EUROTOIRE: EQUALISER | July 2022 - May 2023
Eurotoire: Equaliser (EU:EQ) is a capacity-building programme and songwriting and production camp matching emerging artists of underrepresented genders from underrepresented regions in Europe with emerging music media professionals.
Meet the 2022 - 2023 team by clicking on their profiles above.
Participating producer-songwriters will release and promote an album written and produced collaboratively, while participating music media professionals will publish and disseminate news stories and media to diversify the music industry’s tastemaking and curation. EU:EQ focuses on directly creating professional networks for artists of underrepresented gender from European countries which either before or during the pandemic suffer from low music support architectures such as minimal or no governmental music export funding opportunities. Participants will benefit from cross-cultural collaboration to empower all participants with a network to access beyond the project and celebrate what diverse European repertoire truly sounds like.
EU:EQ builds off the co-creative sessions that took place during Eurotoire's pilot programme in 2021 - 2022 and which resulted in the collaborative album "On A Red Thursday".
EUROTOIRE | December 2020 - February 2022
On A Red Thursday: A musical journey uniting complete strangers across borders to let creativity lead the way
In a songwriting programme piloted by Cypriot label, Louvana Records called Eurotoire (December 2020 - February 2022), songwriters, producers, and session musicians from ten countries were invited to gather in Cyprus to test their limits, trust strangers, and allow their artistry to merge. Their initial week-long meeting began on a Thursday in June at Studio eleven63 in the island’s capital of Nicosia and blossomed into fifteen demos. After another two writing and recording sessions in July and September, the tracks bloomed into the Eurotoire team members’ fully-fledged album. Now they’re using On A Red Thursday to spread the word about the power of surrendering to creative instinct and collaborating with the unknown.
Meet Eurotoire's first ever team
About Eurotoire's First Journey
Eurotoire is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Commission and organised by Louvana Records, creators of Fengaros Festival and Fengaros Music Village, in collaboration with Studio eleven63.
Louvana Records is an indie record label, event producer, and non-profit organisation in Nicosia, Cyprus. Its label releases range from indie pop, to contemporary classical music, to punk rock. The label is responsible for various concerts and projects in Cyprus that promote live, original music, as well as live video sessions recorded by Studio eleven63 in Nicosia.
Studio eleven63
is a premier recording facility founded in 2008 and based in Nicosia Cyprus, Studio eleven63 specialises in music production, composition, recording, mixing and mastering for records, films and advertisements as well as sound design for the moving image.
Fengaros Festival
is a popular music festival in Cyprus that celebrates new music from the Mediterranean and beyond. Organised by Louvana Records, Fengaros is a pioneering festival on the island, bringing international rock, pop, world and dance musicians to one of Cyprus’ most beautiful villages. For three days, Kato Drys village transforms into a whole other experience, with festival-goers of all ages wandering through the winding village roads, discovering new music, new people and new experiences.
Fengaros Music Village
provides arts education through a series of music and creative workshops. Spread across six days, the workshops take place in the agrotouristic village of Kato Drys and are taught by industry professionals with expertise in a range of instrumental techniques. The event has become an institution and is one of the most important meetings on the island for musicians from Cyprus and abroad. Throughout the years, Fengaros Music Village has functioned as the birthplace of many musical and artistic collaborations and projects. Each evening free concerts are available to the public followed by jam sessions in the village’s cafe.
