This trio is a musical meeting between three young musicians who compose and perform their music, which is being influenced from various local musical genres of the Mediterranean area, where they all come from.
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.
“Orion” is the new CD that Stelios Petrakis has been working on for the past two years. The CD contains six works by Petrakis with lyrics by Mitsos Stavrakakis and Yannis Petrakis. read more..
New compositions based on the musical tradition of Crete, Asia Minor, Iran, and music of the Mediterranean countries. Featuring Giorgis Xylouris, Vassilis Stavrakakis and the outstanding percussionist Bijan Chemirani.
The meeting between Chemirani and Petrakis has been a long time in the making. For several years, they had performed alongside Irish-Cretan multi-instrumentalist Ross Daly. This first joint album confirms all the promise these two young artists have hinted at over the years. “Kismet” explores the rich seam of traditional music forged at the meeting point of Iranian and Greek music. Petrakis is a talented player of the lyra spike-fiddle popularised in Greece, and listeners can enjoy the melodic power of the string instrument in songs like “Efhi” (wish), composed by Petrakis.
