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The Callas is a noisepop band/art collective formed by the artists and brothers Lakis and Aris Ionas. Through the past years they have playfully mixed different disciplines including music, art, performance and film. In 2013 they recorded the new album produced by Jim Sclavunos (Sonic Youth, The Cramps, Lydia Lunch, Grinderman, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds).

They have performed at major festivals and venues such as The Great Escape Festival (UK), Indietracks Festival (UK), Taktfrei Festival (Berlin), Artrocker Magazine (UK), Old Blue Last (UK), Brixton Windmill (UK), The Fly (UK), Club Fandango at The Monarch (UK), Barfly (UK), Sala Apolo (Barcelona) and with bands such as Grinderman, Au Revoir Simone, You Say Party! We Say Die!, The Wedding Present, Television Personalities, Stereo Total, The Victorian English Gentlemen’s Club.

The band The Callas is the tip of an artistic enterprise that has seen the brothers invited to exhibit their artwork and perform live at Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France), Family Business gallery (NY, USA), Dakis Joannou DESTE foundation, Faggionato Fine Art (London, UK), Athens Biennial, AMP gallery, Yinka Shonibare Space(London, UK), The Breeder gallery, ATOPOS cvc etc.

TRACK LISTING

1. Lustlands
2. Anger
3. East Beat
4. Black Leather Books
5. I Hate You But I Like You
6. Disaster
7. That's You
8. I Wonder
9. Octopus Love
10. Am I Vertical?