ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE
absent without leave is the solo project of the 25 year-old George Mastrokostas, based in Athens, Greece. Recording everything himself in his home-studio, he creates a melancholic sound that covers a multitude of styles such as shoegaze, post-rock, ambient and electronica. To date, he has released his music on labels such as unlabel (uk), duotone (japan), fuzzy panda (usa), bsbta (denmark), october man (uk) and also on his own label sound in silence (greece) and has collaborated for split releases with artists like yellow6, kimonophonic, lope, doogie and cono norte 3. He has played several gigs in Greece at various venues, including synch festival 2007 (among other artists like mum, !!!, front 242, fischerspooner, alexander hacke and many others) and support gigs with piano magic (after being selected by piano magic themselves) and section 25 (from legendary factory records).

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