What inspired you to first start making music? And how did you come to be in your current incarnation? Or if you prefer, a brief bio about you.

In the end it’s all about letting your sentiments reveal.

Provide us with some info about your latest release…

We are in the procedure of recording our first album. We really hope that it will be released in the first quarter of 2020.

Which ones would you consider your main influences both music-wise & non-music-wise?

Our influences are coming from many different genres. From psychedelia, progressive rock and modal jazz to electronic, through the Berlin school of music and krautrock. Artists that have touched us are the Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Cinematic Orchestra, Bohren und Der Dlub of Gore, Portishead, Lisa Gerrard, Max Richter, Olafur Arnalds, and masters like Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota and Angelo Badalamenti. We are also inspired from cinema and works of directors like Bergman, Fellini, Lynch, Von Trier, Jarmusch, Wenders, Gilliam.

In what way does your sound differ from the rest genre-related artists/bands and why should we listen to your music? In other words, how would you describe your sound?

Today, different genres merge It’s hard to relate to other bands as we can’t easily categorize our music. If we would try to describe exactly our sound we may have used terms like Cinematic Dark Modern Neoclassical Ambient Jazz with Trip-Hop structures. But then again, this is too long and too undefinable for most people, so we just use Cinematic Jazz. Why you should listen to our music? We develop soundscapes with visuals on our concerts so as to create a cinematic atmosphere which concludes in a unique experience.

Please name your 3 desert islands albums, movies & books…

Albums: Discography / Pink Floyd
Live in Europe Volumes 1-2 / Klaus Schulze – Lisa Gerrard
Resonance / Manfred Schoof Quintet

Movies: Wings of Desire / Wim Wenders
La vie de Boheme / Aki Kaurismaki
Brazil / Terry Gilliam

Books: My Childhood / Maxim Gorky
Music, Society, Education / Christopher Small
Suna No Onna / Abe Kobo

Do you prefer studio or performing live and why?

Both situations are great for different reasons. Playing live it surely is a great experience, connecting with the audience, there is always an interaction. On the other hand, in a studio situation, where you feel cozy, experimenting with your bandmates, there is the place that your creativity can be released 100%.

Is there any funny-unique story you would like to share with us, always in relation to your music ‘career’?

We had to play on a rooftop of a seven-story office building downtown Athens in 2017 and we hadn’t seen the place till we got there right before the event. It appeared that the sole access to the roof was a small, tiny iron staircase, ready to collapse even under the lighter load. We had to curry all our equipment through this ladder back and forth. Each time we crossed, we thought we will fall down the void below us. Apart from that, it was a great gig.

Which track of your own would you point out as the most unique and why?

Abstract. It stands on the crossroad between our first works and our current sound.

Would you like to share with our readers your future plans?

Our first priority is to release our debut album. Then to have as many gigs as possible through 2020.

Free question!!! (Ask yourself a question) you wish to answer and haven’t been given the opportunity…

Do you feel that your music has an appeal to the audience?

The audience of these genres of music expands exponentially which means that young people are searching for new sounds and more experimental music.

Curated by: Konstantinos Pamfiliss

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Connect with Kinetoscope Ensemble:

Fb page:
https://www.facebook.com/kinetoscopeensemble/

Bandcamp page:
https://kinetoscopeensemble.bandcamp.com/

YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsiND58OaT0vZ5FVYLkXZKA

Soundcloud page:
https://soundcloud.com/user-629400406