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Empty City Squares

About Me

An Architect by day, and multi-instrumentalist and songwriter by night, John Fotiadis (Yanni to his friends) has written and recorded music for film and theater and TV.

His new project "Empty City Squares", is a musical vehicle to showcase a series of songs written between 2005 and 2008. While Yanni's influences cover many musical genres, the music he has always loved first and foremost is British rock, primarily from the 60s and 70s. Strains of Badfinger, David Bowie, The Kinks, Elton John, The Who, The Stones, and of course the Beatles, to name a few, can be heard popping in and out of these songs.

A bunch of Yanni's archived material is available for your listening pleasure at: http://www.soundclick.com/johnfotiadis

You can also hear better quality audio of the songs posted here at: http://www.soundclick.com/emptycitysquares

An album is in the works and once complete, downloads will be available.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/9/2007
Band Website: www.soundclick.com/johnfotiadis
Band Members: John Fotiadis
Influences: Beatles first and foremost, "Exile"-era Stones, Zeppelin, Who, Supergrass, Blur, Oasis, Bowie, Italian pop, Blues, Film scores, Brian Wilson, John Barry, Ambient music, Elton John, Brian Eno, Baroque music, Glam rock...just about anything that spills out of a speaker and into my ear. I like artists that are always changing....Bowie, Beck, Damon Albarn (of Blur, Gorillaz and most recently, The Good, The Bad, and The Queen) as examples....they are "genre-less" and always surprising you with their next project, as it never sounds like the previous one.
Sounds Like: You Tell Me
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

GO Ahead....DOWNLOAD 'EM

Thought I would make these tracks available for free download for a limited time. I'm curious to see if anyone grabs them. More are coming...enjoy.
Posted by on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:33:00 GMT

Ancient Roadway

The latest out of the mixing bag....."Ancient Roadway"  is the documentation of a very bizarre and surreal experience I had one very late night driving back from Athens down towards Cape Sounion on th...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:55:00 GMT

Snow Is Falling

Like all the rest of these tracks this one has been bouncing around for a few years. Most of it was recorded end of '08 / beginning of '09.  I finally found enough time to do a mix and post it. Backin...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:32:00 GMT

New stuff cooking...plus new musical discoveries!!!!

That winter chill is in the air and summer feels like an abstract concept, some long lost dream...but the hot tubes of my amps and the glow of the electronic devices that are sparking away here at Yan...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:34:00 GMT

"God Of Mediocrity" getting airplay on Pop Garden Radio

A very special thanks to Adam Waltemire for giving "God of Mediocrity" some airplay on his great show, Pop Garden Radio. Check out Pop Garden Radio's myspace page HERE. And make sure to tune in every ...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:33:00 GMT

With Nothing To Lose....a definitive mix....

Slowly but surely progress is being made....today's harvest includes a decent mix which I consider definitive. It is newly posted. I can listen to this track over and over if only to hear my friend Ir...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:23:00 GMT

Poet With A Plan

A rough mix of the "Poet With A Plan" is up for your listening pleasure....I don't know why these MP3s sound so lo-fi here, but on soundclick they're crystal clear....oh well. Dig it anyway. It's what...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:41:00 GMT

First Fruits...

It only took a year.....out with the old stuff, in with the new. I've just posted some rough mixes of what will be the first tracks on this album of mine, "Empty City Squares".The drums on "Dirty Town...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:06:00 GMT

And recording has begun....!

7 of a possible 14 tracks ( I may decide to feature all of them or maybe drop 2 and keep them to a final 12 for the album), have been laid down in skeletal form on the new protools rig over here at "y...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:49:00 GMT

BACK with a new project and some old songs...

Back online. Back on MySpace. I've decided to set the stage for a project called "Empty City Squares" that I've been wanting to put together for some time. Those of you who visited my page before will...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:32:00 GMT