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| The Limiñanas, live @ Europavox Festival, Fuzz Club, Athens |
Europavox Festival, a project dedicated to the promotion of European musical diversity which started in 2006, opened its doors for the first time in Athens last Saturday, with an event held at Fuzz Club, featuring The Limiñanas from France, The Oscillation from the UK, The Noise Figures from Greece and the Berlin-based The Third Sound, the band formed by Hákon Aðalsteinsson, formerly of Icelandic band Singapore Sling.
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| The Limiñanas |
The Limiñanas, the headliners of this mini festival, played an excellent 70-minute set filled with infectious, '60s-influenced psych and garage pop melodies.
The band from Cabestany, in the south of France, presented tracks from their recent album "Malamore", as well as older material, which showed us how the language-barrier can be easily broken down by the power of good, old rock’n’roll. Their songs, sung in French and English by either Marie or Lio Limiñana, the group’s creative core, are driven by buzzing garage-rock guitar lines and simple, yet highly-effective, drum rhythms. The Limiñanas’ rock energy and good vibes didn’t take too long to spread from the band to the audience, who showed their appreciation to both new and old material; the perfect ending for a fine night of rock music from all corners of the European map!
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| Marie and Lio Limiñana |
Earlier in the evening we also enjoyed The Oscillation’s krautrock-influenced, psychedelic sound, The Noise Figures explosive, garage-blues rooted, guitar & drums workout, and The Third Sound’s mix of psych-rock and post-punk.
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| The Oscillation, live @ Europavox Festival, Fuzz Club, Athens |
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| The Noise Figures, live @ Europavox Festival, Fuzz Club, Athens |
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| The Third Sound, live @ Europavox Festival, Fuzz Club, Athens |
The Oscillation, the band formed by Demian Castellanos almost 10 years ago in Walthamstow, presented their latest album "Monographic", which sounded even better live, with the motorik drum beat adding more drive to their fuzzy guitar sound. The Noise Figures, the representatives of the local rock scene, seem to be getting better and better each time we cross paths, and this was definitely the best show we have witnessed by them so far, while The Third Sound kicked off proceeding by spreading their dark "Gospels of Degeneration".
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| The Limiñanas |
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| The Oscillation |
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| The Noise Figures |
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| The Third Sound |
Check out below The Limiñanas playing "Funeral Baby", as well as highlights from the performances of The Oscillation, The Noise Figures and The Third Sound at the Athens edition of Europavox Festival:
The Limiñanas - Funeral Baby (live in Athens @ Europavox Festival)
The Oscillation - Take Us to the Moon (live in Athens @ Europavox Festival)
The Noise Figures - In The Boneyard (live in Athens @ Europavox Festival)
The Third Sound (live in Athens @ Europavox Festival)
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