Andreas Polyzogopoulos - Anicca (2015)

Trumpet player and composer Andreas Polyzogopoulos grew up in Samiko, a small village of southwest Greece. He picked up the guitar at a young age until he discovered the trumpet at age eighteen. He studied jazz trumpet at the Conservatory of Amsterdam (BMus) and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (MA) where he won the Toots Thielemans award. He also took lessons from Markus Stockhausen and followed a workshop with Paolo Fresu in Sardegna.
In 2008 he recorded his first personal album (Perfumed Dreams) with the group Poly Quartet and won the first place in “Motives for Jazz” competition in Belgium. In 2010 he toured Europe as a member of European Youth Jazz Orchestra and in 2011 he recorded on Dimitris Kalantzis’ quintet cd “Mano’s” which was the first jazz record to become Gold and later Platinum in Greece. He has played in various important jazz festivals and venues such as North Sea Jazz Festival, Odessa jazz Festival, Sanghai world music Festival, Berlin Jazz Festival, I suoni delle Dolomiti, Jazz a la Vilette, Banlieues Bleues.
He has recorded five personal albums and appears in more than seventy as a sideman. He has collaborated with the majority of the Greek jazz musicians as well as with world music artists such as Savina Yannatou, Maria Farantouri and Psarantonis. Andreas also performed and recorded with international artists such as Jaques Morelembaum, Tore Brunborg, Diederik Wissels, Michel Portal, Gunter Baby Zomer, Markus Stockhausen, Tony Lakatos, Dulce Pontes, Serge Teyssot Gay (Noir Desir), Anne Paceo, Marc Buronfosse and Federico Casagrande.
The European Jazz Scene is where Andreas feels at home, especially where the music provides enough space to take risks and experiment with the timbres of the trumpet, the rhythm, electronics and silence. His later records include a tribute to his favourite band Pink Floyd (“Heart of the Sun”), followed by “Annica” (inspired by a ten day silent meditation) and the ambient album “One Inch of Love”. After a residency in “Cite des Arts” in Paris, Andreas moved to Brussels and soon after he started collaborating with pianist Diederik Wissels. He appears on Wissels’ cd “Secrecy” and soon they will release a duo album.

Drums, Percussion – Alexandros Drakos Ktistakis
Electric Bass – Αντώνης Μαράτος
Electric Piano, Synth – Costis Christodoulou
Guitar – Andreas Hourdakis

Tracklist:
1.01 - Andreas Polyzogopoulos - Barbas (7:52)
1.02 - Andreas Polyzogopoulos - Not Even (7:06)
1.03 - Andreas Polyzogopoulos - Apagio (9:41)
1.04 - Andreas Polyzogopoulos - Anicca (7:02)
1.05 - Andreas Polyzogopoulos - Vigla (6:43)
1.06 - Andreas Polyzogopoulos - Se Nostalgo (7:29)
1.07 - Andreas Polyzogopoulos - Volcano (5:26)
1.08 - Andreas Polyzogopoulos - Pont luis blanc (6:27)