The latest project of this three musicians recognized in different disciplines: Stelios Petrakis, one of the most well-known performers and makers of Cretan lyra al lute of the new generation. Efrén López, Valencian multiinstrumentalist founder of L'Ham de Foc and collaborator with many bands dedicated to European Early music, and percussionist Bijan Chemirani, born into a musical family and heir to the great tradition of persian zarb. We proposed a program of original compositions based on rhythms and scales of different backgrounds: Crete and other Greek islands, Medieval Europe, Turkey and Iran.

STELIOS PETRAKIS

Cretan lyra, Cretan laouto

Composer, instrumentalist and instrument maker, Stelios Petrakis makes music influenced both by the music of his native Crete as other related traditions he has studied for years (Greece, Asia Minor, Istanbul, Iran, etc ...). He has released three solo albums in collaboration with great musicians from the music scene in the island. He performs regularly with his band in concerts in Crete and abroad in Europe, and collaborated with Ross Daly, Keyvan Chemirani, Manolo García or Stamatis Spanoudakis. His latest CD "Orion" was in the Top 10 of 2009 of the British magazine "Songlines" and was awarded the "Just Plain Folks" in Indianapolis / USA.

EFRÉN LÓPEZ

hurdy-gurdy, rabab, fretless guitar, kopuz, laouto

Multiinstrumentalist founder of the bands L'Ham de Foc, Aman Aman and Sabir among others, and contributor to many projects in Early and Roots Music (Ross Daly, Oni Wytars, Maria del Mar Bonet, Capella de Ministrers...). He approaches the Medieval and Traditional Music through the study of modal musical systems (makam, raga...) working together with great masters of Greece, Turkey, Afghanistan and India (Ross Daly, Necati Çelik, Erol Parlak, Mehmet Erenler, Erdal Erzincan, Daud Khan, Ustad Mohammed Rahim Khusnawaz, Yurdal Tokcan, Ajoy Chakrabakhti ...). He has performed in prestigious festivals throughout Europe, North Africa, America and China and participated in the recording of more than 60 CD's.

BIJAN CHEMIRANI

zarb, bendir, daf

The youngest member of the Chemirani family, Bijan participates in all projects of the family trio, dedicated to the zarb (or tombak), the main Iranian percussion instrument. He works regularly with Irish musician Ross Daly. For a whi he was living in Crete where he shared a number of musical performances with Stelios Petrakis and other important musicians from the island like Xilouris Giorgos Stavrakakis Vassilis. He now lives in Marseille (France), where he organizes percussion woekshops and works on a project with Sam Karpienian, singer of Dupain. Has released the solo albums "Eos" and "Gulistan", and he is the director of the group Oneira.

Mavra froudia-Celles negres (2011)

Mavra froudia (E. López)

Hortus deliciarum (E. López)

A. A. A. A. A. A. A. (E. López)

Üç telli (S. Petrakis)

Saros (S. Petrakis)

Vídeo


Mavra froudia/Celles negres	Sybritos	Live concert at Musée du Quai Branly (Paris)
(Efrén López)	(Stelios Petrakis)	(May 2012)

Audio

Live at Chapelle de l'Observance (Draguignan/France), October 2, 2011

	To alogaki tis nyhtas (S. Petrakis)
	Hortus deliciarum (E. López)
	Rizitiko (trad. Creta)
	Voreia monopatia (S. Petrakis)
	Mavra froufia (E. López)
	A. A. A. A. A. A. A. (E. López)

Pictures

Manresa, November 5, 2010

(photos: Joan Solé)

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