Stockhausen / Ladopoulos/ Rakopoulos/ Amiris/ Andersen/ Héral

Markus Stockhausen: trumpet
Antonis Ladopoulos: saxophone
Vasilis Rakopoulos: guitar
Sami Amiris: piano
Arild Andersen: bass
Patrice Héral: percussion 

In 2010, Markus Stockhausen along with Antonis Ladopoulos, Vasilis Rakopoulos & Sami Amiris opened the Onassis Cultural Centre’s music season, doing so extramurally, at the Goethe Institut, because the OCC building on Syngrou Avenue had still to be inaugurated.
The combo performed a kaleidoscopic, multidimensional programme which began with Katolophyromai [“I lament so much"] the title of a musical fragment from the first stasimon of Euripides’ Orestes, and ended in an improvised sequences of phrases, rhythms and harmonies which defies classification. Theirs was a complex soundscape of extreme but homogenized breadth, ranging from antique chromatic tetrachords to attempts at a contemporary idiom melodic, human and free of everything that has not withstood the test of time.
This year, the group returns with two additional members, both of them leading lights on the contemporary music scene: the veteran bassist Arild Andersen, who helped make the term ‘European jazz’ meaningful, and the rising star, Patrice Héral, a drummer and percussionist whose extraordinary range of interests makes him extraordinarily sought after.