Aris Karatarakis

Halcyon Selects: Bear in Heaven – Sinful Nature

Bear In Heaven is another great band based in Brooklyn, a city which traditionally gives us some of the best contemporary bands of the recent years. Their sound incorporates elements from psychedelic, electronic, experimental and krautrock and their official debut album “Red Boom of The Bloom” was released in 2007. Then, two years later came a sophomore critically acclaimed album titled “Beast Rest Forth Month”, which listed them in the elite of other bands similar to their sound, such as School of Seven Bells. This year, they come back with an equally very good album named “I Love You, It’s Cool” fulfilling the audience’s great expectations. First single was “The Reflection of You”, while yesterday a new music video was published for their second single titled “Sinful Nature”, directed by Yoonha Park, a former Pitchfork Media producer and editor. This brilliant music video unexpectedly combines late-80s iconography, with CGI adaptations of characters from the movie Pretty Woman and colorful neon backgrounds, giving a visual result which perfectly fits the song. Their new LP “I Love You, It’s Cool” is out now via Hometapes.

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A Gathering – A Project By Maria Thaleia Karra and Olga Chatzidaki

Andreas Angelidakis, Your Constructions are a Gamble

Through pictures unique incidents are being unfold, bringing up powerful experiences and at the same time provoke emotions. With a focus on Greece, these artifacts-posters stand as the starting examples for the recovery of our historical memories and the redefinition of our identities and ideals. Contributing artists established artists from Greece as well as abroad, each poster consists the surface on which are depicted from personal lives to imaginary connotations concerning always Greece.

Banu Cennetoglu & Sylvia Kouvali, 0TT0, 2012, courtesy the artists

The ‘a gathering’ is a project under the curation of Maria Thaleia Karra and Olga Chatzidaki. This May the project will travel around different spots of Athens, which have a special historical and/or political importance and also, to various forms of media. From June and on, all the works will be exhibited at the building of Peiraios 260 during the Athens Festival. Afterwards, during October of 2012,the exhibition will be hosted by the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, as part of the events of the Invisible Cities for the celebration of 100 years from Salonica’s independence. OZON, in its next issue, will host an interview with the curators of the ‘a gathering’ which will be accompanied with some photos of their work by Daphne Anesti.

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Halcyon Selects: St. Lucia – Before the Dive

St. Lucia is a new Brooklyn-based band of Jean-Philippe Grobler, whom I already have mentioned many months ago, introducing to you one of their first –almost unknown back then- wonderful single “All Eyes On You”, believing in their talent and waiting for them to shine during this year. Something they actually managed, a couple of months later by releasing their first proper self-titled EP via Neon Gold Records, with the single “We Got It Wrong” winning very good reviews and its beautiful video being hosted by the best music blogs and websites around the world. After that, their fame continued to rise thanks to articles on big music magazines such as NME and Billboard, and an invitation to participate in the famous SXSW Festival, giving a very successful gig, considered by many as one of this year’s best, while The Shins also called them to be the opening act in their recent concert in Terminal 5 of New York. Next single from the EP is one more great track, titled “Before the Dive”, which was selected as the opening track of the brand new compilation of Kitsuné named “Kitsuné America”, dedicated to the best new bands from the USA! The music video of the song premiered yesterday on The Guardian’s website and it is co-directed by Elliot Sellers and Carlos Lopez Estrada. For those who wish to download their new remixed EP for free, you can do so in exchange for a “like” on their official Facebook fan page.

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New Fashion Designer: Gül Ağış

Interview: Naya Zikou | Photographer: Ayten Alpün

Tell me a little about yourself… What are your general professional and non-professional interests?

I love art, taking photos and spiritual works such as yoga, meditation and quantum…What you think you become…This is my philosophy.

What’s your favorite part about conceptualizing a design?

I love the beginning, like when you come up with something and you know that you get it…like the process of falling in love…You have the heart beat, excitement…

Who are some of your favorite designers and what are some of your favorite clothing stores/blogs/websites/magazines/books? 

I, always, admired Helmut Lang and Ennio Capasa (Costume National), as I have worked many years with him. I love Dazed & Confused, Love Magazine, Le Black, Kiliwatch in Paris, small shops in Tokyo, weekdays in Stockholm, antique bazaar in Milan, Navigli with vintage stuff and spiritual books on sufism and healing.

Where do you get your inspiration and what are some of your fashion goals?

I get my inspiration from everywhere. My mind, always, work on the new ideas and forms, materials and stories. On my latest collection “My Tears Are My Witness”, I used a lot of turkish carpet symbols in order to tell the story…

What advice do you have for aspiring fashion designers?

Always believe in your dreams, be creative yet grounded.

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Parnassos – Contemporary Art Exhibition

The group exhibition of contemporary art entitled “Parnassos”, will be inaugurated today, May 7, 2012 in the exhibition hall of the Philological Society “Parnassos”, located at 8 Karytsi Street, on the square of St. George.

The exhibition is organized by DaDa Da Academy in cooperation with the Wiener Art Foundation and is supported by the Austrian Embassy. At the exhibition there are mainly ​​ young Greek artists who are showing their work, as well as, these have succeeded internationally, but also foreign artists living and working in Athens.

The exhibition’s title was chosen both to honor the Philological Society, which in three years is celebrating 150 years since it was first operated. Also, regarding the mountain of Parnassos, the exhibition is trying to make a connection between the hardship of climbing the mountain with the superhuman effort that the creative people have to overcome in order to succeed their objectives.

The participants are: Phaedon Anastasiadis, Nikos Arvanitis, Nanos Valaoritis, Giannis Varelas,  Kostis Velonis, Giorgos Georgakopoulos, Aris and Lakis Jonas / The Callas, Vaso Gkavaise, Dennis Kavallieratos, Vassilis Karouk, Em Kei & Nicolaich, Panos Koutrouboussis, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Margarita Bofiliou, Rallou Panayiotou, Panos Papadopoulos, Alexander Tzannes, Peter Touloudis, Edy Ferguson.

Opening hours: Daily 10.00-13.00 and 18.00-21.00. Closed at Sunday’s.

Curator: Stefan Bidner

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Halcyon Selects: Blood Orange – Champagne Coast

For those who haven’t discovered him yet, Blood Orange (Devonté Hynes) is a british composer, songwriter and producer who released last summer one of the best debut albums of 2011. At first he wrote songs for various famous artists such as Florence + The Machine, The Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx and Theophilus London, but last year Blood Orange released his first personal full-length, Coastal Grooves, an album which still keeps the buzz around it. After three very good singles, Dinner, Sutphin Boulevard and Forget It, he releases his forth single Champagne Coast, while a few days ago a new music video for it was published on the website of New York Times. Famous stylist Halley Wollens (M.I.A., Rye Rye, Sleigh Bells, MNDR), does the direction and styling, while Andreas “Nout” Schmidt did the animation for the video. A very smart combination of retro kitsch aesthetics with Second Life-type graphics and collages of images from old interior design magazines and real teenager’s walls they found on flickr, results to the most aesthetically original music video we’ve seen in a long time, while the décor in each girl’s bedroom represents a list of artists work admired by Blood Orange himself such as Ed Ruscha, Morris Louis, Sonia Delaunay and Helen Frankenthaler.

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Europavox Festival 2012

Text by Elsa

This May from the 25th to the 27th, Europavox Festival will be held in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Bands and artists from all over Europe such as The Hives, Dionysos, Shaka Ponk, The Kills, Agoria and many more are invited and promise to amuse their audience.
For those that are not already informed, the Europavox Festival happens every year since 2006. Once again in 2012, the line-up will gather well known artists of the European scene who are going to satisfy every music taste; rock, folk, electro, hip-hop and many others. One of the most important aims according to organizers and supporters is to bring people and cultures together. As a great European Festival of modern music, Europavox is becoming more and more famous in the cultural landscape and throughout the years has attracted a large amount of people.
OZON Raw will be there in order to transmit you images and the atmosphere of the festival.
For more information visit Europavox’s website.

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Turner Prize 2012

Paul Noble

The Turner Prize is a contemporary art award that was set up in 1984 to celebrate new developments in contemporary art. It is awarded each year to a British artist for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding. Nominations are invited each year and the prize is judged by an independent jury that changes annually. The four shortlisted artists present works in a show normally held at Tate Britain before the winner is announced in December. Artists are not judged on their show at Tate. The decision is based on the work for which they were nominated.

Luke Fowler

The four artists that have been nominated for this year Turner prize are: video installation artist Elizabeth Price, fine art draftsman Paul Noble, filmmaker Luke Fowler and performance artist Spartacus Chetwynd. All four have already began the preparation work for the Turner prize exhibition, which opens at Tate Britain on 2 October, 2012. The winner will be announced on 3 December, 2012.

Spartacus Chetwynd

Elizabeth Price

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4FASHIONSHAKE The Story So Far…Video

4FASHIONSHAKE, OZON magazine’s most cherished project, kicked off in March 2010 and continues successfully ever since. It is a bi-annual event, based in Athens, connecting the most promising new comers and established creatives from the contemporary fashion and art world. The vision behind 4FASHIONSHAKE, the collective excitement of the participants as well as the overall atmosphere, all together  wrapped up in one video. For those who aren’t familiar with the occasion, this feature video is a must-watch. Meanwhile OZON team is awaiting with bells and whistles for 4FASHIONSHAKE VI, settled for November 2012.

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Flippinradio O Three: Summer is Near

Summer is near, the sun’s appearances are more frequent and the only thing we want to do is listen to some summer tunes. Thus, we found the opportunity to present an exclusive mixtape Victor Ferreira, aka Sun Glitters, created for Flippinradio’s listeners. The mixtape was generated in response to the artist’s appearance at Six Dogs a couple of days ago and the only thought in our mind is that S.G has so much to offer to the chillwave scene.

Back in 2010 Labyrinth Ear had released their “Oak” EP and gained critical acclaim. Now “Apparitions” EP is out and available for streaming via Bandcamp. We’ve chosen “Humble Bones” video and waiting for more information about their upcoming appearance in Athens.

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