Giorgis Xylouris presents the solo performance "HOMA".

With his lute and his voice, he seeks traces along the path where both
folk Cretan music
and the avant-garde influences of independent expression have settled in
his very personal language.

Life is an endless sequence. A concert is the same. It's a small life.
Impressions, sensations, feelings, towards what is happening, give birth
on the spot to a world that is all music. These moments of transcendence
and self-discovery are the language that transforms the world I live in.

It allows me to lose myself, to become someone who is born, lives, and
desires with intensity within the same piece that is heard. I'm excited
by the idea that when I lose a part of myself, I'm playing for the world
to be reborn.

I seek to delve deeper into the music and rhythmic forms that predate
western metrics. I come from a musical tradition, the cretan, rooted far
back in a world in which knowledge and perception of reality differed
greatly from today's.

But I sense that there is something that transcends all that distance in
time and that “something” is what I am really looking for. It has to do
with the fact that I consider sounds and silences in music a preverbal
state of a statement, an almost mystical secret, a revealing wisdom.

And the musical instrument in this sense keeps, expresses and transfers
that wisdom when it is played.

"Homa" is a work born from an instinctive and mature desire to pay
tribute and to inscribe in an authentic way in the tradition of Cretan
music that was bequeathed to me. I seek with deep admiration, respect
and simplicity the sounds which constitute the root of Cretan
traditional music and bridge the musical legacies of the Mediterrane-
an.

“Homa”, translated as "Dirt" , is the ground, the earth. It unites us,
allows us to walk, cultivate and dance on it. It is always below and
available to us. It's a natural and raw amalgam, unadulterated,
unadorned, unpretentious, it has no authorship, it belongs to everyone.
How to deliver a very personal music that belongs and vibrates to
everyone becomes the heart of my quest for this album. George Xylouris

https://georgexylouris.com/en/

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