J.Kriste, Master of Disguise

J.Kriste, Master of Disguise @ Gaia Live | 18.05.13

J.Kriste, Master of Disguise went from being the bedroom music project (hence the weird name) of Cypriot Lefteris Moumtzis, to becoming a live 10-piece orchestra. For a time, in between, it was also a five-piece prog-rock band based in London under the name Masters of Disguise that executed J.Kriste and other original material. That band produced two EPs in the time of its existence (2005-2008). The bedroom days (2003-2005) produced the first J.Kriste album named “This is the alternative” (Moon Records), a highly experimental record with prog-rock, jazz, psychedelic and electronic elements. 2008 saw the start of the recordings for Girls, Ghosts and Gods, Moumtzis’ second solo album. In May of that year he gathered a collection of unused songs from the Masters of Disguise set and flew to Athens, Greece to begin the sessions. In May 2009 ‘Girls, Ghosts and Gods’ (Puzzlemusik) was released in Cyprus and later on in Greece where it was proclaimed as one of the best albums of that year. The songs on the album bear a strong “scent” of London, where they were written, but also distinctive references to Greek traditional music.

In November 2010 J.Kriste, Master of Disguise played a long-awaited concert for the first time as 10-piece band. These videos are taken from that show. The band as seen in the videos performed again at the Cultural Festival of the University of Cyprus at Axiothea on the 28th of June 2011 and at Kypria Festival on the 11th and 12th of October 2012.

A new record, “The Age of Now”, was released on the 21st of December 2012 on Louvana Records.

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