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Don Kapot
Greece, Belgium
Viktor Perdieus - saxophone
Giotis Damianidis - bass
João Lobo- drums
“It is not the depth beneath me, but the height above me that frightens me. A reverse vertigo,” reads the poem “Kaleidoscopio” by Argyris Hionis. The Greek-Belgian trio Don Kapot adopts this intellectual concept by the poet who fled into exile to escape dictatorship as the structural framework for their latest album. This “reverse vertigo” is “Antistrofos Illigos” in Greek, the album’s title. The second album from this “lifeboat of free jazz, Afrobeat, and Krautpunk”, steered by Giotis Damianidis on bass and guitar, Viktor Perdieus on baritone saxophone and keyboards, and drummer Jakob Warmenbol, is a radical yet deeply poetic, often repetitive, and hypnotic improvisation that “exudes a certain aesthetic radicalism that won't appeal to everyone”, as the band knows. “But this kind of statement is perhaps more necessary today than ever before, as the very idea of freedom is under threat.”
Viktor Perdieus - saxophone
Giotis Damianidis - bass
João Lobo- drums
“It is not the depth beneath me, but the height above me that frightens me. A reverse vertigo,” reads the poem “Kaleidoscopio” by Argyris Hionis. The Greek-Belgian trio Don Kapot adopts this intellectual concept by the poet who fled into exile to escape dictatorship as the structural framework for their latest album. This “reverse vertigo” is “Antistrofos Illigos” in Greek, the album’s title. The second album from this “lifeboat of free jazz, Afrobeat, and Krautpunk”, steered by Giotis Damianidis on bass and guitar, Viktor Perdieus on baritone saxophone and keyboards, and drummer Jakob Warmenbol, is a radical yet deeply poetic, often repetitive, and hypnotic improvisation that “exudes a certain aesthetic radicalism that won't appeal to everyone”, as the band knows. “But this kind of statement is perhaps more necessary today than ever before, as the very idea of freedom is under threat.”
