The Cretan Quartet is an ensemble consisting of four exceptional young musicians, presenting Cretan music and dance old and new, harmoniously combining love and respect with modern creativity. Making use of the differences between the roots, inheritance, local idioms and instruments with which each musician is familiar, the ensemble presents a wide spectrum of Cretan music from one end of the island to the other.
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A journey through centuries of Crete’s history via its elegiac musical traditions
A couple of years ago I came across an extraordinary CD while idly thumbing through the stacks of a music store in Istanbul. On its cover was a beautifully fretted pear-shaped fiddle made of mulberry wood and decorated with fine filigree inlay. It was of a shape and curve I had only seen once before, years earlier on the Anatolian leg of a journey along the Silk Route to China. The spike fiddle had then been played by a pair of elderly Pontic Greeks from the hills behind Trebizond and I had loved the sad, moving and oddly timeless music of the two brothers: it seemed to contain all the tragedy of the Greeks of Asia Minor in its falling Byzantine maqam scales and its sweeping, sawing bow strokes.
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The new cd “Mavra Froudia” from Petrakis – Lopez – Chemirani Trio is currently on number 3 at the European World Music Charts.
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“Melodiko Karavi” and “Mohlos Studio” are proud to announce the release of the new cd of the trio Stelios Petrakis, Efren Lopez and Bijan Chemirani, “Mavra Froudia” (Black eyebrows). The cd contains seven original compositions and one traditional piece from the island of Karpathos. read more..
Mohlos Studio is proud to announce the release of the new cd of Giorgis Xylouris and Stelios Petrakis “Si je salue les montagnes” from the French label Accords-Croises (www.accords-croises.com). The cd had been recorded in Mohlos Studio on May 2009. read more..
My last cd “Orion” was the winner of the Just Plain Folks 2009 music awards @ “world music” category.
Just Plain Folks is a community of over 51,500 Songwriters, Recording Artists and Music Industry Professionals — and host to the world’s largest independent music awards. The organization was created to provide a network of cooporation and inclusion for musicians.
The Just Plain Folks Music Awards were started in 1999 as a simple way to recognize the best music submitted by members. read more..
