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The AxArt people and groups are:
Chapitas: The boss is On Fire Performance troupe
LoAd"
"Depot" trio
Fernando Blanco Lopez
Achilleas Sourlas
Dimitris Koustas
and Dimitris Koufogiorgos

Chapitas performance troupe (London) is a London based performance collective of musicians, live and visual artists committed to create interactive improvised performances that explore and enjoy the rituals of social and creative presence. The work is based on the principal of free and equal contribution of all members insisting on open forms of creation and on the communication of different individuals and different disciplines: djs, sound collage, acoustic instruments, speech, video art and movement. Some of the people that have participated in the project are Andrea Maronjiu, Agelina Lykigianni, Achilleas Sourlas, Dimitris Koufogiorgos

LoAd” (London, Greece) has been the project name for Achilleas Sourlas, under which he has been making and performing experimental electronic music since 1996, first in Greece and now in the UK. In 2006 LoAd” was extended to an audio/visual duet through the collaboration with Dimitris Koufogiorgos.
Currently the main technique used is real time sound collages, by using DJ mixing software. These collages consist of a wide variety of sound sources, changing from electro acoustic music to African traditional, all of which are being processed and mixed, creating something new that can be combined with other elements like video projections, dance etc.
The visual aspect of the project consists of narrative and non-narrative sequences of moving and still images wandering in conceptual and experiential viewings of urban landscapes, human bodies and free movement.
The result can be anything from minutes to hours of ever - changing sound / vision scapes that are suitable for dance / party, or can function as a background music for art installations, cafés etc.
You can watch a small audio / visual collage here .

“DEPOT” trio (London) is a collaboration of musicians comitted to create high quality musical performances that explore a wide range of musical references and backgrounds. What unites the phenomenical diverse range of music that they cover is the innate ability of this music to create moments, during the performances, in which socially constructed limitations dissappear or decline. The result of this can be the most amazing fiestas. "Depot" cover a wide range of repertoir. One of their main musical references is the music of the Balkan Penisnsula where local traditions blend with gypsy sounds in unusual rhythms and distinctive modes achieving what can be seen as remains or expressions of dionysian rites or as a musical crossroad betwen the East and the West. Another aspect of their music refers to the musical legacy of the Middle and Near East played either with faith to its ability to offer rich musical experiences or fused with jazz tunes. Thus, another reference point to their music is jazz and latin jazz as unique ways of musical expression but also as a way of collaboration among music performers that insists in their equal contribution to the aesthtic outcome and on open forms of inprovised and spontaneous musical interractions.
You can listen to some of our music here: 1. Mantilatos_Hijaz
2. Floga
3. Epilogue
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Depot have just released a new CD
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