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Savvas Pavlidis

About Me

Eastern mediterranean rhythms and sounds meet pop songwriting and electronic ambiences.
Traditional instruments such as oud, saz, bedir and pontic lyra melt together with electronic sounds, electric guitar and sequencer programming.
This is kara deniz – the musical project that was initiated by Savvas Pavlidis, a greek-born and cologne-based musician and composer.
Through the collaboration with the berlin-based singer Johanna Fassbender and other musicians from greece and turkey including Thimios Atzakas (arabian oud), Pantelis Pavlidis (pontic lyra), Kemal Dinc (saz) and Maria Simoglou (bedir) a unique blend of the two musical worlds emerged.
The interaction between tradional elements, programmed beats and atmospheric sounds creates a new landscape of sound with its own musical language, still pointing to its roots: traditional greek and eastern mediterranean music.

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Member Since: 1/8/2006
Band Members: savvas pavlidis - programming, guitars, electronics, vocals
with:
johanna fassbender - vocals
thimios atzakas - oud
pantelis pavlidis - pontic lyra
maria simoglou - bendir, riqq, vocals

guests appearing on the album:
kemal dinç - saz, vocals
panagiotis zervoulias - clarinet

live:
loukas metaxas: percussion
christos barbas: kaval, ney


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Influences:Tik Tulum - Kara Deniz

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Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

music from thessaloniki at wdr - funkhaus europa

Today from 15. 00h - 16. 00h (german time) I will prese nt toget her with Milto s Oulio s some bands from salon iki in his radio show " radio polis " at funkh aus europ a ( colog ne) . liste n to ...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:44:00 GMT

interview in greek --city magazine

There is an interview in the city magazine thessaloniki. It is also on their website. But you should be able to read greek...;-)http://www.cityportal.gr/content/view/7537/657/
Posted by on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:22:00 GMT

kara deniz live in thessaloniki, athens, patra..

04. DEC '08 LIVE @ PARTIZAN, Thessaloniki06. DEC '08 LIVE @  Ÿ™šI›— £¤Ÿ‘, Patra07. DEC '08 LIVE @ ‘¥›‘I‘, Athens09. DEC '08 LIVE @ OTRO, Serres11. DEC' 08 LIVE @ ORIENT, ThessalonikiPARTIZAN: VAL...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:12:00 GMT

kara deniz album distributed by "play our music" in greece

The kara deniz album (two steps) is now available in greek record stores through "play our music". PlayOurMusic is a new record and distribution label that was formed in order to promote the greek ind...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:56:00 GMT

for those who live in or near thessaloniki...

...if you are interested in buying the kara deniz album, you can get it at stereodisc, aristotelous 4, tel. 2310-264.955
Posted by on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:53:00 GMT

kara deniz live@mylos,thessaloniki

kara deniz will play live on thursday, 22th of november at xylourgeio@mylos in thessaloniki, 21.30h presenting their new album "two steps"kara deniz:savvas pavlidis - electronics, guitar, vocalsjohann...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:33:00 GMT

kara deniz album released..

The kara deniz album is released now in germany by dmg/toca-records... 12 tracks - "two steps" is the title. You can order it through www.toca-records.de ...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:22:00 GMT

"underworld" included in the new east2west compilation from doublemoon records

so here's the first official release from kara deniz. "Underworld" is included on the new east2west compilation by doublemoon records called "Crossing continents". The album shows the spectrum of the ...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:54:00 GMT

videos by akiko sato

for our live gig in september in a cinema called filmhaus in cologne, akiko sato had composed videos and stills. I uploaded now the one for tik tulum. More to follow soon - (have to learn to cut in i...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:39:00 GMT