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The IndieFunda Project

The indiefunda project is a collaboration of independent artists around the globe, who want to create a platform where an independent artist will be able to have financial aid directly from his/hers audience. Check it out!

May Roosevelt

Influenced by the very reverend trinity of Bach, Björk and Klaus Nomi, May Roosevelt is an extraordinary thereminist, composer and producer with a sense for good, old-fashioned drama. Her classical arrangements will give you the shivers (or, at the very least, remind you of movies that gave you the shivers), with nods to early industrial or electronic music and a passing resemblance to the god of thunder behind a theremin. Like many people, she got into music via her first Casio synth as a kid. If her knack for otherworldly sounds is anything to go by, that Casio must have been possessed by some very restless and musical ghosts.

2L8

2L8 is the project of K the Clown and a team of collaborators and musicians based in Thessaloniki, North Greece.

Berlin Brides

The Berlin Brides’ sound is a hybrid of electro, punk and powerpop. They were founded on September 2007 by Natasha Giannaraki, lyricist and lead singer and Marilena Orfanou, keybordist and composer who gives the band its electronic identity. Conceived in Berlin and formed in Greece, they are reinventing the music scene in Athens with their caustic lyrics and their combustible live performances.

Electric Litany

The story of the band started, when Alexandros and Richard met in London. Alexandros moved from Corfu to London, while Richard was leaving Devonshire for London in search of forming a band of his own. Duane was the last member to join the band, since he was found by Alex and Richard through an ad. Their first rehearsals were taking place in some pretty unusual places, like abandoned and derelict buildings.

New Zero God

New Zero God is a Greek punk/post punk rock band formed in 2006. Their popularity in Greece may be due to the veteran musicians who make up the band; as most Greek rock fans were already familiar with Mike Pougounas and Averkios Hadjiantoniadis from The Flowers Of Romance, which is considered a legendary Greek gothic rock group.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Monika

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Monika (b. Λεμονιά Χριστοδούλου, 26 May 1986 & raised in
Karpenisi, Greece), is an Athens, Greece artist. At five, she started playing the piano & at ten bought her first guitar. Then later, she joined an orchestra in order to take saxophone lessons that lasted 5 years. She can also play some accordion and drums. She used to be a member of her brother’s band Serpentine where she did some vocals and played the electric guitar. A year later, she moved to Athens to study in the University (Department of Mathematics) and started recording some songs in her computer. At the same time, she became a member of Relevant Box where she played the saxophone and did backing vocals. In the summer of 2005, she recorded some stuff for My Wet Calvin and in February 2006 she recorded a saxophone piece for the band Menta. Her first single “Over the Hill” was released in early May 2008 and her debut album Avatar in the 19th of the same month by Archangel Music.
Her debut album quickly became critically acclaimed in Greece, while still is having it’s way of coming in the target area of listeners abroad Greece and becoming known.

Monika toured around Greece to support the release of Avatar with most of her shows being sold-out successes.
In May 12th, 2010 her second album Exit was released and she’s having her second tour, only this time to support Exit.
http://www.myspace.com/monikarides

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