PRESS

FLAGPOLE MAGAZINE (Athens, GA) - "Containing both raw and smoothly recorded material, I.V. Catatonia is a well produced album that speaks volumes about its innovative creator."

NEW TIMES (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) - "This is absolutely worth hearing all the way through, and he's absolutely worth watching out for in the future. There is no such thing as a mediocre song in the Eric Alexandrakis repertoire. This is just music that you have got to hear to appreciate."

STREET MAGAZINE, MIAMI HERALD (Miami, FL) - "Placed almost like intermissions in a sad and intense movie, are interesting musical collages, intertwining street sounds and assorted messages from his answering machine."

HM MAGAZINE (Austin, TX) - "Fascinating things will probably come out of this artist...He's got a good start."

UNIVERSITY OF REGINA CARILLON (Regina, Canada) - "It's a pop rock record that abandons all pop music norms in order to become something much grander. I love it."

PURR MAGAZINE (Elkhart, IN) - "This music has a theatrical flavor that is simply mind blowing."

COSMIK DEBRIS (Edmonds, WA) - "An achingly fragile and beautiful album."

AIDING & ABETTING (Durham, NC) - "It is a CD you must hear at least once. But I doubt hearing it once will be enough!"

TURK'S HEAD (West Chester, PA) - "A very nicely produced slab of more experimental pop music...it's another artist on a small label to keep an eye on."

ASSUME POWER FOCUS (Allenhurst, NJ) - "This is what music is supposed to sound like! Before hearing I.V. Catatonia, I never knew how badly I wanted to hear music that sounds like this. Now I know."

THE GLOBAL MUSE (Millersville, MO) - "You never know what Alexandrakis is going to hit you with next...at one time it'll be something harmonically straightforward and then the next moment some interesting sonic texture creeps into the mix. He has a lot to offer audiences willing to be racheted up by challenging music."

GET FANCY! (Everett, WA) - "...name an instrument, pick a style and you'll find it frolicking somewhere in the world of this crafty, creative genius!"

NY ROCK (New York City, NY) - "...if you didn't give a listen to I.V. Catatonia you'd be missing out on the strange and lovely music found there...Alexandrakis has assembled an aural landscape that is as haunting and deranged as it is uplifting."

SKYSCRAPER MAGAZINE (Boulder, CO) - "As concept albums go, I.V. Catatonia is surely the most effective of its kind. It is a bricolage at its most manic, pure pop at its most melodic."

MUSIC EMISSIONS (Calgary, Canada ) - "Are you ready for some weird fucked up music?...his classical training shines through as well with the amazing arrangement he comes up with."

AMPERSAND ETC. (Victoria, Australia) - "Alexandrakis has put together an excellent album - sweeping mercilessly across genres...constructing songs which flow and build mellifluously, but always on the edge."

DEEP MAGAZINE (Winter Park, FL) - "...one of the most original pieces to come out of any American music scene in a very long time."

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA UNIVERSITY REGISTER (Morris, MN) - "If this album causes me to die from over-stimulation, all I ask is that you take my cold, stiff thumbs and point them upward, to indicate to all in attendance that everybody, even the dead, can appreciate this gritty, visceral album."

TUFTS UNIVERSITY DAILY (Medford, MA) - "If there's no one around to judge you, lock the door and listen up."

CORNELL UNIVERSITY DAILY SUN (Ithaca, NY) - "...a twisted yet somehow strangely beautiful work."

XAVIER UNIVERSITY NEWSWIRE (Cincinnati, OH) - "...a wild ride, but one that will leave real music fans smiling."

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HURRICANE (Coral Gables, FL) - "Alum's music defies labels."

OAKLAND UNIVERSITY POST (Rochester, MI) - "...different and adventurous type of music that cannot be categorized, this CD is one you need to buy."

THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH (Chicago, IL) - "Fascinating, compelling stuff for this jaded rock critic."

BANDWIDTH (Yonkers, NY) - "...almost hypnotic..."

CITY LINK MAGAZINE (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) - "A remarkable 21 piece suite of spontaneously produced, textural music."

GAJOOB (Salt Lake City, UT) - "It sounds like it came from a mad doctor's laboratory if the mad doctor could write kick ass songs, which he can."

SOUNDSXP (London, England) - "...this is fine stuff..."

SCORE ROCKS! (Little Rock, AR) - "So, if you should choose to take a stroll into the eclectic, fascinating world of Eric Alexandrakis, you're certain to hear something you've never heard before, and are not likely to hear from anyone else in the near future."

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA VISTA (Edmond, OK) - "Very rarely does a new CD come along with fresh new angles to music."

BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS (Bowling Green, OH) - "Amazed . . ."

PAST ARCHIVES (Dorset, England) - "Eric Alexandrakis is an embarrassingly talented musician..."

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY REVEILLE (Baton Rouge, LA) - "'Catatonia'" integrates genius bits of melody and composition with unbridled insanity of noise."

OAKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY DAILY O'COLLEGIAN (Stillwater, OK) - "...a remarkable feat of ingenuity and creativeness."

LAST SIGH (Kalamazoo, MI) - "Well worth listening to..."

DEL MAR COLLEGE FOGHORN (Corpus Christi, TX) - "Alexandrakis leaves a lingering euphoria that engages every sense, and teases every body part."

MONONSTER (Burbank, CA) - "There is no conventionality with Eric here, just Eric. Disc of the month, easily."

VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY SPECTATOR (Valdosta, GA) - "...I couldn't stop listening."

TOWSON UNIVERSITY TOWERLIGHT (Towson, MD) - "...may be the future of therapy and rock music alike."

PENN VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE SPECTRUM (Kansas City, MO) - "...an amazing musical artist..."

BAY DOMAIN (Tampa, FL) - "The strength and brilliance in this album is the imagery the artist creates as he take you on his journey."

SONIC SMOKE (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) - "I.V. Catatonia is a well produced album that speaks volumes about its innovative creator."

UNDERGROUND SOCIETY (Saint Paul Les Dax, France) - "Eric Alexandrakis belongs to this generation of type setter 'do it all', able to explore in several different musical universes, in order to bring to their albums a unique touch."

BABYLON (Athens, Greece) - "Eric creates a kind of music that makes us feel optimistic for the future of rock and roll."

ECLECTIC EARWIGS (Wake Forest, NC) - "...(a) do it all whiz kid..."

AMBIENTRANCE - "Interesting do-it-yourself rock that goes far beyond the ordinary."

FALLOUT MAGAZINE - "Eric's talent is amazing. He is a songwriter that can take just about anything and turn it into music. That takes talent and imagination."

ANTIMUSIC - "...compelling, as you hang on to hear where Alexandrakis is going to take you next."