Active Members return with a full electric band in Athens and Thessaloniki
30 years have passed since that June – beginning of the 90’s – when Michalis Mitakidis listened to the orders of the times and named the group he formed with the most appropriate and essential: Active Member. Active Members became the medium to express what life described to him, and even to express his fears, dreams and nightmares. Active Members became one with the genre that Michalis invented and christened “Low Bap”, ie “support your speech with your life and vice versa” and since then they did not stop the creative process, not only in music, but also in cultural events in general.
Concerts, lyrics, discography, documentaries, songs for theater, theater (!), Performances, books, articles, audio experiments, open discussions, interventions and the list is endless, for this band from Perama who with much love and consistency work has set up a whole world of music, with words and loops that now resonate in the hearts of those who heard them and even for a while traveled with them.
Sadahzinia – according to Yolanda Tsiambokalou – became an official member of Active Members in 2003 (while appearing with them since 1994) and since then deals with both the lyrics and their presentation and the wider action of the group. She is the first woman to be actively involved in hip-hop in Greece. He has also published many children’s fairy tales, translated books and visited children’s creative expression groups and schools across the country.
In the lowbap music universe of Active Members, generations meet with a common code and find a solid passage for continuity through the music and words of the group.
As an Active Member they count 22 recordings and dozens more as solo artists. They also release many and rare personal albums, while they have participated in production, lyrics, performance in dozens of other record works of other artists.
ACTIVE MEMBER DISCOGRAPHY
“Protest” 1992
“In the hour of shadows” 1994
“The big bay” 1995< /strong>
“From the place of escape” 1996
“The myths of the swamp” 1998
“Strange days, wonderful days” 2000
“Live-remix” 2000
“In the time of strange fear” 2001
“Passage to the extreme” 2002
«Fiera» 2004
“From the big bay to Fiera” 2005
«Blah-blasphemy» (cd & dvd) 2005
“Skieratsa” (box 3cd, “Blah-blasphemy 2”, “Apnea”, “Deep Shadows”) 2006
“The mistakes from our making” 2cd 2009
“In the mute at the end” 2011
“Arsenal” (2cd) 2012
«Cosmos Alivas» 2014
“Outro-live” (2cd & dvd) 2015
“Zaliki” (2cd) 2016
“Fryktoria” (songs section – audio streaming) 2019-2020
“Here is Distomo” 2020
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