Petros Klampanis – b, fx, voc
Kristjan Randalu – p
Ziv Ravitz – dr
“Petros Klampanis is a musician who has always spoken from the heart.”
When a journalist from the American music magazine *Downbeat* attests that the bassist’s music always comes from the heart and that he speaks from the heart, this is by no means a cheesy, saccharine phrase straight out of a poetry album. And anyone who meets the Greek in person and hears him talk about music will be able to confirm it: It is not only close to his heart; for him, it is a matter of the heart.
The unspoken and inexpressible – finding words for them is a primal human need. But as much fun as the struggle to find the supposedly “right” words can be, this passionate endeavor repeatedly reaches its limits. And that’s a good thing.
Latent Info, the current project by Klampanis—dubbed a “Bass Ace” by Bass Player Magazine—featuring Estonian pianist Kristjan Randalu and Israeli drummer Ziv Ravitz, demonstrates that instrumental music is indeed capable of storytelling. It tells its story as the “latent information” within a piece—just as real, yet as intangible as unspoken thoughts, unachieved goals, or flowers growing in the asphalt: unseen and largely ignored.
To bring this unexplored sonic material to the fore, the eponymous album—released by enja records in early 2025—was recorded —was recorded with all three musicians sharing the same space at the same time, with the respective microphones subtly capturing the subtext floating in the room. At times they improvise over exciting rhythms, at others they surrender to a dreamy elegy, but always dominated by sparkling piano sounds.
Throughout, the musical slides and dialogues by Klampanis, Randalu and Ravitz cast a spotlight on the realm of the unspoken, overlooked and, of course, unheard or overheard – and, not least, fan out the beauty and power that lies in all unnoticed things.
Petros Klampanis’ eighth album is set to be released in the fall of 2026.
