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ARTIST
ANGELOPOULOS, JAN VAN
TITLE
Streams
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
TERANGA BEAT
CATALOG #
TBLP 012LP
TBLP 012LP
GENRE
WORLD
RELEASE DATE
7/16/2021
Teranga Beat presents the drummer-composer
Yannis Angelopoulos
, aka
Jan Van
and his project
Streams
. Jan Van started as a drummer in clubs playing popular Greek music (laïka) even before he was 18, a typical first step for a musician in Greece. In this way he experienced the underground and in fact the surrealistic atmosphere of the laïka Greek clubs. At the age of 20, he started working as a roadie (installing drums) and it was then that he realized a drummer can be a musical director-producer and not just a session musician. So, he decided to continue his education and in 1996 he went to study at the Rotterdam's Conservatorium's (Codarts) Jazz Department, where he stayed for seven years. Soon after his return to Athens he started wondering how to fuse jazz with laïkodimotiko (lumpen, popular music), something detectable in his recent discography. Since the mid '00s, Jan Van has been working on various jazz projects in Athens, even though the years preceding the 2010s were something of a tough period for the local scene, with limited live opportunities. Furthermore, since 2010, Greece has famously been at the epicenter of the global financial crisis. In an already dysfunctional cultural system during this decade, culture eventually became a luxury. Following ten years of recession, in March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic destroyed the efforts of the country that was struggling to recover and took away any hope. Under high psychological pressure, Jan Van had the idea of a jam session as a way-out for expression. At the same time, the particular concept of water and its properties were stuck in his mind. Water's fluidity and momentum and the idea of a quiet streaming state, shaped the only concept he eventually shared with his fellow musicians before starting to play. He only wanted them to have the energy of the water as a reference. By the end of May, a few days after the end of the lockdown, they gathered in a studio and recorded a live session of spontaneous compositions and improvisations. During that session each musician took a step back to listen and give space to one another. None of the tracks was composed before the recording. The result is a deep album which consists of organic beats with spiritual jazz vibes, sometimes exploring fusions with demotika (traditional) elements, sometimes leaning to cinematic atmospheres. The recording was mixed on two-inch reel tape with analog equipment, to achieve the best possible sound quality. Gatefold cover; includes download code.
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