Lena Platonos in Montreal
Lena Platonos, the pioneering Greek electronic musician, will be in Montreal. The charismatic artist is invited to a series of events at the International Music Festival, presented by POP Montreal, the Hellenic Community of Greater Montreal and other leading organizations.
What: Film Screening ΛΠ [LP]
When: Thursday, September 27, 2018, at 20h45
Where: Cinéma Moderne
5150 St Laurent Blvd, Montreal, QC H2T 1R8
ΛΠ [LP]
Cristo Petrou | Greece, 2018 | 75 min
Presented by POP Montreal, by Never Apart and the Hellenic Community of Greater Montreal
A film about the pioneering Greek electronic musician Lena Platonos, ΛΠ [LP] looks back at the artist’s monumental 1980s output, including the records Sun Masks (1984), Gallop (1985), and Lepidoptera (1986). The film features archival footage and interviews with Platonos, who is still active today. The film also incorporates interviews and remixes of Platonos’ tracks by international fans of her work, including Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor and Lena Willikens. Platonos was born on Crete and grew up in Athens. She began learning piano at the age of two and became a professional pianist before the age of eighteen. Soon afterwards, she received scholarships to study in Vienna and Berlin, where she was exposed to jazz, rock, and Middle Eastern music. For those unfamiliar with her music, Platonos has been called Greece’s answer to Laurie Anderson. Platonos’ work is currently receiving renewed international attention following multiple reissues by Dark Entries Records. ΛΠ is proudly presented in conjunction with a performance by Platonos at this year’s edition.
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What: Concert evening with Lena Platonos
When: Friday, September 28, 2018
Where: Rialto Hall
5723 Park Ave, Montreal, QC H2V 4H2
Presented by POP Montreal, MUTEK Montréal, Never Apart and the Hellenic Community of Greater Montreal
Λένα Πλάτωνος (Lena Platonos) is a Greek musician, pianist and electronic music composer. She was one of the pioneers in the Greek electronic music scene of the 80s and remains active until the present day.
She has contributed much to the Greek electronic music scene with records such as Μάσκες ηλίου (Maskes Iliou), Γκάλοπ (Gallοp), Λεπιδόπτερα (Lepidoptera) which were made exclusively of analog electronic musical instruments and narration of the Greek -and often of her personal- reality.
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What: Free event! – Lena Platonos in Conversation with Leticia Trandafir
When: Saturday, September 29, 2018, at 16h00
Where: Never Apart
7049 St Urbain St, Montreal, QC H2S 3H4
Presented by POP Montreal, Never Apart and the Hellenic Community of Greater Montreal
Composer, pianist, and electronic musician Lena Platonos is one of the most highly regarded Greek cultural figures of the twentieth century. After getting her musical start on the piano, she embraced new electronic techniques in the early 1980s that solidified her reputation as a true creative visionary. Platanos continued to release material throughout the following decades, firmly establishing herself as a prolific and boundary-pushing artist in the Greek music world; however, it wasn’t until 2015 that she received international recognition thanks to Dark Entries Records’ reissue of her 1985 album Galop. Building on this growing critical and public acclaim, the POP Symposium is thrilled to present this legendary artist in Montreal for the first time. >> softcoresoft (Leticia Trandafir) is a DJ, producer, radio host and cultural programmer focused on rave music. Music director at Never Apart.
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