STAGES A/LIVE returns to the Onassis Channel on YouTube with Naxatras at Akontisma on New Year’s Day
Online premiere: 01.01.2022 at 21:00
STAGES A/LIVE is back – its new season kicking off on New Year’s Day. Naxatras will be taking to the stage of the Akontisma cultural hub in Kavala on Saturday, January 1 and streamed across the world. The online stage that is the Onassis Channel on YouTube is bringing you yet more live sessions from Greece’s indie music stages.
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Fat grooves, dreamy melodies, heavy riffs, and trippy guitar solos are sending us all back to the ’70s. Naxatras – a psychedelic rock band from Thessaloniki that’s constantly experimenting with psych, progressive, blues, funk, stoner, and oriental music – are heading to the Akontisma multi-purpose events hub in Kavala to make us dance until dawn. Melding their music with a psychedelic video show, Naxatras will be ringing in the new year – in Kavala and on the Onassis Channel on YouTube – as only they know how.
Naxatras quickly attracted the attention of Greek heavy and psych scene fans, drawn in by the heavy riffs, addictive fat grooves, and dreamy ’70s melodies that together make up the distinctive sound of the band, rightly considered one of the best exponents of the Greek psych rock scene.
From Greece, Naxatras have reached the globe, touring dozens of music stages across Europe to grace everyone at their gigs with a truly magical experience. Everyone that is who likes their rock turned right up to ten.
Ten years have passed since their first live sessions in Thessaloniki. Six since the major success they enjoyed with the release of their first album. Such was the surge of their creativity that their self-titled full-length debut was recorded in just one day. And such was their faith in the ’70s psych credo that they took an entirely analogue approach to the recording process. Their next recording ventures – albums “II” (2016) and “III” (2018) – were similarly analogue and even more high-powered, with the latter being presented live one epic night at Gagarin 205, leading to their live album “Live Rituals at Gagarin 205”.
Naxatras quickly established themselves as a rising force in the Greek rock scene, a fact borne out by their ever-growing popularity and their prodigious output (five official releases in the space of three years), as well as by their incredibly tight live gigs, which have drawn audiences in their thousands to some of Europe’s best and most major venues, and to their appearances at such landmark festivals as Desertfest in Berlin and London, the O.Z.O.R.A. Festival in Hungary, the Lake on Fire Festival in Austria, and Dunajam on Sardinia.
Unexpected locations. Unexpected collaborations. Unexpected stages.
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Photo: Alexandros Avramidis
STAGES A/LIVE was launched to supported Greece’s indie music stages at a time when everything was shut. Stages are coming alive again, this time in some of Greece’s most unexpected locations. STAGES A/LIVE returns to places where important things have happened. We’re supporting the Greek music scene and its artists by creating a digital stage on the Onassis Foundation’s YouTube channel: yet another venue for bringing the local indie music scene to the world’s attention. STAGES A/LIVE second season is here, in ways most unexpected.
STAGES A/LIVE is being reborn – transformed into a completely different project. You can’t imagine what’s coming, so turn the volume up.On the outskirts of the Nea Karvali seaside settlement, a few kilometers away from the city of Kavala, lies a secluded hill continuously inhabited since the depths of antiquity. Akontisma is continuing its history-making course with a new logo that encapsulates an unending, ternary, vectorial motion, aiming to with connect major traditions and relics of the past with contemporary trends in alternative cultural travels. The modern-day driving force behind this motion is the traction and energy generated by a partnership between the experienced and storied the association “Stegi Politismou” of Nea Karvali and a young group of people with a contemporary creative vision who sensed and were attracted to the intense energy emanating from this place from the very first moment.
Concept & Curation: Christos Sarris
Production Coordinators: Smaragda Dogani, Elena Choremi
Production: Onassis Stegi
NAXATRAS
John Konstadelias: Guitar
Giannis Vagenas: Bass & Vocals
Konstantinos Charizanis: Drums
Pantelis Kargas: Keyboard
Dimitris Metaxakis: Sound Recording & Mixing
AKONTISMA
Venue Management: AKONTISMA
Hostel Management: The association “Stegi Politismou” of Nea Karvali
Venue Manager: Kaplanis Iosifidis
Artistic Curator: Yotis Posporeli
Venue Electrician: Andreas Papadopoulos
Local Production: Made of Stone Productions
Production Coordination: Yotis Posporeli
Line Producer: Takis Giannakopoulos
Production Assistant: Christos Papantsidis
Filming
Director – Camera: Christos Sarris
Director of Photography: Evan Maragkoudakis
Cameras: Dimitris Zivopoulos, Filippos Zamidis, Koralia Dogani
Drone: Orfeas Kalafatis
Video Crew Assistant: Andreas Markou
Recording: Themis Dimitrakopoulos
Editing/Rough Mix: Alexis Archontis
Mastering/Additional Edits: Greg Magos - Few Studios Athens
Monitor Technician: Dimitris Metaxakis
Stage Technicians: George Tachtsidis, Mimis Konstantinidis
Lighting Technician: Nikos “Lopez” Kechagias
Lighting Technician Assistant: Savvas Christou
Technical Support: Nikos Ntoulas
Editor: Tryfon Karatzinas
Colorist: Manthos Sardis
Photography: Alexandros Avramidis
Onassis Stegi
Technical Manager: Lefteris Karabilas
Technical Director & Project Support: Phil Hills
Lighting Technician: Antonis Kokkoris
Production Coordinators: Smaragda Dogani, Elena Choremi
Director of Culture: Afroditi Panagiotakou
Deputy Director of Culture: Dimitris Theodoropoulos
Group Communication & Content Manager: Dimitris Drivas
Campaign Manager: Kanella Psychogiou
Ηead of Content: Alexandros Roukoutakis
Social Media Manager: Vasilis Bibas
Copywriter: Margarita Grammatikou
Onassis Creative Studio
Head of Creative: Christos Sarris
Motion Graphics: Constantinos Chaidalis
Graphic Design: Georgia Leontara, Jilian Viglaki
Onassis Media Office: Vasso Vasilatou, Katerina Tamvaki
Legal Support
A.S. Papadimitriou & Partners Law Firm, Prodromos Tsiavos
