Pulsar Samothraki Art Festival 2024

WEDNESDAY 7/8/24
George Xylouris

George Xylouris presents the solo "Simá simá" with Markos Pinakoulakis handling sound and sound interventions. With his lute and his voice, he seeks traces along the path where both folk Cretan music and the avant-garde influences of independent expression have settled in his very personal language.

​George Xylouris was born in Anogia, a village in Crete with a long tradition of poetry, dance and music.From 1989 to 1997, he lived in Melbourne, where he formed the "Xylouris Ensemble" with musicians from different cultures.

Since 2013 he has been collaborating with the Australian drummer Jim White in the band "Xylouris White". They have performed with 'Godspeed You! Black Emperor', Marisa Anderson, Emmett Kelly, Bonnie Prince Billy, PJ Harvey, Bill Callahan, Jonathan Richman and others.

George Xylouris: lute
Markos Pinakoulakis: electronic effects

THURSDAY 8/8/24
Echo Tides

Echo Tides is a group of musicians that has been giving us original music since 2019.

Their sound … “ is born from our love for synthesizers and genres such as post punk but ends up tying in with its Greek verse and creating images that seem familiar but without stepping on specific forms. The melody and harmony have a primary role in the composition, while the noise and imperfections that capture the moment, are a component of the production, on the way to the goal: to be a warm embrace…. The lyrics deal with issues such as losses, frustrations, daily anxieties, the biggest anxieties, always through a path that seeks refuge in the relief of all the previous ones through the love that can exist between people.”

Giorgos Ligouriotis: Drums 
Kalliopi Mitropoulou: Vocals
Johnny Anagnostopoulos: Bass / Synthesizers  
Panagiotis Pantazis: Synthesizers / Sequencers / Vocals

FRIDAY 9/8/24
Nama Dama

Nama Dama is the stage name of Cypriot-Ukrainian artist Anastasia Demetriadou. Growing up in a multicultural family in Cyprus, she developed a massive interest for folk music and storytelling. After getting her degree in English language & translation and a short teaching career, she decided to abandon it and return to her true love, music and performance art. She created her solo act in 2019. Her first songs were performed with only a piano and a voice in small venues in Cyprus. After releasing her first EP µConfessions to my Songbird,Ά she decided to take up live looping and bring her one-woman act to the next level. Today, she uses her multitasking skills to create a new genre she calls Pagan Soul. An amalgam of pagan folk patterns and intense vocals, woven together with soul-pop vocals and electronic elements. Her performances have a colorful, ritualistic and theatrical character 

Nama Dama: vocals, keys, synth, percussion, recorder, looping 
Sound engineering: Lefteris Moumtzis 

Melentini & The Running Blue Orchestra

Songwriter of Greek and English songs, musician and performer, Melentini began her musical life at a very young age. 

​In 2012, Symeon Nikolaidis, musician and owner of the record label restless wind, suggested that she record her own album and thus explosions around the desert inside was created, her first English-language personal album which received rave reviews. 

In the same period, the Running Blue Orchestra was formed, the band that accompanies her in her live appearances. So far, she has signed the songs and music for the award-winning films "Afterlove" by Stergios Paschos, "Dog" by Gianna Americanou, in the short films "Sad Girl weekend", "Madonna f64.0" etc. 

In 2014 she settled in Berlin. Since then she has collaborated with established artists from different musical backgrounds including the British Steve Jansen of the legendary Japan. As a performer, she has a versatile concert presence with solo appearances but also with her band. Her musical style is characterized by a very personal style but also by the particularity of her voice while her sound varies with elements of avant garde, neo soul and atmospheric electronic pop.

Melentini: piano, vocals  
Vasilis Dokakis: el. guita, vocals 
Christos Vigos: drums, vocals 
Kostas Antoniou: el. bass
Sound engineering: Richard König

Saturday 10/8/24
Stringless

The female polyphonic group STRINGLESS  is closely interested in the sound produced by the human body and especially the human voice which replaces all the musical instruments. 

In their stage performances, STRINGLESS use music material from the Greek and non-Greek music tradition. ItΆs a musical journey from the mountains of Caucasus and Pindos to the soaring heights of the Black Sea and the Balkan peninsula. A significant part of their repertoire consists of songs that come from the multicultural background of the city where they live and perform, Thessaloniki, as well as operettas from the first decades of the 19th century, contemporary theatrical music, retro songs from the 30s and last but not least rebetiko, TsitsaniΆs songs and famous music motives from the Greek movies of the 60s. 

The music group STRINGLESS started performing in 2012 and since then,  they have appeared in various music stages, theatres, festivals and artistic events in Greece and abroad. 

The Stringless group are:
Albena Kutova / Elsa Mouratidou / Vassiliki Alexiou / Katerina Mavrofridou / Stella Yaltzi / Dorothea Mihail