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KritikoNiko

Original music influenced by Greek music

About Me

Thermo Kalosorisma,
My name is Nikos Petros Koulouris and I am of Greek (cretan) origin. Since my childhood I was interested in music. My father very often listened to traditional Greek music which later on brought me to feel this music as my natural. I started playing saxophone at the age of 15 and have been playing until now in many different groups. For 6 years I have been playing as a member of one from the biggest Czech pop groups called KRYSTOF , which has got tens of serious musical awards. I'm very proud of this group and consider it to be my main interest. Despite this nice and really interesting group I also play different styles (traditional Greek music) + sessions with Dj Forest that brought me to completely different field of music - experimental. During last 7 years I have been seriously interested in Greek traditions. I started to dance traditional dances and became a member of the world Greek association Lyceum of Greek Women (Lykion Ton Ellinidon) which has been trying to preserve old Greek traditions. Despite this fact I also started to play for the dancers as a clarinetist. Last 2 years I have dedicated to compose and arrange my own songs that are deeply influenced by Greek traditions. These songs bear traces of the old Hellenic culture - the name of this group is NISOS and you can find videos and somer recordings on this page. Just recently I've been cooperationg with great guitar player Dimitris Neonakis who is great composer with the big sence of melody and harmony.For booking please contact me at [email protected]



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Member Since: 9/18/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/kritikoniko
Band Members: Sofia Prusali - voice
Nikos Petros Koulouris - clarinet, ney
Tomas Rossi - arabic and cuban perkussions, kaval, ney
Milan Bator - cretan Laouto, oud
Vaggelis Vasilakos - bouzouki, sazi
Premek Mixa - double bass
special guests: Ariel Qasis: - qanun , Zacharias Spyridakis: - lyra
Influences: Traditional music from Greece, Crete, Asia minor and Middle east. Listening and playing nice music from these places.

Sounds Like: Ross Daly, Mercan Dede, Chainides, Chronis Aidonidis, Psarantinos, Ksyluris, Karathanasi, Palaiina Seferia, Christos Tsiamoulis, Djivan Gasparyan, Artom Tuncboyacian, Salif Keita, Youssou N'dour, Richard Bona, bijan chemirani, Stephan Micus, Yair Dalal, Yasmin Levy, Sivan Perwer and many other who are rising up their traditions....purity of traditional sound.

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Type of Label: None

My Blog

NISOS on radio KDVS

Nisos on the radio KDVS -here is the link of the streamhttp://169.237.101.62/archives/Gil%20Medovoy%20-%20Cro ssing%20Continents%20%28128kbps%29.m3uor you can go to the pages of this show:http://www.kd...
Posted by KritikoNiko on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:55:00 PST