MELINA PAXINOS, A YOUNG SAXOPHONIST and COMPOSER, COMBINES MODERN JAZZ WITH HER GREEK ROOTS in HER PIECES. BORN IN HAMBURG AND LIVING IN BERLIN FOR ALMOST SIX YEARS, SHE STUDIED MUSIC PRODUCTION – ARRANGING AND COMPOSITION AT SRH HOCHSCHULE DER POPULAEREN KUENSTE AND GRADUATED WITH A BACHELOR OF ARTS. A FUSION BEHIND,ODD METERS’, MEDITERRANEAN MELODIES, AND GROOVYRIFFS BUILD THE FOUNDATION FOR HER COMPOSITIONS –,,GREEKJAZZ”. MELINAS’ FIRST ALBUM, “CIRCLE of ODDNESS”, (2018) ILLUSTRATES AND LINKS THE ODD AND EVEN METERS, AND ALSO LINKS P = 3.14 BY ARCHIMEDES. HER FATHER ALWAYS OPENED HER SUITCASE, AND TO WHOM THIS ALLBUM IS DEDICATED. INSPIRED BY THE ATHENIAN VIBE, SHE RECORDED HER SECOND ALBAUM,,ATHENS”, (2019) IN HER HOMETOWN ATHENS, IN THE SIERRA STUDIOS, AND NAME IT AFTER IT. ROSS DALY WAS THE SPECIAL GOST ON THIS ALBUM. HE ACCOMPANED THE BAND WITH HIS CRETAN LYRA. BEYOND THE JAZZ CONTEXT MELINA AND HER SAXOPHONE ACCOMPANIED ARTISTS SUCH AS KAT FRANKIE AT THE POP-KULTUR-FESTIVAL (2018) OR THE BAND DOPE EST DOPE IN A LIVE SESSION FOR RED BULL MUSIC IN LONDON (2018). HER AND HER CREW TESTED OMINCAM 360 AT THE FRAUENHOFER HEINRICH–HERTZ INSTITUTE BERLIN ON A BOAT TRIP THROUGH TH THE SPREE. from www.melinapaxinos.com
