HOWARD’S UNIVERSE – FIRST 5 TRACKS BASS RECORDING SESSIONS WITH KOSTAS DOMENIKIOTIS – MAY JUNE 2022
It takes a long time for people like me to realize the way they conceive their creative process.
The Hard and Heavy Rock sound has always been one of the main elements of my musical personality, but I have been withholding this part of my musical expression for very long and the main reason as I now understand was that I have been saving it up for when the band of KONAN would finally get back together to create material again.
After the KONAN Reunion in 2013 (when we performed two Live concerts at the Eightball in Thessaloniki) there was determination that we would put the band back together to Record all the old original material, as well as a large volume of new material.
Losing our Good friend and bass player Kostas “Jo” Tzounis became our first Great obstacle and almost 10 years on down the road it looks like it is not happening.
So the Good news about KONAN is that within the year, our 2013 the Reunion Concert at the Eightball will be released in a CD-DVD format, containing all the bands original material in our last ever appearance with the original line up.
For the past few years I have been writing songs, some of them were meant to be included to the potential new (KONAN) material and some for my other projects…
Now that I no Longer censor my song writing direction, suddenly I felt the freedom to let it all Gel together at last, in one Creative Entity.
I Find the Hard, Heavy and Progressive Sound right in the middle of it, but without feeling constrained by it to use any number of other musical elements that derive from within me, like folk or electronic or whatever may appear on my creative instincts.
All this felt Quite vague even for me, so to start giving it some sense of shape, I decided to house the idea under a name…and as KONAN was a large part of my musical up bringing…, I took a step back and thought that R.E. Howard was the creator of the KONAN Saga but he had also written many other stories, creating other worlds and Characters.
In the same way, the band KONAN has been my stepping stone but many other musical worlds and characters have shaped my path. So the Name of the project shall be “Howard’s Universe” since a universe can contain as many worlds as one could think of.
Welcome to this new Journey, we hope you will get on board, and like where we will take you.”
Vassilis Papadopoulos
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