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Bunker buster

A film by Yosef Joseph Dadoune
With the participation of Alexis Vassiliou
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The title of the work by Joseph Dadoune "Bunker Buster" refers to the American bomb Buster, able to penetrate concrete six meters deep and ground to thirty meters.

The installation of Joseph Dadoune includes a black and white high definition film, twenty two minutes long, that was shot entirely in the War Museum of Athens.

In this project the artist invited Alexia Vassiliou in a conversation-action that combines fragmented speech, singing, movement and improvisation, elements that cause new "abstractive" situations in a shifted "other" space-time, with an interactive catalytic character of the release of primal characteristics and behaviors.

Bunker Buster soundtrack. Track 1.

A complex oedipal relationship is established between the two entities/spirits. Wandering in the space they avoid each other, they are met without ever meeting.

The monstrous entity suddenly places the crazy dictator′s hand on her belly, a point of reference to fertilization and the power of woman′s nature, able to penetrate “enchantingly” in the system of power of authority and in the hierarchical relationships of the imposition of power of authority in the current social and political reality, a thought that occupies the multidimensional work of Joseph Dadoune over the last few years.

Bunker Buster soundtrack. Ensemble Outcries

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Album: Score no.1 in Three moments of Origin

This dangerous contradictory sharp-edged relationship of avoidance and simultaneous penetration is strengthened by the transcendental schizophrenic situation of the “blind” artist/dictator (his eyes are voluntarily covered) who crosses the space enclave in a reflected space-time of wandering, of confinement, of terror and of an agonizing search of catharsis.

Bunker Buster soundtrack. Temps orginelles II

Joseph Dadoune, through a “laborious” and long-lasting creative process of the treatment of film (change of color from colored to black and white, chronological shift of actions, interruption of linear narration, expulsion of concrete elements of natural architectural space, and utilization of special effects), presents the analytic conceptual dimension of created cinematographic reality (the film is based on the interjection of the three basic colors white, black, and red): the liberating nature of the natural and intellectual light against the terror of repetitive confinement that beckon the redemptive intervention in a space-time without beginning or end (the viewer may watch the film non-sequentially).

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Alexia Vasiliou

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I was born in Famagusta, Cyprus on February the 5th 1964.After the 14th of July 1974 coup d'etat ,and the 20th of July 1974 Turkish invasion ,displaced ,we went to live in Larnaca ,Cyprus.I was always singing and took classical singing and piano lessons.After the 1981 Eurovision song contest in which i took part ,I went to Boston Massachussetts to study Music,Thanks to my parents,at the Berklee college of Music.While at Berklee I was a member of the Gospel choir there ,till my graduation in 1985.While sophomore ,I sang in a CBS album singing the theme song:''I am Siam'',written by Brian Rothschild.

When I was in my last semester,I sang at two amazing concerts by Chick Corea and Gayle Moran,held at the Berklee Performance center. About 9 years later ,I collaborated with Chick in my Jazz album,''In a Jazz mood''One of my teachers was great vibraphonist:Gary Burton.

After graduation in '85 ,I stayed in Boston ,taught at a community college and then moved to New York where I lived for 2 years.I was part of several groups,jazz quartets,fusion bands and we used to play in the Village and around Manhattan.

In 1987 ,i left New York to go to Cyprus to take part at the Eurovision song contest with the song''Aspro-Mavro'' by my friends ,Antros and Maria Papapavlou. The single became platinum in Scandinavia and it was the main reason for my moving to Athens Greece to start making albums.Thanks to my Dear friend Makis Achladiotes a fellow student at Berklee and a sound engineer,i signed my second record deal with Polygram then,Universal now.

My first album was composed by Costas Haritodiplomenos and the lyrics by George Mitsiggas.I sang with:Mimis Plessas,Loukilla Carrer,Spyro Pazio,Costa Tourna, George Hadjinassios, Costa Kapnisi ,Maki Delaporta,Rena Vlahopoulou ,Zoe Kouroukli,Vlassi Bonatso,MILVA,Hristo Filippou,Antrea Parasho,Costa Fasola, Mario Meletiou ,Clare Angelidou,Anna Synodynou ,Costa Kazako,Despina Bebedeli,Eleni Hadjiargyri, Themis Bazaka, Dimitri Potamiti, Stamati Kraounaki, Chick Corea ,Gayle Moran ,John Patitucci ,Gary Novak ,Antoni Donchev ,Peter Massink,Hristo Hristofi,Fergus Currie, Mikis Theodorakis, Andreas Vollenweider,Costa Cacoyianni,Aristedi Mytara.

In 2000,i decided i wanted to re-define how i wanted to Be musically and otherwise.I compose Music ,i write lyrics,narrative, poetry.I've taken courses in Creative writing and Feminist studies with Christiana Lambrinides ,in Athens,since 2000.My triple album RebE ,of which i composed the Music and lyrics will be released in 2 months,worldwide .RebE is made of songs,experiments in narratives,improvisation and orchestral Music.RebE contains all my influences in Music ,writings. theme of my songs:Self-dialogues.For RebE ,i collaborated with great Musicians and sound engineers: with Iosif Kefalas pianist,composer,arranger,programmer,sound engineer with Fergus Currie-double bassist ,composer,orchestrator,maestro ,for the orchestrations with the 100 -piece orchestras and smaller ensembles that were recorded in Bradislava. Antoni Donchev-pianist,arranger,orchestrator,maestro ,on all pieces recorded in Sofia Bulgaria Vassilis Stergiou -classical guitarist,drummer,bassist,keyboardist,composer,sound engineer ,on all pieces recorded in Thessaloniki ,Northern Greece with Alexis Gikas,an excellent sound engineer ,in recording and mixing live or in the studio and just anywhere,wherever the artist desires,with no limits!

Another album will also be released in the next 2 months on which I sing ,a jazz album by my dear friend and great horn player,composer,orchestrator ,Peter Massink ,on which I also wrote the lyrics ,on 9 out of 11 pieces.The album's title is :''BIRDS HAVE TO FLY''.It was recorded in Munich and Athens. One more album will be released by the beginning of 2007,an improvisational work between my friend Ronan Chris Murphy- guitarist,composer,producer,sound engineer- and I,recorded May of 2006 in Culver city ,Los Angeles.These albums will be released by the only record company that knows how to show respect towards artists:By Athens Greece based, Track 7.

Track 7 has many activities,one of which is the Arts laboratorium. Our first project is a double project curated by Dr.Sania Papa ,in which two artists ,Anisa Ashkar a Palestinian visual artist known for her Performance and Israeli visual artist ,Joseph Dadoune a painter and film-maker(his latest film was filmed and presented in the Louvre) , albeit the present state of their country's relations- conflict ,they Love and respect each other. I was asked by both to collaborate with them on two amazing projects.Israel-Palestine-Cyprus. With Anisa we will do a joined performance reenacting and altering ,the myth of Medusa ,in which our friend ,dancer and SOMATIC RELEASE instructor ,Michalis Elpidoforou will also take part as Perseus and in which i will sing and co-perform. With Joseph,we did 3,three films: in the War museum in Athens, in an art deco porn cinema in Athens and in our Art space.The double project wil take place in our Athens Art space in January 2007

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