Tin Anixi Perimenes / You Waited For Spring (2015)

"Ever since the early 1980s Mitsos Stavrakakis, Vassilis Stavrakakis and I have been working together and we continue to do so up until the present day. I have always considered this cooperation to be one of the most enjoyable and fruitful of my career. This is due primarily to the bond of love and friendship which we share and which results in my relationship with Crete and its music being profoundly affected by my relationship with these two remarkable individuals. Indeed whenever I am working on a piece of music in a Cretan form, I automatically hear in my imagination Vassilis' characteristic voice bringing the vibrant imagery of Mitsos' verse into vivid focus in my mind's eye. On this recording we are accompanied by three young and outstanding musicians, Giorgos Manolakis, a laouto player, singer, Kelly Thoma playing the Lyra and Giannis Papatzanis who has been exploring for many years the potential for a deeper involvement of percussion instruments in Cretan music." (kellythoma.com)

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