Mihalis Kalkanis Group

The double bass player Mihalis Kalkanis stands out among the representatives of the new generation of Greek jazz musicians. He comes from a musical family and participates in the most important forms of the genre. He is a particularly daring and creative musician and composer, successfully experimenting and offering us unpredictable music. He dresses his grandmother’s traditional singing with electronic music and he does field recordings in immigrant religious ceremonies, giving us an amalgam of the world’s sounds in the album “World Echoes in Athens”.

The live performances of the band travel the audience to a world where elements from East and West, old values with contemporary ideas and experimentation are mixed in a magical way. This has already been reflected through its special performances in the most important Greek festivals (Athens Jazz Festival, Summer Nostos Festival / SNFCC, Athens Epidaurus Festival etc) as well as in Spain (Palma Jazz Festival) and in Cyprus (Aglan Jazz Festival).

The band's new album ‘Emotions’, released last June by United We Fly, was recorded live at the Megaron Athens Concert Hall and has already received rave reviews.

Media for the new album ‘Emotions':
- "Its sound world is strong and special, full of emotions, images, colours and disparate musical elements." news247.gr
- "..a masterful soundtrack that overflows with aesthetics." depart.gr
- "The harmonious coexistence of acoustic instruments with electronic and processed sounds is highlighted even more by the live recording of the album, to
whose sonic world you get addicted and want to listen to it again and again..." efsyn.gr