ALBUM REVIEWS - WORD

‘Mr Shirt plays pretty much all the mainstay instruments of modern music – guitar, bass, keyboards, percussion, vocals and electronics. And he’s a very skilled player, weaving rich harmonic arrangements, befuddling time signatures and quirky atmospheres into his string of aural gems. His music is extremely varied, ranging from strange folky numbers, more progressive rockish outings, atmospheric space explorations and various lurching pieces that evoke an almost carnivalesque quality.’"HEATHEN HARVEST

"a fantastic collage of everything in the artist's head, all tumbling out and wired-up wrong. This is an album steeped in the experimentalism of Krautrock and really fucked-up folksike, the sorta thing that would get a release in the mid-70s, leaving everyone completely confused, later to become something of a cult classic" ELECTRIC ROULETTE

"a not so healthy dosage of nonsense" SONIC DICE

‘jack shirt mines a steady seam of psychedelic folk music stripped away of the hokum and cliché that that accompanies such things, using the powers of drone, minimalist melodies a la Philip Glass and acoustic instruments Jack Shirt’s newest release is a 20 minute exploration of the tonality of the ukulele. Improvisational techniques and swirling dynamics are used to build an atmosphere both haunting and lasting. Great stuff’ ROUGH TRADE

“Wistful and melancholy, Jack Shirt (aka Christos Fanaras) seems to have got hold of a simple poetic essence in English, possibly aided by an oblique Greek take on the language. He seems to cruise serenely between composition and improvisational experiment. Musically bold, he contrives fitting and filmic settings for his lyric. Truly unconventional, he invites you to listen in.” CLUB INTEGRAL