someone who isn't me

Someone Who Isn’t Me is a new music project by three women in Athens: Marilena Orfanou (synths, composer — Berlin Brides, DJ Loo)Maria Hatzakou (drums — film producer at Haos Film) Gina Dimakopoulou (guitar — Katrin the Thrill).

They love analogue sounds and toy synths, chaotic guitars and fake strings, female vocals and off-beat rhythms.

S.W.I.M.’s first appearance was a live ciné concert at the 16th Festival du film francophone de Grèce in 2015, where they performed their original soundtrack for the silent 1929 film.  S.W.I.M.’s first single release was ‘NEVER FIND IT’ featuring Natasha

‘Giannaraki’ was written especially for the closing credits of Athina Rachel Tsangari’s 2015 feature CHEVALIER, which went on to win Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival.

S.W.I.M.’s first 7inch vinyl release, STOP & REMEMBER (feat Σtella) / LEAP OF FAITH (feat Coti), was released in February 2017, by Inner Ear Records.

In 2017, they played their first live gig at the Winter Plissken Festival in Athens, before heading to Austin as a showcase artist at the SXSW. They also wrote the soundtrack and performed live music at the theater play, LULU directed by Dimitra Tampasi.

Their second 7inch single GOMENAKI was released in May 2018, by Amour Records. The music video, directed by Alkis Papastathopoulos and produced by Haos Film, had more than 100K views in just one month. The song and video were acclaimed by the press, Greek radio stations and fans, as the ultimate indie hit of the summer. It won the Sound Award for best music video at the Indie Memphis Film Festival (November 2018).

In May 2018 they also wrote and performed a newly conceived soundtrack for the legendary silent film, Pandora’s Box (1929). They are currently collaborating with US director Mike Ott on the soundtrack of his documentary, ‘Kid Icarus’.

Their debut album DANCE WITH YOU was released on the February 9th 2019. (Amour Records).

In May 2019 they released their new music video for ‘Pinku’ directed by Alkistis Terzi and won the best music award at the Mad about Arts by Campari Awards.

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