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No Man's Land

HOME IN THE SKY OUT NOW!!!!!!

About Me


A brief history of No Man's Land past, present & future:

Formed in the deep south of Europe, Athens, Greece, sometime in the late eighties, took their name from a Syd Barrett song, rode the wave of neo-psychedelia & paisley underground, got an LP ("Zalion") and an EP ("The Reality Trip") - both critically acclaimed and still much sought-after - out on small indie labels, some songs in compilations of same, got compared to Jefferson Airplane (Evi H., the female singer, left to form her own band, Echo Tattoo, so those comparisons stopped) played hundreds of gigs in Greece and some festivals around Europe, continued well into the nineties, called it a day for the time being.

Came a day a couple of years after the beginning of the new millennium when things got hot, new members came and went, some stayed, the music continued to flow, resumed gigging, wrote new songs & gave some old ones a workout, recorded a demo, the gigs went on and so did the music.

Avoiding pigeon holes and bandwagons at all costs, grudgingly accepting the inevitability of labels, trying to keep them to a minimum (e.g. "rock", "alternative"), cherishing and respecting while at the same time lovingly desecrating their influences, embracing paradox as an underlying structure of existence, stubbornly positive and positively open-minded - or at least trying to be.

Psychedelia, avant-rock, space funk (ah! more labels - but these ones bestowed upon them by others), whatever, traditional or nebulous song structures, order out of chaos and vice versa, if there's music to be tapped and transformed, No Man's Land will cheerfully assume the role of the medium.

At the moment promoting the new album "Home in the Sky", working on new material, continuing gigging, invoking more music, flowing with it.


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Member Since: 6/18/2006
Band Members: Vassilis Athanassiades (vox, guitar) Jorge Papageorgiades (bass, vox) Chris Silver Triantafillopoulos (drums) George Pavlis Fuestenberg (trumpet)with:Tina Psalida (violin, vox), George Nikas (drums), Chris Avramoudas (2005-2007: keys, trumpet, programming) George Tzivas (percussion) Stavros Parginos (cello), George Dimakis (keys), Michalis Vassiliou (keys)
Influences:

Words we read, sights we see, dreams we dream, music we listen to.

Among others:

Van der Graaf Generator, Miles Davis, Radio Birdman, Sun Ra, Thin White Rope, Magazine, Parliament/Funkadelic, Horace Silver, Nick Drake, Györgi Ligeti, Sunnyboys, Charles Mingus, Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, Can, Television, Manos Hadjidakis, Incredible String Band, Panos Koutroubousis, King Crimson, Captain Beefheart, Neil Young, Radiohead, East of Eden, Terry Gilliam, The Rain Parade, The Waterboys, Yannis Skarimbas, John Tsaoussis, Bill Evans, Tim Buckley, Ralph Towner, The Byrds, Van Morrison, Philip K. Dick, Cordwainer Smith, J.G. Ballard, Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, Paul Auster, Jorge Luis Borges, The Flaming Lips, Stanley Kubrick, Rene Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico, TV On The Radio, Monty Python.


Sounds Like: Lots of scattershot items salvaged from different universes and appropriated into our own as we see fit.
Record Label: ANAZITISI Records
Type of Label: Indie

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WHERE TO BUY "HOME IN THE SKY"

  1) Fnac -The Mall Athens, 35, Andrea Papandreou,  Maroussi 2) Fnac - Glyfada 4. S.Karagiorga & Lazaraki, Glyfada 3) Public 1, Karageorgi Servias, Syntagma Sq. (also at Public at the ...
Posted by No Man's Land on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:03:00 PST

"HOME IN THE SKY" OUT!

About time! It's finally out on cd & limited edition blue vinyl on Anazitisi Records, (www.myspace.com/anazitisirecords   www.anazitisirecords.com)  an ultra-eclectic Athenian lab...
Posted by No Man's Land on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:59:00 PST

miracle

"A working band is a miracle of everyday life." Thomas Pynchon...
Posted by No Man's Land on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:49:00 PST