Mitrousis Thomas
The Seed
Label: Thomas Mitrousis
Genre: Jazz / Avant Garde
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“THE SEED” consists of eight compositions with obvious modern jazz references, as well as influences from classical and post rock. The cinematic introduction of the opening track “Crossing Lines”, immediately engulfs the audience into the atmosphere of the album.
The compositions create continuous exchanges of emotions and images, retaining an undiminished anticipation from the first note to the last. Each piece has a tendency to refer to a different musical genre. “Fax From Fux” contains baroque elements, “Poisonous Little Flower” moves with an impressionistic mood but all compositions maintain an amalgamated character, due to the common jazz background of the four musicians.
The quartet explores the amazingly broad varieties of timbres and dynamics of the instruments and manages to maintain a sonic diversity with an aesthetically contemporary approach, through the whimsical arrangements.
"The pleasure is simple, direct and completely jazz; it is very well played, and it swings just enough to keep the balance between body and mind. [...] 'The Seed' is a gratifying surprise."-BESTOFJAZZ
"He tends to combine notated context with improvisation, and with his outstanding technical skill, the guitar not only solos, but also conducts a creative dialogue with partners.[...]Mitrousis is a new and promising name in the European jazz scene."-JAZZQUAD
Thomas Mitrousis: guitar
Kostas Yaxoglou: piano
Paraskevas Kitsos: double bass
Dimitris Klonis: drums