Granny Records

17/07/2024

12/07/2024

https://grannyrecords.bandcamp.com/

24/05/2024

Two new releases available to pre-order from our Bandcamp site.

Savvas Metaxas - New Relics II (CD, Granny 41)

Kenneth Kirschner - June , 7, 2013 (CD, Granny 42)

Follow links in comments and have a listen!
Enjoy

04/04/2024

Dear friends
Tomorrow is bandcamp friday!!

Please enjoy 20% off any purchase on bandcamp with the code "april24" (valid till midnight 7 April)

Thank you for the support!

31/01/2024

Sunday 21:00 | To Pikap

Granny Records presents
Eventless Plot | Francesco Covarino
Spyros Emmanouilidis

Eventless Plot

Eventless Plot were formed in 2002, in Thessaloniki. Borrowing elements from different genres and aesthetics to build their own hybrid of sound, while exhibiting great attention to sonic details in different forms of experimentalism. From free impro and noise, to new electronica, electroacoustic composition and jazz, their music remains always unconventional and contemporary. They use a variety of instruments, analog sources, field recordings and Max/MSP patches, while incorporating musical segments through collaborations with various musicians to realize their compositions.
Eventless Plot are working on sound design and composition for art installations, films and dance projects and have released in some of the most acknowledged labels around the world including Another Timbre (UK), Edition Wandelweiser (GER), Dinzu Artefacts (USA), Moving Furniture Contemporary Series (NL), Tsss Tapes (IT), Granny Records (GR), Dasa Tapes (GR), Aural Terrains (UK), Archive Officielle (CAN) and Never Anything Records (USA) among others. Moreover, they have performed live in many festivals and venues in Greece and abroad.

Francesco Covarino

F Covarino (1979), self taught drummer, I grew up loving Jim White from the Dirty Three and his free, lyric way of moving around the drums. For the first time I saw that there was another way of playing the drums, that you did not have to keep a steady beat and play loud but you could treat like a soft, delicate instrument, and you could play melodies with it.
I also admire musicians who make use of what they have close and go around looking for the tiny sounds and textures of everyday objects around them, without worrying about expensive hi tech gear.
Since 2019 I have been running a tape label called tsss tapes.

Spyros Emmanouilidis

Spyros Emmanouilidis is a sound artist based in Thessaloniki, Greece. He has been co-running Granny Records since 2008.

Fascinated by contemporary compositional techniques in electronic music, Spyros specializes in crafting intricate soundscapes characterized by dynamic variations in tension, rhythm, and texture. His innovative approach involves experimentation with diverse sound sources, incorporating elements such as field recordings, piano, vinyl samples, and analog synthesizers into his compositions.

Spyros has contributed with his music to various performances, including those at the Mediterranea 17 Young Artists Biennale in Milan, the 4th Biennale and the Dimitria Festival in Thessaloniki. Notably, he has released a solo album and a collaborative project with Savvas Metaxas on Granny Records. In December 2023, Spyros took part in the residency program organized by 901 Editions, showcasing his commitment to artistic exploration.

18/01/2024

Eventless Plot - After the rain

Pre - order now
https://grannyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/after-the-rain
Releases February 1

Eventless plot : organ, piano, percussion (sound plates, vibraphone, objects), field recordings, modular synth

Composed & Recorded by Eventless plot (January – September 2022)
Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12Kmastering
Design & Artwork by Yorgos Vourlidas
Edition of 100 copies | cd | granny 40

15/12/2023

Please enjoy 20% off any purchase on bandcamp with the code "xmas2023" (valid till midnight Dec 31)

Many thanks to all the artists who trusted us to release their music.
Thank you all for the support and best wishes for 2024!

Granny records 2023

Giovanni Di Domenico - Autothysis (Granny 39, cd 100 copies)
Deli Kuvveti - The city spoke to me (Granny 38, cassette 60 copies)
France Jobin - A sequence of moments in time (Granny 37, cassette 80 copies)
RETE - Aκινησία (Granny 36, lathe cut 12' vinyl)

All the best

25/11/2023

We are at SPRINT Milano , in beautiful company ( side by side with Coherent States ) ! For our friends in Milan, come and say hi !

02/11/2023

Tomorrow is bandcamp friday!!
Please enjoy 20% off any purchase on bandcamp with the code "nov23" (valid till midnight 5 November)

Thank you for the support!

22/10/2023

We would like to say a huge thank you to all, for coming to our showcase. A big thank you to Eleni Ikoniadou, Viki Steiri, Fabio Perletta, Giovanni di Domenico, Yorgos Axiotis, Efthimis Theodosis for accompanying us to this experience, and of course to Dimitis, Foteini and Aggeliki for making us feel like home at Κέντρο Ελέγχου Τηλεοράσεων.

19/10/2023

Granny Records Showcase in Athens | Κέντρο Ελέγχου Τηλεοράσεων | 20-21 October

Free piece of tape | live performance | Saturday 21 October

Free Piece of Tape (George Axiotis aka Turbo Teeth & Efthimis Theodosis aka Bill Anagnos) were created in Athens in 2001 initiating a sound process, through which they developed a common conscious towards sound. Their primary interest lies in exploring the boundaries of real-time audio performance and at the same time articulating a musical language ranging from freeform drone compositions to dense multi-layered cut-ups while simultaneously projecting their own take on to a psych-dub context.

Their two major musical practices include free-improv and electroacoustic techniques using self-built objects/instruments as can be found in "Two Fields and a Snowflake" (Kukuruku Recordings, 2010), “Springer” (Thalamos, 2016), and more straight forward electronic compositions utilizing fluctuated rhythmic structures like the self-titled release “Free Piece of Tape” (Granny Records, 2011).

They have appeared in numerous live acts in almost every possible condition and occasion, recently they keep a standard of one live appearance per year.

18/10/2023

Granny Records Showcase in Athens | Κέντρο Ελέγχου Τηλεοράσεων | 20-21 October

Giovanni Di Domenico | live performance | Saturday 21 October

Giovanni Di Domenico, pianist, was born in Rome on the 20th July 1977. Following his father’s consecutive assignments as a civil engineer he actually lived out his first decade in Africa – until he was five in Libya, from then until his eight anniversary in the Cameroons and until ten in Algeria. Musically self-taught until the age of 24, when he finally enrolled in Royal Conservatory in Den Haag, Holland (Koninklijke Conservatorium, 2001-2006) – majoring in ‘jazz piano’. He aspired to develop an an encyclopedic technique, with rhythm, harmony and tone informed by non-western traditions yet equally sensitive to Debussy’s “Préludes”, Luciano Berio’s “Sequenzas”, to the ‘ambi-ideation’ heard in Borah Bergman’s Soul Note recordings, Cecil Taylor’s polissemic density, Paul Bley’s bruised transparency and of course, the most radical manifestations stemming from the underworld of pop music, invariably tied together by his own original praxis. He currently lives in Brussels.

16/10/2023

Granny Records Showcase in Athens | Κέντρο Ελέγχου Τηλεοράσεων | 20-21 October

Spyros Emmanouilidis | live performance | Saturday 21 October

Spyros Emmanouilidis is a sound artist based in Thessaloniki, Greece.
He is interested in modern compositional methods of electronic music, aiming to create multi-layered soundscapes that vary in tension, rhythm and texture.
He experiments with a variety of different sound sources such as field recordings, piano, samples and analogue sources.
Since 2008, he is co-running Granny Records

13/10/2023

Granny Records Showcase in Athens | Κέντρο Ελέγχου Τηλεοράσεων | 20-21 October

Eleni Ikon (Electra Cosmos) / Viki Steiri / Savvas Metaxas | live performance | Friday 20 October

Eleni Ikoniadou is a media artist, writer and educator specialising in digital and sonic arts. She runs Fugitive Voices, a series of conversations with guest artists and theorists for the Royal College of Art and is resident host on stegi.radio. She is founder and co-editor of the Media Philosophy Series (Rowman & Littlefield), co- editor of Unsound: Undead (Urbanomic, 2019), and author of The Rhythmic Event: Art, Media and the Sonic (MIT Press, 2014). Eleni has exhibited, performed, and presented work at, among others, the Institute of Contemporary Arts London, CTM Berlin, Barbican Centre, TATE Britain and Modern, Nottingham Contemporary, Arebyte gallery, Spike Island Bristol, MUTEK Montreal, Loop Berlin, Unsound Krakow, and MIRA Barcelona.

Viki Steiri is a composer, cellist and pianist. Born in Greece, she moved to London in 2005 and is based in Athens since 2021. She has written music for installations, performance, video art and film. She is also a member of the improvised music/art group Ectopia, and has recently collaborated with Eleni Ikoniadou on a number of projects including the LP Future Chorus. Her debut LP Balm will be released in 2024.

Other collaborators include Turner prize winner Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Turner Prize nominee Monster Chetwynd and visual artists Shezad Dawood, Zoe Williams, Urara Tsuchiya and Dorine Van Meel; Wysing Arts Centre (Ectopia residency and LP), film collective Sharna Pax, and musicians Dario Papavassiliou, Design A Wave, Adam Sherry (A Dead Forest Index) and Patchfinder. In the past she has co-hosted a radio show at NTS with Chloe Frieda (Alien Jams) and performed with the Eddie Prevost free improvisation workshop.

She has performed in the UK, Europe and the U.S. in festivals and venues for innovative arts, including the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Cafe OTO, Hayward Gallery, David Roberts Art Foundation (London); Sound Quests (Turin), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin); Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art (Copenhagen); Le Guess Who? (Utrecht); Glasgow International; Wysing Festival (Cambridge); New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York); Le Lac (Brussels); La Générale en manufacture (Paris); Fundação Manuel Antonio Da Mota (Porto), and others.

Savvas Metaxas is a musician and sound artist who works in the fields of experimental music, field recordings, modular synthesis. Counting more that 15 releases among vinyls, Cd’s and cassettes, his music has been released in multiple labels such as LINE, Suerpang, Granny Records, Orila, Glistening Examples, More Mars, Cronica, Phinery, Flaming Pines, Coherent States, Falt and has performed in numerous concerts hosted in experimental art spaces, museums, galleries and venues.
In 2008 he co-founded the Granny Records label, focusing in publishing works by contemporary electronic musicians, moving in the range of free improvisation, noise, electroacoustic composition and contemporary electronica. Along with the operation of the label, he co-organized and co-curated events in various spaces in Thessaloniki inviting numerous European and Greek artists.
His other works contain the creation and composition of sound for installations and site- specific performances as well as music for short movies and contemporary dance.

10/10/2023

Granny Records Showcase in Athens | Κέντρο Ελέγχου Τηλεοράσεων | 20-21 October

Eventless Plot | live performance | Friday 20 October

Eventless Plot were formed in 2002, in Thessaloniki. Borrowing elements from different genres and aesthetics to build their own hybrid of sound, while exhibiting great attention to sonic details in different forms of experimentalism. From free impro and noise, to new electronica, electroacoustic composition and jazz, their music remains always unconventional and contemporary. They use a variety of instruments, analog sources, field recordings and Max/MSP patches, while incorporating musical segments through collaborations with various musicians to realize their compositions.

Eventless Plot are working on sound design and composition for art installations, films and dance projects and have released in some of the most acknowledged labels around the world including Another Timbre (UK), Edition Wandelweiser (GER), Dinzu Artefacts (USA), Moving Furniture Contemporary Series (NL), Tsss Tapes (IT), Granny Records (GR), Dasa Tapes (GR), Aural Terrains (UK), Archive Officielle (CAN) and Never Anything Records (USA) among others. Moreover, they have performed live in many festivals and venues in Greece and abroad.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1052610502840428/1052610509507094/

09/10/2023

Granny Records Showcase in Athens | Κέντρο Ελέγχου Τηλεοράσεων | 20-21 October

Fabio Perletta | live performance | Friday 20 October

Fabio Perletta is a sound artist, professor and curator living and working in Italy. In his work, he explores the tensions and equilibriums that coexist between presence and space, silence and noise, focus and time perception. He seeks to create expanded experiences in which he unveils the complexity, multiplicity, and transient nature of auditory realities, fostering their entanglement and divergence within the same vocabulary.

His work encompasses recorded compositions, performances, site-specific installations, text scores, online projects and participative actions, appearing worldwide at festivals and art galleries like A×S Festival (Pasadena), Human Resources (Los Angeles), BlueProject Foundation (Barcelona), Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona), Pollinaria (Civitella Casanova), El MAMM (Medellín), Ultima Festival (Oslo), Ryosokuin Temple (Kyoto), MoMA (Wakayama), Café OTO (London), Standards (Milan), roBOt Festival (Bologna), and Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome), among others.

Perletta’s solo and collaborative recordings are documented on Room40, LINE, Dragon’s Eye Recordings, Granny Records, Superpang, aufabwegen, Dinzu Artefacts, and his own imprint 901 Editions.

Alongside artist Davide Luciani, he runs the interdisciplinary Mote Studio in Berlin.
He is currently a professor of sound design at ISIA University in Pescara, Italy.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1052610502840428/1052610509507094

07/10/2023

20-21 / 10 / 2023
Granny Records showcase at Κέντρο Ελέγχου Τηλεοράσεων.
More info soon!

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Η Granny Records είναι ένα ανεξάρτητο μουσικό label με έδρα τη Θεσσαλονίκη.

05/10/2023

Dear friends,

Tomorrow is bandcamp friday and we have an upcoming album by Giovanni Di Domenico.
Great album, make sure you give it a go!

grannyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/autothysis