Happy Dog Project is a Greek band formed in an appartment @ downtown Athens, Greece, during the hot summer of 2000.

The band performs it's own music that incorporates elements from balkan/greek traditional odd meters and funky/hip hop drum beats, clarinet mediterranean/middle eastern echoes, jazz keyboard impro, guitar noises, dub and electro ambiences.

A mixture of the members aesthetics. The band's style changed over the years. In the beggining, it was more rough and hip hop-ish with DJ Marble spining vinyls and the band improvising along with guitar, hammond and rhodes in the front row.

After some time, thinking and concers, the band focused more to the music of our own region of the world: the mediterranean/balkan/greek music and the rhythm signatures that come form this area.

The addition of clarinetist Kostas Tzekos brought this element in front. Today the Happy Dog Project members play their own material - in other words, no covers but original stuff.

Happy Dog Project performed so far in live various venues, clubs and open air festivals in Greece and in Turkey (15th Akbank Jazz Festival @ Babylon Club, Istanbul).

Their first one, entitled "Dog Days Are Over", was out in April 2004 from Ankh Records and their second one ("Doggy Style") in 2007 from Ankh Records. Both CD's were produced by Manolis Angelakis, with Stathis Ioannou on the second release.