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Though he says that he does not have a homeland as he travels often, he
has lived in
Crete
more than anywhere else, 10 years in Chania and 10 in
Iraklion
.
He has established lately a
Musical
Center
at Houdetsi, near
Iraklion,
including a folkloric instruments museum
…
I deal with musical instruments from when I was 4 years old! My mother
is a piano player and initially learned me to play the piano. However
suddenly I made my small personal revolution turned in studying the
cello till I was 10, then
tried classic guitar and so on… Some years later, I began to deal with
traditional music, having the first stimuli from
San Francisco
where I was staying
then. It was the ‘60’s and musical tradition of the East,
particularly of
India
, was on the rise.
Thus I began to study sitar in
England
, I started traveling,
one thing brings the other, as it always happens …
...my
first visit in
Greece
, was in
Crete
, where I heard the
lyre which impressed me greatly. You know, outside
Greece
the general
impression is that Greek music is only bouzouki,
and not even the “right” bouzouki. We listen to sirtaki
and the popular songs of '60’s but I consider it has been degenerated.
No one knows that there are lyres, lutes, santouri… If you say to a
foreigner that the most widespread Greek instrument is the clarinet, you
will pass for insane!
…
Improvisation is to act musically and experience the moment. This means
that to live the moment, you have to leave yourself otherwise you will
not succeed. … |
