Sunday, October 7, 2018

GREECE: Paraskevas Kitsos-In Between The Eyes(2018)

Paraskevas Kitsos is a musician based in Athens, Greece .
He studied guitar,bass guitar and double bass and he has participated in numerous projects and records
His projects included Momo trio Moriconne 3 ,and his sextet.
Paraskevas's influences include many music idioms ,from jazz ,balkan music ,european jazz ,rock ,metal and electronica.

"In Between The Eyes "is the second personal album of bassist and composer Paraskevas Kitsos.Paraskevas is based in Athens ,Greece and
the six compositions of the album are originals ,the seventh is a cover by the great Sun Ra.Some of the best musicians of Greece's jazz scene appear on the record making the arrangements really unique .
The lineup with a drummer, bass , guitar, trumpet,sax ,piano,vibes and percussion gives to each tune a different perspective.. Through the concept of lyrical melodies and hard groovy bass lines Paraskevas creates a drawing energy that can be felt directly at his live shows and has been captured perfecty on this record.
credits

PERSONNEL:

Giannis Angelopoulos:drums
Giannis Pappagianoulis:percussion
Giannis Pappanastasiou:Alto saxophone
Vagelis Stefanopoulos:piano
Pantelis Stoikos :trumpet
Vagelis Paraskevaidis:vibes
Tasos Tsalapatis:el.guitar
Paraskevas Kitsos: bass guitar and double bass