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Kore. Ydro. are a music group from Corfu.
Biography
Kore. Ydro. were formed in Corfu, Greece, during the autumn of 1993 by 15-year-old schoolmates Pantelis Dimitriadis, Giorgos Arvanitakis and Spiros Katagis. Not many listeners appreciated their unstoppable output of unrefined, "no-fi" home recordings of trash aesthetics, but word about the group began to spread from mouth to mouth, with extra help from peculiar live performances, unprocessed video-clips and humorous short "films".
The original line up - as long as the sound - of the band changed by the years; Konstantinos Amygdalos joined in 1997 and Spiros Katagis departed in 2000.
2001 marked a new era for the group with the adhesion of pianist/multi-instrumentalist (and by the time only real Kore. Ydro. fan) Alexandros Makris.
The self-produced official debut If All Ever Ended Here was released in March 2003 by the legendary Greek label Wipe Out Records in 515 copies.
The free download-only mini album Seven Months Later (available from the official Kore. Ydro. website) followed seven months later.
February 2004 saw the release of the first official Kore. Ydro. video - also produced by the group - for the song "Your Kindness" , the highlight of If All Ever Ended Here.
Almost three years after the release of the critically acclaimed debut and after many postponements because of the never-stopping blows (negative and positive) of artistic fate, Kore. Ydro. have just returned with a new album on a new label (Capitol/EMI).
The much anticipated - by a prime minority - self-proclaimed "new post-erotic, post-christian, post-communist, post-progressive, post-post-punk manifesto" of the band is indeed Cheap Pop for the Elite , a traditionally self-production of substandard budget , already been recorded before the EMI contact, in the group's home studio in Corfu by Pantelis, Alexandros and the three new members - friends and casual Kore. Ydro. collaborators from the past, who in the meantime had joined the basic artistic team; drummer Alexis Apostolidis (05.2004) and the guitarists Spiros Spirakos (01.2005) and Nickos Varotsis (05.2005).
The record has already received enthusiastic reviews by the Greek music press and the first single/video (produced and directed by the band) "No More Affairs" is already an unhoped hit.
Discography
- If All Eνer Ended Here (Wipe Out) 2003
- Seven Months Later (online release) 2003
- Cheap Pop for the Elite (Capitol) 2006