Giotis Damianidis

Giotis Damianidis is a Greek guitarist and improviser, raised in Thessaloniki, who has lived in Brussels since 2006. He came out of the underground rock scene and plays an amplified, rock-toned guitar across free jazz, free improvisation, Afrobeat and rock, leading his own bands and working as a sideman in the Belgian scene. Damianidis studied jazz guitar at Codarts in Rotterdam and then at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. He leads the quintet Punk Kong (Lonely Cedar, Pull Ninja), co-founded Act Up Trio and Don Kapot, and started the label Mr. Nakayasi.