Mode Plagal

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|origin = Athens, Greece

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|years_active = 1990-present

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|current_members = Thodoris Rellos
Kleon Antoniou
Takis Kanellos
Antonis Maratos
Angelos Polychronou
Florian Mikuta

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Mode Plagal is an originally Greek group who perform traditional Greek music blended with jazz, funk and other international styles.[https://www.gabrieldrums.com/artists/takis-kanellos.html Review, Modern Drummer, April 1997]. Retrieved 29 June 2020 They have been described as "the preeminent ambassadors of the much-maligned vernacular Greek music in the 21st century"{{Cite web |url=http://www.cdroots.com/res-plagal3.html |title=Mode Plagal at cdRoots |access-date=2009-09-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020609064554/http://www.cdroots.com/res-plagal3.html |archive-date=2002-06-09 |url-status=dead }}

The Athens-based band was formed in 1990 by Thodoris Rellos (saxophone, vocals), Kleon Antoniou (guitar, vocals) and Takis Kanellos (drums). They were joined in 1995 by Antonis Maratos (originally percussion, later bass); in 1997 by Angelos Polychronou (percussion); and in 2000 by Florian Mikuta (keyboards).[http://www.modeplagal.gr/index_EN.htm Mode Plagal official website] After two albums of instrumental music, Mode Plagal and Mode Plagal II, they added vocals for their third album, Mode Plagal III. In 2002, they collaborated with Turkish group Bosphorus, led by composer Nikiforos Metaxas, to record the album Του Βόσπορου Το Πέρα ("Beyond the Bosphorus").[https://www.proggnosis.com/Artist/4069 "Mode Plagal", Prognosis]. Retrieved 29 June 2020[https://www.womex.com/virtual/hitch_hyke_music/bosphorus_mode_plagal/beyond_the_bosphorus Review: Beyond the Bosphorus, Womex.com]. Retrieved 29 June 2020

Critic Fiachra Gibbons wrote of Mode Plagal: "On first hearing, they are a driving, straightahead jazz-funk outfit. Listen longer and the restless Greek spirit, audible in the transcendent sax of Thodoris Rellos, becomes evident, drawing from rembetika - the Greek blues - and the dance music of the Balkans, Thrace, Asia Minor and all points east."[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/jul/30/worldmusic.artsfeatures Fiachra Gibbons, "Mode Plagal and Crotala", The Guardian, 30 July 2003]. Retrieved 29 June 2020

In 2008, they released the album Η Κάθοδος Των Σαλτιμπάγκων, recorded with Cretan band Hainides, and in 2010 they released Στην Κοιλιά Του Κήτους. In 2014, they released Πέρα Από Τα Σύνορα, a collaboration with Hainides and the musician Psarantonis (Antonis Xylouris).[https://www.discogs.com/artist/586052-Mode-Plagal Mode Plagal, Discogs.com]. Retrieved 29 June 2020