The prog/world/jazz band: Ellipsis Quintet

The prog/world/jazz band: Ellipsis Quintet

Established in 2016, Ellipsis Quintet is an ambitious “east meets west” musical project of Vasilis Nalbantis. Traditional Balkan, Greek and East Mediterranean music influences coincide with jazz, rock and fusion, to form a ”prog-world-jazz” amalgam that respects the history of all the different musical influences as well as celebrates an open, uninhibited and uncomplicated artistic expression. The main driving forces being honest emotion and love for exploration.

..european poetic music – rough and gentle pictures fly through my head while listening to this fabulous young bunch of music colleges.

Lorenz Raab

The prog/world/jazz band, Ellipsis Quintet are releasing their fresh new single, “Nevma”. The band is taking a surprising new direction with this track. Although “Nevma” is flirting with the prog-rock sound, it isn’t adopting the genre’s stereotypical elements.

Making use of low tuned distorted guitars, heavy grooves and controlled improvisations, with the trumpet at its center, the tune seems to flow in an easy and unencumbered way. Conveying emotion and warmth but also confidence and strength.