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Concert: ANTHANO, Seijiro Murayama, Chris Pitsiokos
October 19 @ 20:00 – 22:30
Improvisation / Contemporary music / Electronic music
w/ANTHANO, Seijiro Murayama & Chris Pitsiokos
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam
20:00 (doors: 19:30)
Tickets: €10 recommended, sliding scale (at the door or Online)
On Saturday 19 October, GROND is welcoming to Amsterdam the duo ANTHANO, Seijiro Murayama, and Chris Pitsiokos.
ANTHANO consists of the musicians Anton Lambert and Thanos Polymeneas Liontiris, based in Belgium and in Greece respectively. This October they meet for a tour in the low lands, bringing their halldorophone and live-electronics improvisation sets to Amsterdam. The same evening, we have the pleasure to host the France-based Japanese percussionist and voice improviser Seijiro Murayama and Chris Pitsiokos, saxophonist and improviser based in New York and Berlin. For this event, Murayama and Pitsiokos are taking GROND’s stage as a duo.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
ANTHANO is newly found duo, a collaboration between Thanos Polymeneas Liontiris (GR) and Anton Lambert (BE). They first crossed paths in Athens in the fall of 2023 through their shared passion for experimental and innovative sound. With Anton’s practice in live electronics and Thanos’ expertise of feedback-augmented instruments and electronics, particularly the halldorophone, they started improvising together. This creative synergy sparked a series of recordings, weaving diverse sonic worlds into feedback loops and giving birth to a new album set to release in spring 2025 on the Italian label Kohlhaas. Ahead of the album’s release, Anton and Thanos will bring their soundscapes to life in a series of live performances across Belgium and The Netherlands in October 2024. These concerts are a dive into the realm of improvisation and sound experimentation, where haunting field recordings, intricate feedback loops, and deconstructed textures create an immersive auditory experience. Don’t miss the chance to witness this collaboration as it unfolds in real-time.
Seijiro Murayama was born in 1957 in Nagasaki, Japan. He has been working on improvisation since 1980. He uses voice and percussion and tries to apply his practice of improvisation to other fields of creative activities. Graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Eiichi Chino, Masahiro Nishie, Toshihiko Izutsu, Fumio Koizumi, Shuzo Kuki, then French Literature + Philosophy through skew reading, in particular, Blanchot. Their influence seems to have determined his activities’ direction since then. In 1982, he toured the United States with Keiji Haino, and during his stay in New York just after that, he encountered theradical, provoking music of John Zorn, a lower Manhattan emerging force. After coming back to Japan, through the explosive sound trio Absolute Null Punkt, under the influence of Akira Aida, Kenichi Takeda, Masami Akita, the magazine Transonic, musicians Derek Bailey, Kaoru Abe, etc., he embarked publicly on an exploration of improvisation. Although he temporarily refrained from performing due to some doubts about the styles of the first generation of improvisers he had followed, he restarted playing, thanks to the movements such as Onkyo in Japan in the 90’s. In 99, he had an opportunity to live and work in France, which changed his way of thinking and playing, he began to concentrate in particular on solo improvisation. Today, he mainly performs in solo, duo and trio formats. As for collaborations with other fields’ artists, he notes that even if he has experienced quite a lot of sorts of collaborations with dance and theater, his current interest is more towards words, images and sounds.
Chris Pitsiokos (b. 1990) is a New York/Berlin-based saxophonist, composer and improviser. While Pitsiokos does not concern himself with genre, broadly speaking his music falls under the umbrella of experimentalism, including noise, improvised music, experimental jazz, free jazz, noise rock, new music, minimal music, drone and art rock. As a soloist he has developed a unique voice on the alto saxophone: his expansion of the instrument’s vocabulary has served to multiply its emotive and formal possibilities. He has recorded over 30 albums as a leader or co-leader.