Mode Plagal

Biography

Mode Plagal belong to a group of bands who, using the jazz technique, have created a unique musical idiom. An idiom with references to traditional music and verse, to Byzantine sounds, funk rhythms and many other musical elements which do not belong to just one genre, or have not been used per se, but only as influences. The Athens based band was formed in 1990 by Thodoris Rellos (saxophone, voice), Kleon Antoniou (guitars, voice) and Takis Kanellos (drums). In 1995 Antonis Maratos (bass) joins...

Mode Plagal belong to a group of bands who, using the jazz technique, have created a unique musical idiom. An idiom with references to traditional music and verse, to Byzantine sounds, funk rhythms and many other musical elements which do not belong to just one genre, or have not been used per se, but only as influences.

The Athens based band was formed in 1990 by Thodoris Rellos (saxophone, voice), Kleon Antoniou (guitars, voice) and Takis Kanellos (drums).
In 1995 Antonis Maratos (bass) joins the band and they release their first album, MODE PLAGAL, on Ano Kato records, Thessaloniki.

In 1998, with the addition of Angelos Polychronou (percussion), they release MODE PLAGAL II on Lyra. This second album was voted No 96 in the annual WMCE (World Music Charts Europe) Top 100, for the year 2000.

In 2001, with the addition of Manos Saridakis and Florian Mikouta -who joins the band in their live concerts ever since- (keys), they release their 3d album, MODE PLAGAL III, on Lyra.

Mode Plagal has also collaborated with Bosphorus on the Beyond the Bosphorus project, which resulted in the album Beyond the Bosphorus.

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