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Hinting at the band’s strange and casual association with time, it all began on a hot Mediterranean summer afternoon back in August, 1994 with a wintry-sounding song entitled “December”. Whilst holidaying and relaxing on the Greek island of Ithaki, western Greece, high-school buddies Alexandros Miaoulis and Alexis Papaioannou work on the Papaioannou-penned tune before traveling to the neighboring island of Lefkas to meet up with friend George Kolyvas, where they present the idea and get him to join in. Though the trio had occasionally mucked about musically in the preceding months, it was not until that specific summer afternoon that they decided to pursue the cause further. All three felt that there was a strong artistic bond in their friendship, and, by extension, potential music-making. A date was set for right after summer, in Athens, their home base.

Frequent domestic meetings by the trio that often dragged on into gently-played, late-night rehearsal sessions, gradually produced a growing number of intimate, almost naive-sounding yet finely crafted instrumentals. They were strictly acoustic in sound - classical and acoustic guitars, plus mandolin - and, in most cases, melancholy. The style and sound of the trio, which called itself “Icholoutro”, came as a stark contrast to the work of Papaioannou’s other parallel band, Oh! My Garden, a loud and ebullient old-school funk outfit with a devoted following on the local club circuit.

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McNutsack

Love it. "Your Hand In Mine" helped me discover this; amazing stuff.

October 2011
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Amazing!

September 2011
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cannot get enough of this. so brilliant.

June 2011
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και εγώ σας αγαπώώώ!!!

January 2011
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σας αγαπώ!<3

December 2010
ermal1991

Just discovered this band in a newspaper and WOW! I need the "Man in the lighthouse" album... someone got link? :(

July 2010
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New EP released: download here http://www.archive.org/details/BurgundyGrapes-Lagero

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