would like to share some stories
or experiences once in a while.
Maybe mostly stories related to music.

Here's the first one.
It happened this summer when I was
going to fly from Amsterdam to Athens.

I had my nice old classical guitar with me and arrived
at Schiphol maybe around three or four in the morning.
I still had to wait a couple of hours for my flight.
There was a very interesting atmosphere, because this
is a HUGE place and on that moment it was really empty
and quiet.

So, I thought, I should find a nice spot and play some guitar.

I found a place, I sat there and played
really softly, improvising. The place was so
quiet that you could just listen to every little
sound and really feel the acoustics.

While I was playing a woman came and sat next to me.
Or maybe lied to to take a rest.
But I continued playing and we didn't talk.
(We were kind of with our backs turned to each other)
For twenty minutes - half an hour, I was playing and it
was so nice,just very quiet little sounds.

Then at some point the phone rang and she
left to find her friends I guess.

That's it. Just wanted to share, because
I felt that while playing there
in this space it was a very nice and
personal moment that I shared
with somebody but we never talked.

Should we?

I don't know...

some nice looking cds!

Hey!

One Mans Noise is nice, but two are better. And five even more.
At least that's how I am thinking these days.
So from now on and for some time you will be seeing a lot of collaborative projects here!

The first one is cd packaging with Vasilis whom I met
this year and lives in Rotterdam for the moment.

So we made the packaging of 30 copies of my last album to give
them to WORM, a very nice place with a music/movie/book shop,
nice events and really nice atmosphere. :)

All of them are different and there's a lot of love in there!
See some photos.

See more photos on Vasilis' blog  

Cheers,
Dimitris 

New CD "A Professional Result"

Finally, I am uploading my third CD after one year.It is called "A Professional Result" and was recorded in the summer of 2012 in Athens.

I think that it is quite different from what I've done before so I will say a couple words about it.

It is a mix of electronic - acoustic music and some guitar.
The main ingredient is various recordings that I made throughout the year in The Netherlands.
These could be sounds of machines, people, gatherings/ jams with friends, sound of the nature or ambience of various places.There is also a lot of guitar in the cd, this 10-year old classical guitar I have which was the first one that I ever layed a hand on and became obsessed with music.

While recording the cd and with the help of some friends, I made cd cases from carton and gave it to about 60 people so that everyone draws their own. Then I took them back and when the cd was finished we made a gathering and gave them out to friends who came.

Below there is a link to download the cd for free.
The download incldes two folders.
The first is the tracks of the CD in mp3 format.
The second one is some extra material concerning the CD.
This material is all the covers that people drew and a folder with some sounds that I used a lot in the CD in their initial form.

So click here to download.

This is an experiment for me, I can't even explain how I ended
up writing this music or if I will write stuff like this in the future.
But I feel it is much more closer to my thoughts and myself
than the previous ones. So It would be very nice to talk about it
with you. If you have some impression or thought send me an
email at  dimitrisathanas@hotmail.com

We are also working on an event to present this cd with some video art- installations,
more info about this soon :)

I am also putting up a couple songs here from bandcamp, but I would
suggest listening the cd as a  whole!











That's all folks!
Dimitris