Iam Nothe is the solo outfit of Spyreas Sid, frontman of Cyanna Mercury(2014-2017) and Cyanna(1999-2013), two of the most prominent alternative rock bands in Greece in the ’00s and’10s. Spyreas was the lyricist and, with his brother Nick, were the main songwriters of both bands. Together they released numerous albums, EPs, and singles, they toured Greece, the Balkans(Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, North Macedonia) and did a round of European festivals (Switzerland, Germany), and performed live on Greek and French TV. With their second band, Cyanna Mercury, the two brothers were invited to perform in Mezzo Voce for french national TV in 2014, releasing their best work two years later, “Archetypes”, an album that was widely distributed around European vinyl format. Cyanna Mercury disbanded in 2017, and soon after Spyreas started composing and producing his debut solo album as Iam Nothe. The album“The Grand Design” has two of its tracks already released as singles -“Lord You Are The Cure” and “Babylon Burn”.
The global perspective with a distinct flair of locality is the spirit of this vocal-oriented, contemporary rock album, that has a variety of norms, moods, and sentiments flowing through the songs, to accurately transcribe the driving force behind it. With a delicate combination of urban folk, extrovert Americana, and recurring eastern Mediterranean psychedelic time signatures, The Grand Design manifests itself as the work of a singer/songwriter who picks up bits and pieces of the expressional ways of Paul Weller, Ian Astbury, and Jim Morrison bound together with instrumental work that resonates with the bands behind Marcus King, Altın Gün and Nick Cave. Overall, a record of meaningful, laid-back, soulful performances with an attitude of self-exploring and a never-escaping bleakness in between uplifting and spiritual orchestration.
Find out more about the artist via the following links:
- https://www.instagram.com/iam_nothe/
- https://www.facebook.com/IamNotheMMXX
- https://www.youtube.com/c/IamNothe
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