the fuzzy nerds

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The fuzzy nerds is a post alternative and a quite experimental indie band that has released so far 4 albums (bloody fat 1998, a thought about princes 2000, happy fuzzy thinkin' 2007, mirror phase 2009) and an ep. (Lucifair 2003) for the fuckingreat, grabber records and tmc music respectively.
Formed in 1994, they consist of three members:

- Petros Vyzoukis
guitars/vocals/melody horn/noise/programming/toy piano/piano
- Maria Choleva
bass guitar/vocals/guitars
- Kostas Dimitriou
drums/pads/programming/xylophone


..some fuzzy talk..

“..the fuzzy nerds are better than the 70% of the greek bands that have a record release in the market at the moment and they are better than many bands in the world. The band has verified its reputation which it carries with it some years now, a reputation that says that this band is a quite unique one. Without overreacting, they are great… their influences are detectable, however they don’t overshadow the band’s personality – and what a personality! It was perhaps the first time that I liked that much unknown to me songs. It was as if I had been waiting a whole lifetime to listen to them, it was as if the time had stopped and everything was rolling around those guys… The revelation of the evening by far!”
( Difwno magazine, July 2000, battle of the bands live review, Spilios Lambropoulos)
“ …you would never call their presence on stage nerveless… The truth is that you wouldn’t expect from self-taught musicians to hear tunes able to make you fly. The fuzzy nerds have come to prove a rule wrong.. They succeed in passing their passion through the audience in the most natural way.”
(klik magazine, Sept. 2000, Melissanthi Mauridou)
“ While I’m writing these lines, I have already enjoyed the fuzzy nerds brand new work, a real diamond which deserves not to stay unexplored.”
( mirrorball zine, issue 3, 2001, taken from a fuzzy nerds interview, Theodosis Michos)
“…having contemporary influences they reflect the echoes of the experimental pop of the 00’s… and they work on them under their serious personal interventions. And it is those interventions that give on this band’s work the identity and a prominent position in what is going on in our country.”
(mic.gr, 2002, a thought about princes review)
“ ……the lucifair e.p. contains 4 tracks which I’m sure that will make everyone who loves that kind of sound look desperately for everything that has ever been recorded by those guys. I know, I know that I sound too excited! But you know what? I am!”
(atraktos.net 2003, lucifair review, Vasilis Sintos)
“ 4 tracks, one of them on a radio edit version, which, using the plainness and the frugality of a first dish, leave a sweet taste in our mouths and at the same time they create much anticipation for the next.”
(avopolis.gr 2004, lucifair review, Paris Papavlassopoulos)
“ …especially their second and third song may have been the highlight of the whole evening. Their firm construction, pop melodies and guitar driven bursts were definitely worthy of their reputation.”
(avopolis.gr, 2004, for the fuzzy nerds appearance as special guests for blackfield at Rodon Athens)
“ Except for the powerful indie rock full of captivating melodies and guitar guided elevations, in their new album they try themselves on post rock pathways as well, and they succeed in it very well…their new album justifies them, it finds them having been advanced and it proves that they had fairly provoked quite an impression a few years ago.”
(pop & rock/rock n’ roll magazine, Mar. 2007, happy fuzzy thinkin’ review, Dimitris Argyropoulos)
“ The fuzzy nerds are in constant search and they don’t rely on musically. With “happy fuzzy thinkin’” they create their most complete work.. Specifically, their 11 minutes long “little black fairy”, one of the best songs that I have listened to this year, or the “project no 9”, prove their ability in composing..”
( Sonik magazine, Mar. 2007, happy fuzzy thinkin’ review, Gerasimos Papalambrou)
“ What is changing here is the maturity by which the fuzzy nerds fulfill this sound journey. There is advancing in their expressive means comparing to their last work “Lucifair”, while there is even more independence and their inspiration reaches even higher levels..”
(avopolis.gr, 2007, happy fuzzy thinkin’ review, Charis Symvoulidis)
“ At the beginning you will find them “difficult”, in the end you will find yourself captivated..”
(mic.gr, 2007, the best English-spoken, for the track “happy”, Aris Karambeazis)
“We are treated to some particularly chilling vocals at the beginning of “Sonic Blue”, and although there are guitars and other sounds, it's the drums played in a military marching kind of way that adds to the overall flavour of the sound. I love when the heavier vibrant guitar licks kick in after a break in vocals, before combining with all the other elements. I'd like to say that I find the range and tonality of the vocals quite impressive and once again find that I have to say that each song brings a very atmospheric edge to the listener, it's like your not just listening to a song your getting an experience.”
(infused zine, Feb. 2007, happy fuzzy thinkin’ review, Gavin H.)
b - side (taken from happy fuzzy thinkin' album)


FUZZY-BIO

Formed in 1994 in Ioannina (Greece) by Andreas and Petros Vyzoukis (guitars, vocals), along with Kostas Dimitriou on drums (in the first original line-up) and the participation of several other musicians on drums and bass. Their first recording took place on a demo containing 17 of their songs, which, however, was never completed. Andreas’s death in September of ’95 ceased every activity of the band.
One year later the band was formed once again carrying out several gigs in lots of different regions of Greece, next to bands like Bokomolech, Closer, Lefki Symphonia etc. and recording two limited edition albums (“bloody fat” ‘98/“a thought about princes” 2000) till the end of 2000, which were released by their own "fuckingreat? crew" and sold out in two week's time. During that time (from 1998 onwards) Maria Choleva on bass guitar/vocals, Alexis Stamatiadis on guitar and Diogenis Chantzopoulos on drums had already joined the band. Their next work (“lucifair”), produced by George Priniotakis, was released on November of 2003 by grabber records, and managed to spread even more the band's great reputation as it also contained the classic now fuzzy radio hit“anaesthesia”. Some of their recordings appeared in fanzines and music magazines compilations (i.e. “To pligma”, mirrorball, Pop & rock/rock ‘n roll etc.), while “anaesthesia” was chosen by director Graziella Kanellou among others in her film soundtrack “the approaching of the hour”.
Since September of 2003 the fuzzy nerds move on as a trio, appearing live in venues of Athens mostly, having also appeared live as special guests next to blackfield at Rodon live (November of 2004), as well as next to iLiKeTRAiNS at Gagarin 205 (January 2008). Having received the most warm welcome and reviews from audience and music press for both their recordings (i.e. atraktos.net, avopolis.gr, mic.gr etc.) as well as their live performances (mag.“Klik”, Sept. 2000, “O tempora o mores ‘zine” issue 2, “mirrorball” issue 3, “In rock” fall 2000, mag. “Difono”, July 2000, Pop & rock/rock ‘n roll mag., Nov. ‘03, mama steile lefta iss.34, sense ‘zine, rockroll.gr, avopolis.gr etc.) the fuzzy nerds will complete in June of 2005 the recording of “happy fuzzy thinkin’”, with George Priniotakis in production which was released in the first days of January of 2007 by tmc music. Two fuzzy tracks, “since you fell” and “just another day” which were both taken out of that fuzzy album “ happy fuzzy thinkin’ ”, managed to reach the final top 20 of the coca-cola soundwave charts of 2007, as they were voted by the audience. During the summer of 2008 the band finished their new album "mirror phase" with Clive Martin in production, a well known british producer for his work with The Cure, U2, Sting, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Tears for Fears, Mark Almond, Hunters and Collectors, Crowded House, Midnight Oil, Puressence, Echobelly, Mansun, Les Negresses Vertes and Raining Pleasure among many others. "Mirror phase" originally released by TMC music on the 24th of November 2008. The Fuzzy Nerds is the first band ever that released their new album along with their last one, not only in the usual cd form or in mp3 form, but also in a totally new format presented for the very first time in music industry and developed by TMC Publishing and Adobe Systems. The Fuzzy Nerds Digital Album introduces a new digital format, a totally new application that works offline as data are included in the software. The application is distributed FREE to the fans establishing a new relationship and it includes: - Full Quality Tracks from the last album "mirror phase" (2009) and "happy fuzzy thinkin'" (2007) - Videos - Photos - Free update for every new content (music - news - videos) artist has come up with... The Fuzzy Nerds Digital Album originally released on the 9th of February 2009... Free Download @ http://www.heedia.com .... enjoy the nerdland!

contact:
mail: info@fuzzynerds.com & the_fuzzynerds@yahoo.com
web: www.fuzzynerds.com & www.tmcmusicgroup.com
fuzzy sites: http://www.myspace.com/thefuzzynerds http://www.facebook.com/home.php/pages/the-fuzzy-nerds/17853404260?ref=ts http://www.facebook.com/home.php/group.php?gid=33675308676&ref=ts
releases:
a. 94 - 95 demo ( previously unreleased )
b. 96 demo, the fuzzy nerds
c. 97 demo, demo-lition
d. 98 demo, nerdland
e. bloody fat (the fuckingreat crew - 1998)
f. a thought about princes (the fuckingreat crew - 2000)
g. lucifair (grabber records - 2003)
h. happy fuzzy thinkin' (tmc music / psycho puppie rec. - 2007)
i. mirror phase (tmc music / psycho puppie rec. - 2009)

compilations:
a. "129 A.i.d." & "bleeding tension" (taken from "bloody fat" for the pligma 'zine compilation of May '98)
b. "megafuck" (taken from a thought about princes for the mirrorball 'zine compilation of 2001, iss.3)
c. "anaesthesia" (taken from "lucifair" for the pop & rock/rock n' roll mag. compilation of Sept. 2003)
d. "anaesthesia"(taken from "lucifair" for the soundtrack of the film "the approaching of the hour" shown at theatres in 2005)
e. "anaesthesia" (piano version) (taken from "lucifair" for the compilation made by my wet Calvin for a video presentation of the department of architecture of the University of Thessalia, Fall of 2005)
f. "happy?" (taken from " happy fuzzy thinkin' " for the Sonik magazine compilation of Nov. 2006)
g. "anaesthesia" (taken from "lucifair" for the film "the approaching of the hour" which was released in dvd form by sonicplayground records, December of 2007)
h. "since you fell" (taken from " happy fuzzy thinkin' " for the soundtrack of the film "the approaching of the hour" which was released in audio cd form by sonicplayground records, December of 2007)
i. “faithful” (taken from "mirror phase" for the Muzine 07 magazine compilation, Jan. - Mar. 2009)
j. “lying underground (my Wet Leon strings mix)” for the e-magazine postwave.gr compilation “Audiobook 5” / April 2009. “Lying underground” original mix appears in the 4th Fuzzy Nerds album “mirror phase” (tmc music / psycho puppie rec. - 2009)

undefined project no 9 - live @ gagarin 205 Athens (25-01-08)

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Member Since:

March 12, 2006

Members:

Petros Vyzoukis - guitars/vocals/melody horn/noise/programming/toy piano/piano

Maria Choleva - bass guitar/vocals/guitars

Kostas Dimitriou - drums/pads/programming/xylophone


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Influences:

Sonic Youth, Mogwai, Sigur ros, dEUS, Radiohead, Pixies, Placebo, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Depeche mode, Do make say think, Godspeed you black emperor, Notwist, Blonde redhead, Pj Harvey, Jesus and Mary chain, Bjork, Archive,The Sound, Gwei-lo, Stereolab, Portishead, Muse, Piano magic

Sounds Like:

fuzzy tunes stuck in the brain..

Record Label:

the fuckingreat, grabber records, tmc music