STELIOS VASILAKIS - LIVE RECORDING

Dear friends,

In my long journey to the paths of Cretan music tradition there have been some moments that have been a station and I will always remember with great emotion. Such a station is also the live recording that you hold in your hands. Along with my colleagues, Manolis Saloustros and Dimitris Makridakis in the Lute "we dressed" music, in the Spring of 1992, the feasts and dances of the Cretans of Athens, with the songs of Th.Scordalou, K.Mounttaki, N.Kilouris, X.Markokiannakis, my own .a. as well as with traditional purposes. Eleven years have passed since the "Crete" Center in Athens, under the direction of Messrs. Giorgos Bassalou and Kyriakos Koinakis presented this slavery in an epic space for the Cretans of the capital and all of Greece. True to the musical tradition of our place and against the stream of all sorts of suspicious "modernizations" of our musical heritage, we are still trying to become the followers of the work of the founders of Cretan music. I want to believe that these listenings will remain unchanged in time and the next generations will continue to honor and give them the place they deserve.

Stelios Vasilakis