CollaborationS (2025)
Melina Paxinos Quartet

This is a vinyl-only release. (All tracks are available separately on all streaming platforms.)
This album showcases a selection of my collaborations from 2018 to 2024, featuring a diverse range of styles—from modern jazz with Greek influences to electronica and neo-classical orchestral music.

Side A

Athens V (feat. Ross Daly) – Melina Paxinos Quartet
Time (feat. Andreas Polyzogopoulos) – Melina Paxinos Quartet
Ta Matoklada sou Lampoun (Melina Paxinos Quartet Version) –
Markos Vamvakaris

Side B

Athens IV (Lena Platonos Remix coop. Stergios T.) – Melina Paxinos
For my Dad (feat. Baron Arnold, Alaa Zouiten) – Melina Paxinos Quartet
Choices - Melina Paxinos, Yiannis Papadopoulos
Amoroso – Melina Paxinos I Orchestral Experience
Love & War – Melina Paxinos I Orchestral Experience

Personnel side A:

Athens V (feat. Ross Daly) – Melina Paxinos Quartet (07:38)

Melina Paxinos: soprano saxophone, composition
Ross Daly: lyre
Yiannis Papadopoulos: piano
Ntinos Manos: upright bass
Dimitris Klonis: drums

Recording: George Kariotis, Dimitris Mourlas
Mixing: George Kariotis
Mastering: Christos Zorbas
Sierra Studios Athens (2019)

Time (feat. Andreas Polyzogopoulos) – Melina Paxinos Quartet (05:53)

Melina Paxinos: soprano saxophone, composition
Andreas Polyzogopoulos: trumpet
Yiannis Papadopoulos: piano
Ntinos Manos: upright bass
Dimitris Klonis: drums

Recording & mixing: George Kariotis
Mastering: Christos Zorbas
Sierra Studios, Athens (2022)

Ta Matoklada sou Lampoun (Melina Paxinos Quartet Version) – Markos Vamvakaris (07:22)

Markos Vamvakaris: composition
Melina Paxinos: soprano saxophone
Yiannis Papadopoulos: piano
Ntinos Manos: upright bass
Dimitris Klonis: drums

Recording & mixing: George Kariotis
Mastering: Christos Zorbas
Sierra Studios, Athens (2022)

Personnel side B:

Athens IV (Lena Platonos Remix coop. Stergios T.) – Melina Paxinos (03:56)

Lena Platonos: Remix arrangement
Stergios T.: Remix arrangement, editing, programming & mixing
Melina Paxinos: soprano saxophone, composition

Soprano saxophone recording: George Kariotis
Mastering: Panagiotis Petronikolos
Sierra Studios Athens (2020)

For my Dad (feat. Baron Arnold, Alaa Zouiten) – Melina Paxinos Quartet (06:44)

Melina Paxinos: alto saxophone, composition
Baron Arnold: trombone
Alaa Zouiten: oud
Yiannis Papadopoulos: piano
Richard Mueller: upright bass
Aidan Lowe: drums

Recording, mixing & mastering: Rainer Robben AudioCue Berlin (2018)

Choices - Melina Paxinos, Yiannis Papadopoulos (04:32)

Melina Paxinos: soprano saxophone, composition
Yiannis Papadopoulos: piano

Recording & mixing: George Kariotis
Mastering: Christos Zorbas
Sierra Studios, Athens (2022)

Amoroso – Melina Paxinos I Orchestral Experience (02:46)
Love & War – Melina Paxinos I Orchestral Experience (03:16)

Composition & orchestration: Melina Paxinos
Music preparation: Alexander Trampas
Score supervisor: Vasilis Milesis

Violin I: Laertis Kokolanis
Violin II: Vasilis Soukas
Viola: Ilias Sdoukos
Cello: Michalis Porfyris
Double bass: Alexander Trampas
Clarinet: Mario Adrover Pardo
Bassoon: Andreas Spuropoulos

Recording: Alexandros Chrysidis
Mixing: George Kariotis
Mastering: Christos Zorbas
Sierra Studios Athens (2024)

All tracks composed, arranged, orchestrated and produced by Melina Paxinos Except ‘Ta Matoklada sou Lampoun’ by Markos Vamvakaris

Label: Hellenic Jazz Society (2025)
Distribution: Sieveking Sound Germany

Time (2022)
MELINA PAXINOS QUARTET
(feat. Andreas Polyzogopoulos)

LISTEN:

Personnel:

Melina Paxinos/ soprano, alto sax & compositions

Yiannis Papadoupoulos/ Piano

Dimitris Klonis/ drums

Ntinos Manos/ acoustic & e. bass

Andreas Polyzogopoulos/ trumpet & flugelhorn (guest on track 1 & 5)

Rec & MIX: George Kariotis (Sierra Studios, Athens)

MASTERING: Christos Zorbas (Sierra Studios, Athens)

Photos: Ria Carajiaba
Artwork: Sofia Braila

Label: MachenMachenMachen!/2te Sensation (PlazaPlasa) Hamburg
DISTR.: KONTOR NEW MEDIA

ATHENS (2019)

MELINA PAXINOS QUARTET
(feat. Ross Daly)

Personnel:

Melina Paxinos/ soprano, alto sax & compositions

Yiannis Papadoupoulos/ keys, juno

Dimitris Klonis/ drums

Ntinos Manos/ acoustic & e. bass

guest: ROSS DALY/ lyra

Rec, MIX & MASTERING at Sierra Studios Athens:

George Kariotis, Dimitris Mourlas, Christos Zorbas

Label: MachenMachenMachen! (PlazaPlasa)

DISTR.: KONTOR NEW MEDIA

Artwork: Diana Masterova, Hannes Eils

Photos: Ria Carajiaba

BOOKLET: Diana Masterova

CIRCLE OF ODDNESS (2018)
Melina Paxinos Quartet
(feat. Alaa Zouiten & Baron Arnold)

LISTEN:

Personnel:

Melina Paxinos/ alto, soprano sax & compositions

Yiannis papadopoulos/ keys, fender rhodes

richard mueller/ ac. & el. bass

aidan lowe/ drums

guests:

alaa zouiten/ oud

baron arnold/ trombone

rec, Mix & mastering: audio Cue Berlin, rainer Robben

Label: PlazaPlasa, MachenMachenMachen

DISTR.: KONTOR NEW MEDIA

Artwork: Diana Masterova
Photo: Katja ruge

LINER NOTES:
The album “Circle of Oddness” is centered around two concepts. One the one hand I wanted to form a circle between odd and even meters; biginning at 4/4 going through 5/8, 6/8, 7/8, 8/8 (4/4), 9/8 until arriving back again at 4/4. Through the combination of these odd and even meters on the other hand I wanted to achieve the resulting number pi= 3.14 by the greek mathematician, physicist and engineer Archimedes as a reference to my dad who always used to open his suitcase with this number combination and to whom this album is dedicated.

To navigate us through this album journey we are joined by this intangible number pi like a steady travel companion leading us through a mystical musical labyrinth of odd and even time signatures. The “Circle of Oddness” therefore represents a connection between these odd and even time signatures which - put together in a certain calculation - give us the number pi.