Lullographer by Mikhail.K

Xenon the film, based on Mikhail Karikis's homonymous opera, directed by David Bickerstaff from mikhail k on Vimeo.

The sound universe of Xenofonia has operatic dimensions and continues Mikhail’s exploration of the musical fault-line between middle-eastern and western sound. Commenting on his intentions behind the album, Mikhail explains that “until a century ago, all Greek music was folk music with irregular scales and no polyphony. Greece’s lengthy enslavement meant that Western musical and cultural developments of the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras left the country virtually untouched. I wanted Xenofonia to be about finding a contemporary Greek voice which wakes up to the ‘alien’ sounds of Europe; a voice which is at times angry, and split between the West and the East, the past and the present”.

Grecko - londyńska Bjork, ale... w męskim wydaniu!
Mikhail Karikis to Grek z pochodzenia i londyńczyk z wyboru. Studiował architekturę na UCL (London'd Global University), sztuki wizualne i muzykę w Slade School. Jest więc nie tylko muzykiem - śpiewa, komponuje, ale tworzy swój własny mikrokosmos, gdy w swych projektach wykorzystuje też video, sztukę performansu, fotografię i malarstwo. Wokalno-muzyczne skojarzenia z Bjork jak najbardziej na miejscu.


The sound universe of Xenofonia has operatic dimensions and continues Mikhail’s exploration of the musical fault-line between middle-eastern and western sound. Commenting on his intentions behind the album, Mikhail explains that “until a century ago, all Greek music was folk music with irregular scales and no polyphony. Greece’s lengthy enslavement meant that Western musical and cultural developments of the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras left the country virtually untouched. I wanted Xenofonia to be about finding a contemporary Greek voice which wakes up to the ‘alien’ sounds of Europe; a voice which is at times angry, and split between the West and the East, the past and the present”.