Artist: Nikolas Skordas & Stephanos Chytiris
Title: Invisible War
Cat Number: SLAMCD5101
Label, Year Released: SLAM Productions, 2020
Format: CD & all digital platforms
Barcode: 5028386714927
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Spiritual improvised free jazz from the Greek duo, saxophonist Nikolas Skordas and drummer Stephanos Chytiris.
Nikolas Skordas: soprano and tenor saxophones, tarogato, traditional flutes
Stephanos Chytiris: drums
“This is very much improvised, free music. Employing the tárogató illustrates that part of the music rooted in folk traditions, while the saxophones expose and explore the roots in jazz and studies in acoustics, form and surface texture or bumpiness. Throughout there are some stunning transitions executed with significant passion…Skordas’ tárogató has a strident, aggressive tone and accompanied by the incessant rattle of the backcloth created by Chytiris’ drumming, they sound ‘made for each other’, churning patterns gyrating around each other, each one satisfying an opening left by the other.” – Ken Cheetham, Jazz Views
“Seven pieces that go from folk to free. With hand percussion by Chytiris, Skordas produces folk flute sounds on “Empnoh” and American Indian lore during “Archetype”. His soprano snarls and growls on the spontaneous “Invisible War” while the two swing pretty hard on “Bones And Stones”.” – George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly
All compositions by Stephanos Chytiris & Nikolas Skordas
Recorded live in Shellac Studios
Mixed and mastered by Konstantinos Fragkopoulos 2018 – 2019 at Shellac Studios , Thessaloniki, Greece