kore. ydro.

Six years have passed since the release of the much talked about Kore.Ydro. album, “Frini Pop Gia Tin Elit” (Cheap Pop For The Elite), and the elite minority [hence the “elite” of the title], who knew them from the time of their debut, “An Ola Telionan Edo” (If All Ends Here) on Wipe Out Records, has now become a bigger audience of loyal fans, worthy of the band’s uniqueness.

The post-erotic, post-Christian, post communist, post-progressive, post-post-punk manifest of the group from Corfu -whose lone consistent and uninterrupted course from 1993 until today, unrepentantly off limits and worlds away from each (mainstream and underground) established local music wave, has almost made it a cult legend – had been released by EMI, in a happy encounter between DIY attitude and ambition. The album, an entirely independent production of very low budget [hence the “cheap” of the title], included 12 songs the majority of which was written between 2003 and 2005 and recorded in the group’s home studio in Corfu and it managed not only to distrurb the unsuspecting Greek music industry but also to get enlisted among the best Greek albums of that year.

2012, on Saint Valentine’s eve (February 13rd) Inner Ear will hopefully release, on Exostis label, a re-issue of “Frini Pop Gia Tin Elit (Cheap Pop For The Elite)” on pink double vinyl, in 250 copies only, for all Christines, the lovers of nothing, those who have nobody and everybody else who will pre-order in time.

After the withdrawal of all the members that participated in the live version of Kore. Idro. the heroic initial duo P.E. Dimitriadis and Alexandros Makris pulled together all their inner strength and managed to get in the studio and record the songs, the majority of which they had composed during the period 2006-2008. Three years of fierce fighting with gods and demons. The “existential”/”metaphysical” album of Kore.Idro., “All The Truth About The Children of ‘78”, is a titanic production of Anousia Edasi wholly performed and produced in the island of Kerkyra and is available in cd by Capitol/EMI and in collectable double vinyl by Inner Ear.