Κόρε. Ύδρο.

Biography

Kore. Ydro. were formed in Corfu,Greece during the autumn of 1993 by Pantelis Dimitriadis and Giorgos Arvanitakis along with their two friends, Spiros Katagis and Thodoros Pairamidis, and - mainly as a three-member group, following the early departure of the last one - shortly acquired cult fame in the underground school circles of the island, supported from unrefined, timeless "no-fi" home recordings of trash aesthetics, circulated from hand in hand in certain tens of copies, but also from a mo...

Kore. Ydro. were formed in Corfu,Greece during the autumn of 1993 by Pantelis Dimitriadis and Giorgos Arvanitakis along with their two friends, Spiros Katagis and Thodoros Pairamidis, and - mainly as a three-member group, following the early departure of the last one - shortly acquired cult fame in the underground school circles of the island, supported from unrefined, timeless "no-fi" home recordings of trash aesthetics, circulated from hand in hand in certain tens of copies, but also from a more general over-artistic activity, including curious live appearances, unprocessed video-clips, humorous short "films" etc.

This first, recanted in its bigger part, period of Kore. Ydro. was continued with certain line-up changes (Konstantinos Amygdalos joined in 1997 and Spiros Katagis departed in 2000, after 7 years of inexhaustible production with the band) until the summer of 2001, when the three remaining Kore. Ydro. recorded their last songs before the adhesion of Alexandros Makris, that set the stepping stone to a new beginning for the group, as this is reflected in the 15 tracks of album If All Ever Ended Here (An Ola Telionan Edo), an entirely shelf-production, which was released in March 2003 by the historical independent company Wipe Out Records in 515 copies and received enthusiastic reviews from the Greek musical press. The exclusively online release (made available for free from the official Kore. Ydro. website) mini-album Seven Months Afterwards (Efta Mines Meta) followed, including outtakes from the If All Ever Ended Here sessions, as well as later recordings, while February 2004 saw the release of the first official Kore. Ydro. video - also produced by the group - for the song "Your Kindness", the highlight of If All Ever Ended Here.

In August 2004 the group faced the biggest crisis of its history, reaching the threshold of breaking-up, because of the intensity caused in the relations of its two leading members (Pantelis Dimitriadis and Alexandros Makris), as a natural result of the organisational and other problems (military duties, financial difficulties, trouble in finding permanent collaborators for live appearances, poor commercial receiving of If All Ever Ended Here) that had been accumulated and prevented the smooth realisation of the group's activities. The good will and mainly the conscience of the new material’s importance, intended for the forthcoming Kore. Ydro. album, contributed to the quick overcome of the crisis, that automatically meant the beginning of a number of unexpected positive developments, the climax of which was the agreement with MINOS-EMI record company in September 2005 for the release of the LP, which had already been recorded by Pantelis, Alexandros and the three new members - friends and casual group collaborators from the past - who in the meantime had joined the basic artistic team of Kore. Ydro., drummer Alexis Apostolidis (05.2004) and the guitarists Spiros Spirakos (01.2005) and Nickos Varotsis (05.2005).

The second "regular" album of Kore. Ydro. Cheap Pop for the Elite, a traditionally entire independent production, recorded - at its bigger part in the spring of 2005 - in the group’s "home'" studio in Corfu, was released by EMI (under the Capitol label), in a felicitous occasion of DIY attitude and ambition in February 2006.

The band disbanded in 2014
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