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Dimitris Tamilias

Dimitris Tamilias is a graduate drummer of the Jazz – Blues – Rock department of Contemporary Conservatory of Thessaloniki and a student of its founding member Mr. Konstantinos Pagonidis, but also of Mr. M. Sideridis and Mr. M. Stefanidis. His studies include sound engineering classes, also workshops at the PhilipposNakas Conservatory in collaboration with the Berklee College of Music (2010) and a Jazz Course (2011) at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. He lives and works as a sound engineer and musician in Kastoria, Greece, teaching at several Conservatories in northern Greece. His multiannual experience in live performances as a sound engineer and also as a member of Jazz, Blues, Funk, Rock, and Pop etc. bands is to be mentioned. In the past years, he has been performing with the American bassist & composer-performer Christopher Li’nard Jackson in the Li’nards Many Moods – Moods Around the World (Greek edition) band.

2015 -- Drums VS Rock by Deep Ya Beat band (Arranger – Dimitris Tamilias
Combines the rock music with percussion instruments emphasizing on improvisations and solos of many well-known musicians).
2021 -- Alter Ego (Composer/ Arranger – Dimitris Tamilias)
Both albums recorded, mixed, and mastered by Dimitris Tamilias.

The Drums VS Rock project is the first one all over Greece, by which the Deep Ya Beat band (Dimitris Tamilias & Konstantinos Pagonidis) brings together the rock music with the world of percussion instruments through the one and only existing path. It’s an instrumentation of D. Tamilias in cooperation with K. Pagonidis for plenty of percussion instruments (drums, vibraphone, congas, bongos, cabasa, cymbals, scratchin’ etc.), in which various noted musicians participate with improvisations and

The “Alter Ego” is the other self, the one not fearing experimenting with the sound, travelling through melodies, redefining the rhythm-time relation, drawing music paintings with strokes untamed. It is the Other Half as well, though.