Cramps , the label of total music, publishing his first works in
1973: "Arbeit macht frei" of the area and "John Cage" by John Cage (music
of silence), two seemingly antithetical works, but both
revolutionary in the field of musical art.
If, on the one hand, the area turn to the formal research, expressive and
communicate the social message, the other goes to John Cage
sound research as the relative importance of chance and time.
charismatic figure of its founder, Gianni Sassi, remained in the memory
all after the untimely death has the merit to sense the change
and the need to travel, art, unexplored areas of the interior,
stimulate the reactions of the mind with unusual messages and proposals.

Efstratios Demetriou is known as the ‘voice man’. With his capacity and skills embedded in a physical structure that was made simply to produce such an excellent sound, in this artist we find a true relationship between the organic elements of the phonoarticulatory system and the physical transmitters of sound.
Stratos’ instrument is neither mechanical nor synthetic: it’s the live, living, rich Mediterranean voice of a giant of the history of international experimental music.