| Antonis
Livieratos was
"officially" involved with music for the first time in
1982 when he as a keybordist and Vagelis Boulouhtsis as a bassist
co-establish in Ioannina, Greece, the nowadays cult band "Chapter
24", ("Kefaleo 24" in Greek, named after
Syd Barrett's song by the same name). Their first album
(following a couple of independent home- produced cassettes),
"Tin Invaders" in 1988 features lyrics in English
and despite the avant-garde reputation of the band, is definitely
pop- oriented. In 1989 the original duo grows into a quartet with
the addition of guitarist Periklis Boulouhtsis and drummer Yannis
Mitsis and moves from Ioannina to Livieratos' hometown, Athens.
This second line-up is featured in the instrumental album "To
Evretirio ton Simptoseon" ("Index of Coincidences")
recorded between 1989 and 1991. After Mitsis' departure in 1992
the band remains a trio. After a long period of virtual
inactivity, Chapter 24 returned on stage for two concerts to
celebrate their 20th anniversary (May 2002).
In the
meantime, since 1992, Livieratos teaming-up with guitarist- fellow
composer Sotiris Debonos has become involved in scoring for
films and theatrical plays. The only sample of their common
activity available as a record until now, is the enhanced-CD
"Tou Harou ta Dontia" ("Jaws of Death")
featuring the Livieratos- Debonos soundtrack along with a full-lengthed
CD-ROM version of the Kyriakos Hatzimichailidis' awarded short
film by the same title.
The
first solo record by Antonis Livieratos "To Terastio
Kitrino Pragma" ("The Huge Yellow Thing") was
released in December 1997 - a classic in terms of Greek rock
music. The album was in its entity composed, performed,
engineered and produced by him. This album marks the beginning of
the ever-since continuous presence of Livieratos as a solo
recording artist and performing bandleader. Its sequel is the EP
"Kokkinos Ouranos" ("Red Sky", May 1999). In
April of 2000 he releases the double-CD album "To Plastiko
Kouti" ("The Plastic Box"). In December 2002 he
releases the all-electronic, multilingual CD "Mother
Tongue".
During the
last few years Livieratos has also been successfully involved with
other people's projects, either as a producer or a
keyboards/ guitar player or both, usually within the limits of the
"hobART phASe system" musicians' collective in which he
participates. One may find samples of this activity in some of the
finest contemporary Greek records such as the records of
"Sigmatropic", "Woofer" and Manolis Angelakis.
From June
2000 to spring 2003, he was also the keyboardist of "Illegal
Operation". During that period of time the band recorded
and released "Space Boogie", "Careless
Love", "Blue Project" & "The
Bust".
Nowadays
he's splitting his creativity between the -once more fully active-
"Chapter 24" who have completed a
ready-to-release improvisation based new double CD and
DR. ATOMIK, the latter being the band that absorbs his new
material. |
