Greg Georgiades Online

Welcome to Greg Georgiades Online!

It is a pleasure to welcome you to the official 'Greg Hadjiyorki Georgiades' website...a site filled with interesting facts and a variety of musical content representing Greg's wide approach to music through the use of stringed instruments including electric guitars, steel string acoustic guitar, nylon string flamenco guitar, bouzouki, oud (North African fretless lute), oudtar (hybrid guitar/oud cross) and sarod (fretless steel string Indian classical instrument).

There are also examples of this adventurous attitude in the many collaborations that Greg has been involved with over the years up to the present. These include recordings on both CD and DVD of his own compositions and stylistic contributions on many of South Africa's top artist releases including works by Simphiwe Dana, Miriam Makeba, Madala Kunene, Jeff Maluleke, McCoy Mrubata, Velli Shabangu, Choppa, Tony Cox, Syd Kitchen, Thapelo Khomo, Anna Davel, The Aquarian Quartet, The Jazz Hounds, The Mutant Harmony Trio, The Sur Bandits, Ashish Joshi, Marc Duby, Strings & Skins and metal group Not My Dog.

Greg, accompanied by Ashish Joshi on tabla and percussion, has also done some really interesting live work with DJ acts such as Crushed & Sorted, DJ Bob in Decks Strings & Skins, as well as The Blunted Stuntman in shows around South Africa.

Greg has further contributed to the South African music scene by performing live with many of the artists listed above and also with international names such as French trumpeter ERIC TRUFFAZ, Indo-French sitarist BRIGITTE MENON with her group MUKTA, FETHI TABET the Algerian oud player and vocalist, French alternative jazz group NO JAZZ, renowned USA guitarist BOB BROZMAN, and RENE LACAILLE of Reunion.

Feel free to wander around the site and enjoy what is on offer from a visual and musical point of view. There is also the opportunity of ordering music CD's/DVD's or just enjoy the window shopping experience while finding out more about this 'evergreen' contributor to the Southern African music scene for the last 30 years.
'FUN & SPIRIT!'

Newsletter -Dec '09 --Jan '10

Submitted by webmaster on Sun, 01/10/2010 - 13:08.

Greg's News

It's been a while since my last newsletter and here we are at the beginning of the new year already. This is a good sign showing that I was kinda busy AND all over the place which, in itself, is quite a combination of time-slurping factors. Yep 2009 was a Goodyear ...I know that, because I got more mileage out of it than usual ...with touring all over Southern Africa as well as shows in Algeria and the Seychelles. While at home-base in Pretoria, in the state of Gauteng, South Africa...I had kept myself involved in writing some music for a feature film called 'Long Street'. A beautifully filmed human drama that was shot in Cape Town and premiered at the Durban Film Festival during July '09. Produced and directed by Reville Fox and Florian Schattauer, this is a stunning piece of work and it was a pleasurable challenge to have had the opportunity to write music for it. I also did a wonderfull collaborative album with the legendary Steve Newman, fiery fingered guitarist of TANANAS fame and the amazing percussionist, Ashish Joshi. The album titled 'IN THE CLOUDS' is all about storytelling with sounds from acoustic instruments such as, nylon flamenco guitar, oud, mbiratar, bouzouki, oudtar, soprano guitar, tabla, darbuka, zarb, bongos, santoor ...and lotsa toys. This album is available at any of our shows and on the internet from www.thatgig.com.

In between touring to promote the album, I busied myself with writing some material for the new GORDON'S SUITCASE album which should be released sometime in March '10. Now this is a hugely fresh electric Afro world music group which is making waves wherever they perform. Ofcourse, I have not ignored the VIVID AFRIKA group with McCoy Mrubata, nor my duo STRINGS&SKINS project with Ashish Joshi, both of which will have new albums out during the first half of the year.