LARVA

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  • country:Cyprus
  • style(s):Jazz, Mediterranean
  • label:not signed
  • type:Duo
  • gender:male
  • instrumentation:instrumental
  • artist posted by:Windcraft Loud

Line up

  • Alexis Kasinos  (Guitar, Electric Bass)
  • Vassilis Philippou  (Vocals, Piano, Frame drum, Ney)

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Larva draws inspiration from Cypriot folk melodies and rhythms merged with western musical elements. A new approach on revisiting tradition and writing original compositions using influences from world and jazz music. It transforms ideas that emanate from the past into contemporary sounds, in a completely new format; like the metamorphosis of larva in nature.

Alexis Kasinos is a guitarist and composer based in Cyprus. From the age of 9 he attended piano lessons and a year later he started playing the guitar.
After participating in various projects and performing in different concerts and music festivals he was accepted in Codarts Conservatory of Rotterdam where he studied Jazz Guitar Performance and finished his BMus degree with a “Cum Laude” (With Honor). In 2014 Alexis was accepted in Amsterdam Conservatory where he graduated as a Master of Jazz Guitar student with a final recital of 8,5.
During his studies in the Netherlands Alexis performed with small and big ensembles in well- known venues such as Lantaren Venster and Melkweg Theatre. He also participated in various jazz workshops and he had lessons from worldwide successful musicians such as Peter Bernstein, Jesse Van Ruller and Gilad Hekselman.
In the meantime he is developing his own album and performs with different bands as a sideman and a leader by playing concerts with original compositions and arrangements.

Vassilis Philippou (b.1991) is a Cypriot musician who focuses on composition. He studied piano and composition in London and in the Hague, whilst he has made two research studies on the relationship of sound & space, and on the music of the
Mediterranean as an influence to classical composition.
Vassilis’s music has been performed in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, and Cyprus. It has been broadcasted by BBC Radio 3 (UK) and RIK Radio (CY) and also presented in Aldeburgh and Cheltenham music festivals amongst others.
He is currently in Cyprus, composing and performing with various artists in the fields of music, cinema and theatre.