ΒΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΚΟ. Hello and thank you for checking out my page!
My name is Elena Malamou. I am a singer/songwriter born in Greece and living in London for the past 8 years.
I play the guitar (I specialise in finger picking techniques), the piano, the harmonica, and I sing. I consider my style to be melodic folk/rock/country. The compositions you are listening to are my own.
I recently recorded the three first songs you can listen to here, entitled 'Candle Light Thoughts', 'Returning', and 'In My Bleeding Soul', which were produced by grammy award winner Ian Prince, and am currently again in the studio to record eight more songs with him in order to release an album.
Below you can find a list of my most important live concerts, other music related information, and my education.
LIVE PERFORMANCES:
11/04/12 Guitar Jam Festival at Vox, Volos
27/03/12 Half Note, Athens, guest of Opera Chatique
15/02/12 Elefantas Bar, Volos, with Jim Politis & Jon Valiakos
12/01/12 U Fleku, Thessaloniki, with Jim Politis
01/01/12 Rainbow Bar, Athens, with Jim Politis
22/12/11 Pasatempo, Volos, with Collective Quartette Band
14/12/11 Live & Interview on Heart FM, Volos
31/10/11 Marabou Jazz Bar (with Jim Politis), Volos, Greece
23/07/11 After Dark, Athens, Greece (Supported Skull and Dawn - ex Defile Des Ames)
02/06/11 Hard Rock Cafe, Maui, Hawaii, USA
18/06/10 The Blag Club, Notting Hill, London, UK
10/04/10 Folk for Sail festival, Brentford, London, UK
20/02/10 Dirty South, London, supporting The Vortex (Bonehead's (x-Oasis
guitar player) new band)
28/09/09 James Joyce Irish Pub, Athens, Greece
11/07/09 Portobello Bridge, London, UK
25/03/09 The Blag Club, Notting Hill, London, UK
08/03/09 The Windmill, Brixton, London, UK
29/09/08 Idryma Theoharaki, Athens, Greece (supported German experimental pianist Hauschka)
11,12,13/07/08 Rocking Under the Rocks festival, Kalambaka,Greece
19/08/07 Mushroom festival, Grevena, Greece
18/08/07 Fresh festival, Corfu, Greece
01/07 Supported Danny Cavanagh of British band Anathema on his Greek Tour
(Performed in Athens, Thessaloniki, and Patra)
21/06/07 Jet Club, Prague, Czech Republic
10/05-05/06 Slug & Lettuce pub, Putney Bridge, London, UK
OTHER:
06/04/10 Live + Interview on Hayes FM 91.8, London (Live worldwide broadcast through the internet)
18/09/09,
19/09/08,
30/08/06 Interviewed on Athens International Radio, 104.4 FM, Athens, Greece (Live worldwide broadcast through the internet)
Website: http://www.myspace.com/majortomlive
06/09 Created Music Promotions Company Black SpaceCat Promotions in Athens, Greece, and successfully organised the first event (Italian jazz pianist Antonio Farao’ and London based band Anosis) in September, in Athens, Greece
Website: http://www.blackspacecat.com
04/09 Interviewed by music website Rockap.gr
Website: http://www.rockap.gr
Here is a live review of one of my performances (in Greek):
http://www.avopolis.gr/live/default.asp?ID=737
EDUCATION:
01/08-06/08 Attended Introduction to Music Therapy short course at Goldsmiths College
09/06-10/07 Earned a degree in MA Popular Music in Kingston University
09/03-06/06 Earned a degree in Music Industry Management and Live Production BA (Hons) in Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
Website: www.elenamalamou.com
More songs can be listened to on MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/elenamalamou
On Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/elenamalamou
On Last.Fm:
http://www.last.fm/music/Elena+Malamou/Stories+Of+Oblivion
On ReverbNation:
http://www.reverbnation.com/elenamalamou
On Jumping Fish:
http://www.jumpingfish.gr/Elena_Malamou
Videos can be watched on my YouTube web page:
www.youtube.com/blackspacecat
Thank you for your time! :)
ΜΕΛΗ. Elena Malamou - songwriting, vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, harmonica
With great help from:
Stefanos Tsourelis - electric guitar
Alex Deligiannidis - Bass
Crispin The Pump Taylor - Drums
Ian Prince - Piano, Arrangemenets, Producing
ΕΠΙΡΡΟΕΣ. A bit of Led Zeppelin, Tim and Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Dream Theater, Oasis, Anathema, Sigur Ros, Simon and Garfunkel, etc
ΜΟΥΣΙΚΟ ΥΦΟΣ. folk/rock/country, acoustic guitar finger picking