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Hometaping started off in Athens Greece, somewhere between 1995 and 2000 (the exact date is not verifiable). They are Nikos Aima and Aris Siafas. Their music emerged as a need to record anything, anytime, anyplace, anyhow. The songs ended up like out-of-tune pop monsterpieces. Subjects are drawn out of simple everyday life experience (war and sodomy, isolation and imprisonment, hospitals and public toilets, weddings and funerals, sexual violence in art, the nude in theatre, frenzied mothers in voodoo practices, desperate lovers, exploitation in love, forgotten actresses in tombs, socialism and capitalism etc.) and develop in an inescapably delirious way. The vocals are lyrically deranged. Throughout the songs one can recognize a twisted adherence to symmetry along with discomfort in harmony. Defiance of all human ear advancements in recorded sound perception and love for more or less crude techniques in song production. Influences are obvious but not completely. All music genres of the 80s (electro pop, new wave, italo, experimental, mainstream etc.) mixed with elements of Greek music of the centuries, inevitably ringing in the ears, running through the veins, dancing in the genes, abiding in cells . Their new release "Red Coffee" is again a compilation of multifarious pieces made between 2005- 2010. Conceived and recorded after, before or during various household activities the songs bear sometimes an air of playfulness and others a sense of discomfort about the house and its surroundings. More tender and uneasy than ever HOMETAPING invite you to this new tour around the house and the neighbourhood. Discography 7UN15 Hello 7" (2009) 7UN26 Youth Against Socialism 7" (2011) CDUN27 Red Coffee CD (2011) |
Aris Siafas Vocals |
Nikos Aima Instruments |