![]() ![]() How do you think that you have grown as an artist since you first started and what has remained the same about your music-making process? So we had all these great (not perfect, but unique) musicians and groups." In the past it was negative to sound like someone else, not only as a musician but also as a band. It matters only how well you can copy a style or a player. Hard thing when in the left side of our brain there’s nothing right and in the right, there’s nothing left!!! (Voodoo Drummer / Photo by Christoph Kaltenböck) My philosophy is the same in life too: find yourself and don’t accept him! To be able to listen, practice and play here in HELLaS (Hellas: Greece in Greek language), all the creative drive must come from the mind. Not technical or academic, for sure not imitating but full of feeling, passion and swing. How do you describe your sound, music philosophy? Where does your creative drive come from?Īfter 30+ years I believe that my sound is a mix of my influences with the common issue that how I sound is not how I want it!!! It’s just MY WAY. So, I missed some poetry and culture classes! Hard to say because with music I always travel through time, so in the 90s for example I was living mostly in the 50s – 60s and sometimes in the 20s … Then you have the everyday influences, a hot widow passing in front of you when the Elvin Jones concert in Lycabettus Hill starts. How has the Blues/Jazz and Rock music influenced your views of the world and the journeys you’ve taken? In this track, the God of wine, theatre, fertility, ritual insanity, the notorious libertine himself Dionysus, is just drunk as usual! Therein enters the Balafon master Mamadou Diabate from Burkina Faso (West Africa). V oodoo Drummer's new single "Drunk Dionysus" (October 2022), inspired by his ancestors, he has created an Afro-Dionysian experimental piece where weird Cello voices dance on top of a unique combination of odd rhythms, followed by a swinging version of a 9/8 Greek dance. These influences along with the ones by Moondog and Erik Satie dominate his work. ![]() ![]() It’s an experimental, instrumental version of “Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun” (by Roger Waters), where Tubular Bells, Cello and Musical Saw prevail! In this 7/8 rhythms the melody mixed with the theme of John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” while the Greek traditional tune “Milo mou kokkino” close the recording. Adrian Stout of The Tiger Lillies on Musical Saw. Voodoo Drummer recorded his debut solo single, a version of Pink Floyd's song in a 7/8 Greek Rhythm! (2022) feat. (Voodoo Drummer / Photo by Effie Traitse) His plays touring all over Europe, while his adaptation of ARISTOPHANES play “The Frogs” premiered in the National Opera of Greece. His composition based on quote by CHARLES BUKOWSKI has been recorded with American Blues legend LOUISIANA RED. He co-founded: Drumbone (Experimental duet), Deja Voodoo (New Orleans Music) and Opera Chaotique (Dionysian Cabaret). Has also recorded with members of Tuxedomoon (U.S.), Nouvelle Vague (FR) & Ojos de Brujo (SP). He performs with the cult British musical trio THE TIGER LILLIES and he had cooperated with significant artists like New Orleans singer MESCHYIA LAKE, Chicago Bluesman MICHAEL DOTSON and Greek singer-songwriter DIONYSIS SAVVOPOULOS. ![]() Greek musician Voodoo Drummer (aka Chris Koutsogiannis), for more than 30 years he has appeared at festivals, theaters and venues in 24 countries so far, such as Rouge Cabaret Festival (Paris), Villa Celimontana Jazz Fest (Rome), Herodion Theatre (Athens), Secret Garden Fest (U.K.) & Doha Jazz Festival (Qatar). "Music is Devil’s work so we must make a deal and set the controls…" ![]()
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