IDIOMATIC TAPES
Fun… Just Fun playing Guitar, playinG Music, just pleasure having Fun, paying hommage with much Love to the eclectic, inspiring, Liberating art scene of the 80's that i Grew up with and Got me Electrified and Enlivened …
From the repetitive music of Philip Glass to the uplifting energy of trash metal and punk bands of the era via the colorful chords draped in mysterious smoothness of pop and new wave
Just Fun Just Freedom !
I use mainly Drum machines ,synths, guitars, synth basses .
IDIOMATIC TAPES became the name for this project, because it presents a music which is characteristic of the chosen period of 1980/1990 ,as during this time my musical Grammar was formed listening to , mainly cassette tapes of diverse bands of extremely different styles
Here are just some of them ,there are too many to name them all here :
Talking Heads , The Police, Genesis, Kate Bush, Judas Priest, Beastie Boys, Van Halen,New Order, Venom, Koyaanisqatsi/ Philip Glass ( this changed the way I perceived music and images ) , Depeche Mode, Scorpions, Daniel Balavoine ,MSG, Joan Jett, Dire Straits, Slayer, Miles Davis, The Exploited , Bowie, Janes Addiction, U2, GBH , Exodus, Malmsteen’s Rising Force, Run-Dmc, Tears For Fears, Simple Minds, Elton John, Black sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Talk Talk, Voivod, Thin Lizzy, a-ha, Trust, Metallica, Toto, Warning, ac/dc , Andreas Vollenweider, The Clash , Billy Idol, Prince, Allan Holdsworth, Iron Maiden, Rush, JMJ/Zoolook, Phil Collins , The Cure…
