Father Dionysios Tabakis π. Διονύσιος Ταμπάκης - New date added due to popular demand — live event on Nov 12, 2026

Father Dionysios Tabakis π. Διονύσιος Ταμπάκης - New date added due to popular demand

Father Dionysios Tabakis π. Διονύσιος Ταμπάκης - New date added due to popular demand at IKLECTIK, London on Thu, Nov 12, 7:30 PM. Tickets from $25.31. Lineup, start time and tickets on Ckord.

Baba Yaga's Hut presents: Father Dionysios Tabakis π. Διονύσιος Ταμπάκης at IKLECTIK, November 12th New date added due to popular demand! November 13th show sold out in less than 24 hours. Second ever live show for the Greek Orthodox priest who recently released the amazing album Paradise Metal on Heat Crimes Records. Blending Byzantine liturgical chants, fretless electric guitar amp worship, drone metal, techno, traditional Eastern Mediterranean trance movements and instrumentation. Fr. Dionysios Tabakis is a priest of the Orthodox Church. He serves at the Church of Panagitsa in Nafplio, the Nativity of the Theotokos, and records alone, at home. The music made in that house does not announce itself. It arrives from somewhere older than genre, older than the distinctions we use to organize sound. Tabakis is a musician of the Eastern Mediterranean in the fullest sense: formed in Byzantine theory and practice, fluent on qanun, oud, cümbüş, ney, zurna, Politiki and Pontic lyra, kabak kemane, yali tanbur. The system he works within is Byzantine, not as aesthetic choice or cultural reference, but as logic. The scales, the intervals, the way a note moves toward or away from another: this is the operating system. What emerges is slow, heavy, meditative, drone that carries the mass of stone walls and sustained prayer. It is still Byzantine music. Two tracks are built around the fretless electric guitar, perdesiz in Turkish, meaning simply: without frets. The fretless instrument is one of the few capable of producing moria, intervals smaller than a semitone, with the exactness the voice has and fixed-pitch instruments do not. Here the guitar does not behave like a guitar. It bends into pitches that Western tuning sealed off centuries ago, moving the way Earth moves in their slowest passages, or the way Scott Walker's later work used sound as weight rather than melody. On two tracks, Evgenia Symela Armeni sings. Her voice is psaltic, trained in the Orthodox chanting tradition, ψαλτοτράγουδο, chant-song, and it cuts through the drone the way a single candle cuts through a dark nave. Χαίρε Παρθένε Σουμελά, a Pontian hymn to the Theotokos of Soumela. Ρόδον Ψυχής, Rose of the Soul. Both devotional. Both immovable. Tabakis is also a writer. His books, among them Into the Abyss with a View of Paradise and The Mad Forerunner, move between Athonite monastic thought and the texture of contemporary life. The music moves the same way. Alienation, depression, isolation, not named as modern problems but as ancient conditions, long described, still present. The stillness of Athos and the noise of the present sit in the same frame, unresolved. Fr. Dionysios Tabakis is of Asia Minor descent, 53, married with three children. This is his first release.

Starts: Thu, Nov 12, 7:30 PM

Ends: Thu, Nov 12, 10:30 PM

Where: 95a Rye Lane, London, ENG SE15 4ST, United Kingdom

Price: $25.31

Venue: IKLECTIK

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