the person

Kostas was a very gifted, cheerful and charismatic man. A man of great breadth, inexhaustible and very focused in everything that he dealt with, he was the kind of person that is very difficult to fit in any stereotype.

As a kid he was a well known skate-border while as a teenager he was a key figure and leading activist in the extended high school sit-ins and unrest that swept across Greece in 1991 following a government attempt to impose oppressive regulations in education.

As a musician he spent endless hours rigorously studying the great jazz masters while continuously keeping up with everything interesting steaming from the new breed of talented black musicians.

Throughout his life he was constantly trying to understand the real meaning of things, was never prone to superficial judgments of persons or circumstances and was always trying to look beyond the surface. 

Art Blakey and Hegel, James Brown and Nietzsche, punk and surrealism, gospel and Zan Pier Vouagie, Jimmie Hendrix and (the young) Karl Marx, Charles Mingus and Malcolm X, Bob Marley and Guy Debord… could be named as some of the pieces that Kostas was made of …

He was not attracted by fame, money, success or a career in anything that he did not believe in. Throughout his life  he was always trying to follow the road of his heart and fought to create the circumstances that would allow that. He did not believe in well spoken words or abstract philosophies not followed by actions.

On his snare drum he had inscribed the phrase:

“You are what u do not what u think u are”