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johnfotiadis
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Empty City Squares
NEWS
JUNE 2009 - Hey folks, there is more stuff coming. I'm thrilled to see some of your are downloading these tracks. Please leave a comment if you like what you are hearing.
APRIL 2009 - Thought I would try an experiment and make these tracks available for download FOR FREE, for a limited time. I'd be curious to see if anyone chooses to grab them. Their yours for the taking. Enjoy!
OCTOBER 2008 - Please note: All archival music is being moved to http://www.soundclick.com/johnfotiadis. Check there for your old favs.
OCTOBER 2008 - FINAL mixes of "Poet With A Plan", "With Nothing To Lose", "Dirty Town" and "God Of Mediocrity" are up for your listening pleasure. Much more coming....including a new soundclick page that will house archival material and demos....stay tuned.
JULY 2008 - It only took a year.....out with the old stuff, in with the new. I've just posted some rough mixes of what will be the first tracks on this album of mine, "Empty City Squares". The drums on "Dirty Town" are played by the great Frank Vilardi. Slide guitar on "With Nothing To Lose" by my good friend and musical inspiration, the incomparable Ira Siegel - the only man I ever met who can pick up my righty strung guitar, turn it upside down, and play it lefty better than I play it righty! Yikes!
JUNE 2007 - A new myspace page which is a place-holder for now. The project is called "Empty City Squares". Check out : www.myspace.com/emptycitysquares
Recordings for this project have officially begun with a slew of new songs.
APRIL 2008 - Recording "Empty City Squares" continues at Yanni Road. Look for something old and something new in the coming weeks.
APRIL 2009 - Thought I would try an experiment and make these tracks available for download FOR FREE, for a limited time. I'd be curious to see if anyone chooses to grab them. Their yours for the taking. Enjoy!
OCTOBER 2008 - Please note: All archival music is being moved to http://www.soundclick.com/johnfotiadis. Check there for your old favs.
OCTOBER 2008 - FINAL mixes of "Poet With A Plan", "With Nothing To Lose", "Dirty Town" and "God Of Mediocrity" are up for your listening pleasure. Much more coming....including a new soundclick page that will house archival material and demos....stay tuned.
JULY 2008 - It only took a year.....out with the old stuff, in with the new. I've just posted some rough mixes of what will be the first tracks on this album of mine, "Empty City Squares". The drums on "Dirty Town" are played by the great Frank Vilardi. Slide guitar on "With Nothing To Lose" by my good friend and musical inspiration, the incomparable Ira Siegel - the only man I ever met who can pick up my righty strung guitar, turn it upside down, and play it lefty better than I play it righty! Yikes!
JUNE 2007 - A new myspace page which is a place-holder for now. The project is called "Empty City Squares". Check out : www.myspace.com/emptycitysquares
Recordings for this project have officially begun with a slew of new songs.
APRIL 2008 - Recording "Empty City Squares" continues at Yanni Road. Look for something old and something new in the coming weeks.
An Architect by day, and multi-instrumentalist and songwriter by night, John Fotiadis (Yanni to his friends) has written and recorded music for film and theater and TV.
His new project "Empty City Squares", is a musical vehicle to showcase a series of songs written between 2005 and 2008. While Yanni's influences cover many musical genres, the music he has always loved first and foremost is British rock, primarily from the 60s and 70s. Strains of Badfinger, David Bowie, The Kinks, The Who, The Stones, and of course the Beatles can be heard in these tracks.
Empty City Squares also has a myspace page. Keep up to date at
www.myspace.com/emptycitysquares
His new project "Empty City Squares", is a musical vehicle to showcase a series of songs written between 2005 and 2008. While Yanni's influences cover many musical genres, the music he has always loved first and foremost is British rock, primarily from the 60s and 70s. Strains of Badfinger, David Bowie, The Kinks, The Who, The Stones, and of course the Beatles can be heard in these tracks.
Empty City Squares also has a myspace page. Keep up to date at
www.myspace.com/emptycitysquares
Why this name?
Profoundly inspired by the painter Giorgio DeChirico...
Do you play live?
The plan is to play this music out live sooner than later. I've played out in the NY metro area throughout the last decade, and occasionally at "The Piccollo Grande Bar" in Lavrion, Greece.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
Distribution has changed. Record labels are finding harder to justify their existence. Never has the playing field been more level. I'm excited about that.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
I'm not sure. I like the idea of making my music available over the Internet. Only if a deal would help me make this music more available online. I think this method of distribution is quickly eclipsing everything else out there. Of late I've tried iTunes, and it's pretty convincing. Maybe someone's finally figured it out.
Band History:
I've been playing music since I was a kid. I learned drums first in grade school and then someone gave me a guitar as a birthday present. I tooled around with it until someone tuned it for me and showed me a few basic chords. I taught myself the rest. It wasn't until I got into The Beatles that I wanted to actually "play" and write music as well. To me there was never a point in playing unless you play your own music. I've been in and out of bands over the years as my architecture career has ebbed and flowed, but I am always writing and recording when time allows.
Your influences?
The Beatles, 60s Brit-Pop, 90s Brit-pop, "Exile"-era Stones, World Music, Nick Drake, Burt Bachrach, David Bowie, Italian pop, Blues, Brian Wilson, John Barry, Ambient music, Elliott Smith, Elton John, Brian Eno, Baroque music, Glam Rock, Power Pop...just about anything that spills out of a speaker and into my ear....
Favorite spot?
Anywhere in the Mediterranean where it is warm and dry and always sunny! Given the chance I'd move to Rome in a heartbeat. Either that or a Greek island in the Aegean.
Equipment used:
10 fingers, 1 set of vocal chords, a brain (or half a brain depending on how you see it).......AND a Roland XP-80 keyboard with a bunch of expansion cards added in, 2 teles - an American standard tele tuned standard and a '72 telecaster custom tuned like Keef's (5 strings, open G)....both typically going through my AC30 or Blues Junior, A beautiful burst Elitist Epiphone Casino, my treasured Rickenbacker 4001v63 bass, a Martin DM acoustic, An Epiphone AJ500 acoustic, a Mapex drum kit, an old rickety piano and various resources for percussion too numerous to name, PLUS a growing collection of outboard gear including an amazing Neumann TLM 49, bunch of mics from China, all at times going through a chandler TG2 preamp and a bunch of other things....all recorded onto a Protools Rig running on a Mac Quad....**phew**
Anything else...?
"The Greeks took Troy because they kept on trying!"
Thucydides
"There is only one evil in the world, ignorance, and only one good, knowledge"
Socrates
Thucydides
"There is only one evil in the world, ignorance, and only one good, knowledge"
Socrates
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