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Burgundy Grapes

About Me

We started playing instrumental music together a little over a decade ago, at our homes in Athens, Greece. From the very beginning, we’ve never really discussed the music we make, want to make, or try to make, but the process has, in an inexplicable way, felt focused. We released a home-recorded, self-financed, self-titled debut album early in 2005 on Ektopia/Outlandish, a tiny and currently defunct Athenian label that was originally launched as a parallel venture of the Small Music Theatre, a local hub for various types of alternative music, domestic and imported. At present, the easiest way to find the first album is online through our website.We released a limited-edition and sparser-than-usual sounding EP, "Lagero", on the Triple Bath label in February, 2009. If anybody would like to order, visit www.triplebath.gr or www.myspace.com/triplebath. For a full listen or download go to www.archive.org/details/BurgundyGrapes-Lagero. It's all free there!!If or when in Athens, you should be able to find both releases downtown at VINYL MICROSTORE (34 Didotou st) (home of good people and good music!!).We've completed recording a second album...(April 2009)

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Member Since: 04/04/2007
Band Website: www.burgundygrapes.com
Band Members: George Kolyvas and Alexandros Miaoulis with accordionist Giorgos Tsiatsoulis, the most regular of various collaborators.
Influences: Evel Knievel!!
Sounds Like: COMMENTS/REVIEWS FOR SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM....................................................... .................................... The 'Burgundy Grapes' album is something different. This is really an album of beauty and grace. Pure in both concept and execution. Damn, I want to start a record label just so I can release this to the world and let other people hear it. I really love the way you combine classical minimalism with smooth brush strokes of Americana and Greek melancholy. Great stuff!! I am a fan. CHRIS ECKMAN (THE WALKABOUTS, CHRIS & CARLA) ............................................................ ............................................................ ......................................... The music is inner balanced, reflective and inspired...minimalistic...alternated and sounds like a movie on its own. The label mentions references of influences varying from post-rock, the minimalism of Yann Thiersen, road movie guitar music, alternative country and film music, with some inspiration of Ionian Islands-influenced balladry. All these aspects are somewhat vaguely there, in its own new and splendid blend. Recommended ! **** PSYCHEDELICFOLK.HOMESTEAD.COM (Belgium) ............................................................ ............................................................ ........................................... “It sounds sometimes almost like it was recorded underwater...giving it a closer thought, it kind of fits the music quite properly...there is something artisticly sad haunting it, maybe a product of the band’s tragic past, maybe not, but sure is that this feeling is strong, so really strong, and I would say this is the perfect soundtrack for the murky season that awaits us”. THE SHADOWS COMMENCE webzine (Sweden)
Record Label: Ektopia-Outlandish (debut album)/Triple Bath (EP)
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

New EP "Lagero" just released

Hi there, weve just released a limited-edition EP, Lagero, on theAthens-based Triple Bath label. It documents us recording mostly live,applying predominantly acoustic sounds, and arranging the mate...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:23:00 GMT

Live track with special guests added to the jukebox.

Hi friends, real and imaginary!! We've just added a live version of a song called "Even When You're Gone" from our first album to the Myspace jukebox. It's a faulty recording of a fulfilling version p...
Posted by on Fri, 09 May 2008 05:51:00 GMT