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The Motiff are an existential rock band from Heraklion.

The line-up consists of singer Stavros "Saso" Konstantinomanolakis, guitarists Manos Liapakis and Lefteris Tsagliotis, bassist Markos Mastorakis and drummer Kostas Vitsakis. The band was formed in early 2018 and, after a short time of rehearsing, they started to work on their own compositions.

In 2019 they started having their first gigs around the city. On September 18th 2019 they had their first interview on "Best Radio Heraklion 94.7FM" on the show of George "Captain Joe" and his son Orfeas Mitsotakis. As the band stated in the interview, their songwriting is a process in which they all contribute, thus their music is written by all members, each one composes his own part.

On November 8th they had their first TV appearance on NEA TV channel of Chania presenting their own music as guests on Gogo Kallidonaki's "Sto Kokkino" show.

Their first two singles, Ten Thousand Lives and Gravity were recorder between November and December of 2019 at the Mad Hat Music Studios by Nikos Vogiatzakis, co-produced by The Motiff and Nikos Vogiatzakis and mastered by Panos Bothos in his studio in Athens.