Balinese Beast

Balinese Beast is a duo project from Greece with George Axiotis and Ilan Manouach, working with electronics, home hacked-fi systems, samples, retired drum machines and the whole saxophone family. They have released several albums and split collaborations, among them the latest is in Tanzprocesz label along with Fusiller and a self-released split with Wham Jah.

Frans de Waard from “The Vital Weekly” wrote about their music:
"Quite wild music, which has its origins in the world of improvised music but leans towards noise. There is a fair amount of loud and distorted sounds, stemming from looped chunks of sound, feedback from microphones/saxophones and lo-fi electronics screaming about. But its not just a record of pure noise per se. Balinese Beast use the element of dynamics very well. Chopping up their sound, making them into a vibrant collage of sound, moving back and forth in the dynamic spectrum. Played with the energy of a punk band I'd say, screaming, loud, vicious, but entirely existing in the world of improvisation and noise. At times reminding me, no doubt because of the saxophone, of Borbetomagus. This band must be great in concert: on record they come across pretty well already".

They have performed extensively in Greece and also in Serbia, Romania, Hungary, Slovenia and France.