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 Uptown Beat

Uptown Beat was formed in 2006.  It originally included Charis Ioannou on saxophones, Savvas Houvartas on guitar, Gabriel Karapatakis on bass and Stelios Xidias on drums who was later replaced by Rodos Panayiotou.  The repertoire of the band is a fusion from different types of music including straight funk rhythms from the seventies, classic rock sounds as well as swinging rhythms from the North America and Latin rhythms from the Central and South America.  The band members, all being Cypriot residents imply discretely and sometimes not, their middle-eastern background on some of the tunes. 

Listening to Uptown Beat one can appreciate the meticulous sound Rodos can achieve on his drum set which can range from being gentle and fragile to extremely virtuosic drum solos stemming from Brazilian rhythms. Gabriel, who is constantly feeding Rodos with ideas, provides the solid bottom on which the rest is built.  His fat sound and groovy bass lines are always in the style which is being implied and his solos always very tasty, reminiscent of the great Marcus Miller.  Savvas, apart from being a very talented songwriter and composer, he is a solid guitar player with a very mature sound.  He always has endless ideas as how to incorporate his sound in the rhythm section as well as a very unique improvising style which demonstrates his rock background as well as the middle-eastern sound echoing from his tunes. Last but not least, Charis lays on top of all this the melodies of the tunes always in a lyrical style, and during the solo sections he splashes notes in a dexterous way indicating his jazz background. 

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