Sentient Pattern Presents
GUBBU
LIDIS
Mihali & Zdenek
Savoulidis · Gubb
Chapter I
Born on
Orientation Day
Castleton State University, Vermont. September 2004. Two freshmen — Mihali Savoulidis and Ryan Dempsey — look at the official orientation schedule, look at each other, and walk away from it to go jam in a dorm room instead. Some bands are made. Some are inevitable.
Mihali came from New Jersey, carrying a Bob Marley flag and a reggae compilation from Camden Market London — a record containing Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin, whose sound Mihali described as "like a bumblebee exploded." That explosion never left his fingers.
I went to college to start a band. That was the whole plan.
— Mihali SavoulidisDrummer Brook Jordan joined through a pit band in a college play. Then came the pivotal move: a MySpace message to a kid still in high school — bassist Zdenek Gubb. He replied: "Awesome." He was already a fan. By 2007, Zdenek stepped in and, as Mihali later said, that was when Twiddle truly began.
Chapter II
Two Voices,
One Current
Every great band has a center of gravity. For Twiddle it was always the axis between guitar and bass — between Mihali's soaring melodic architecture and Zdenek's deep, Earth Wind & Fire-schooled groove. They didn't play off each other. They thought off each other.
Guitar · Vocals · Vision
Mihali Savoulidis
Half-Greek, New Jersey born. Came to Vermont with a reggae tape and left a legend. His guitar sings — lyrical, searching, never the same solo twice. Dropped out after one semester. Best decision he ever made.
Bass · Vocals · Soul
Zdenek Gubb
Vermont native. Got the MySpace message while still in high school. Grew up on Earth, Wind & Fire and The Bee Gees. His bass doesn't follow — it leads from beneath, the pulse everything dances on top of.
Chapter III
Eighteen Years
on the Road
They built it the old way: van, rehearsal, show, repeat. First at Nectar's for 100 people. Then sold out. Then Red Rocks, Bonnaroo, Electric Forest, their own festival on the Burlington waterfront. 100M+ streams. 1,300+ documented live performances. A fanbase — the Twiddiots — who sustained it all.
The Catalog
Sound Archive
A / V Archive
Sound & Vision
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Live footage · Studio cuts · Deep jams
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Gubbulidis · Twiddle · anything
For Josie
The Initiation · Maine · March 7, 2026
You Were
Thought of First
The message came at midnight. "Do you want to come to a show in Maine with me March 7th?" And you said yes. Because of course you said yes.
You're going to stand in a room where Mihali Savoulidis plays guitar like a bumblebee exploded, and Zdenek Gubb holds down the bottom of the universe, and something is going to happen to you that doesn't have a name yet.
That's what live music does when it's the right live music at the right moment. The auto garage will still be there Monday. The welding torch will wait. March 7th only happens once.