Year in Review - What happened in 2016
- by Louvana Records
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- 01 Jan, 2017
Lefkosia Loop Festival 2016
Lefkosia Loop Festival 2016 took place on the 5th and 6th of January 2016, celebrating its 5th birthday and hosting twelve acts from Cyprus, Greece, England and Poland for a crowd of more than 300 viewers. The festival is unique in its kind in that it has been offering an exclusive preview of the live-looping technique every year since its begginings.
Watch videos from this year's festival below:
Lefteris Moumtzis – Now Happiness
On the 16th of January, we released Lefteris Moumtzis' first solo album titled "Now Happiness", which was then presented live in Cyprus, Greece, Germany, France and England to great reception. It has recently been voted as the 4th best album of 2016 by greek website Avopolis. In May, it was also released on vinyl.
Watch the official video of first single here:
Βelua – As Good a Time as Any
On the 28th of the same month, Louvana Records released Belua's debut album titled ‘As Good a Time as Any’, which the band presented live at Enallax in Nicosia on the same night. The album was later performed in Athens and on further concerts in Cyprus.
Listen to the whole album here:
Live at the Library – Amalgamation Choir
On the 3rd of March, the second Live at the Library series was released, featuring Amalgamation Choir, directed by Vasiliki Anastasiou. The series showcases four songs, three re-arrangements of traditional songs and an original written by Giorgos Kalogirou. The series was a great success and has reached thousands of viewers on a global level.
Watch it below:
‘Before Fengaros
Vol.1, Vol.2 andVol.3’
In June and July, three promotional concerts took place to "warm up" the crowd for the coming Fengaros Festival. The events were organised in collaboration with Bank of Cyprus' Cultural Centre and the festival Faneromeni 16, and were presented at the foundation's' outdoor space. The artists that took part were Belua, The Low Spark and Vasiliki Anastasiou with pianist Andreas Panteli.
Fengaros Music Village 2016
Fengaros Music Village took place at the end of July for the third consecutive year, offering five days filled with music, theatre and storytelling workshops, free concerts, lectures and presentations at the beautiful village of Kato Drys. The organisation had its most successful year, hosting 75 students from Cyprus, Greece, France, Germany, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, and 11 instructors from Cyprus, Greece and England, slowly building up an international artistic community.
Fengaros Festival 2016
Fengaros Festival came right after Fengaros Music Village, lasting three days, and hosting, on three stages, more than 40 acts from Cyprus, Greece, England and Israel in the warm setting of Kato Drys. More than 4000 guests from Cyprus and Europe attended the three-day event, proving once more that it's one of the highlights of the Cypriot summer.
Watch the Aftermovie of this year's festival:
‘Α week at the village 2016’
On the 24th of September, a lovely outdoor event was hosted at Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, where the latest mini-documentary "Fengaros Music Village 2016 - A week at the village" was shown. The evening also featured a perfrormance by the band Fuzz Bus, which later became a jam session with lots of Music Village student musicians and other guests musicians.
Watch the documentary below:
Sotires - Sotires
Finally, on the 28th of November, Louvana Records released its 3rd release for 2016 titled Sotires, a new band, which is a result of the collaboration between Greek and Cypriot musicians. The album was presented live in December in Athens, Thessaloniki, Limassol and Nicosia, after two videoclips were released. The third edition of the series "Live at the Library" featuring Sotires will be released on the 15th of January 2017.
Watch the video for the second single here:
Most of all, we'd like to thank the audience that supports our every effort.
Have a happy new year!
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Louvana Records deals mainly with the organisation of festivals, concerts and workshops which revolve around music. The company also deals with the production and release of music albums by local and international artists, following through the stages of recording until their release and promotion. In the past few years Louvana also creates and releases music video as a means of artist promotion. Totaling the release of seven albums and two performance video series, Louvana is set to release 2 more albums and 2 more performance videos in 2017
Once in a lifetime, you’ll experience a pandemic. Once in a blue moon, you’ll have a chance to escape to a secluded island. Once on a red Thursday, as the local saying in Cyprus goes, you’ll be in a situation with a group of complete strangers, fully immersed in the sparks of creation flying forth. On A Red Thursday (9 March) is the product of just such a gathering of musicians from a multitude of backgrounds, journeys, skills and preferences. Their first single, ‘ Until We Meet Again’ , performed by Eurotoire team members Panayi and Jolien marks the beginning of sharing their experiences of stepping outside their comfort zones with the world. Following this first offering is alternative RnB number ‘ So Lonely ’ (3 February) performed by Maris Pihlap. ‘ Figures ’ (25 February) is the final single before the album’s release and sees Raveloe and Tamara van Esch punk out in a commentary on obstacles womxn face.
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In a songwriting programme piloted by Cypriot label, Louvana Records called Eurotoire, songwriters, producers, and session musicians from ten countries were invited to gather in Cyprus to test their limits, trust strangers, and allow their artistry to merge. Their initial week-long meeting began on a Thursday in June at Studio eleven63 in the island’s capital of Nicosia and blossomed into fifteen demos. After another two writing and recording sessions in July and September, the tracks bloomed into the Eurotoire team members’ fully-fledged album. Now they’re using On A Red Thursday to spread the word about the power of surrendering to creative instinct and collaborating with the unknown. On 13 February, the Louvana Records YouTube channel premiered a short documentary created by all eighteen artists with a single camera shared between them. Clips shot by the artists were edited together by videographer Antonis Pouliasis to depict their journey from complete strangers to collaborators as they untie forces to create an album together.