GIORGOS PSARAKIS - AKRA TOPOU ( UTTER EDGE ) USB WITH 16BOOKLET INSIDE

Crete within me is cliffs, deserted beaches, the shadow of an oak tree, mountains sometimes bare and sometimes full of the green of life, devout chapels, running waters, kind people and souls, pure company and glances. Places that empty the mind and fill the heart. Crete is full of such people, and I fell in love with them, I absorbed them and loved life and the moments there. In these places I felt peace within myself, I saw the clearest sky, the different light in the changing seasons, the golden harvested fields, I was abandoned in the frozen sea, in the bright sun, in the silent forests. I can speak of only one thing with certainty about this place. About this island. About its beauty. The one without any other. Everyone has seen it. But there is also something different. A hidden beauty. A hidden side. Such a beauty, that only those in love with this place have seen. Those who operate more with the heart. It is the beauty that exists where there is also an “Edge of place”. The title of this album was given for these places. For those places that have been a source of inspiration. Where I experienced bright, true moments that were engraved deeply in my memory. Where I breathed and saw the clearest sky during the day, where I counted the most stars at night. In the deserted chapels, where you feel Christ next to you and the Virgin Mary covering you. Where the prophet Elijah seems to advise you not to be jealous of riches and grandeur. In the cave of Agia Fotini, which teaches you to be silent. In the sea that redeems you. On the mountain peaks. In the pure breath of the wind. This whole place is blessed. Its hidden corners, however, are an encounter with God. He who has everything is not happy. But surely someone can be there where he finds rest for both the heart and the mind. Everything my heart has been hearing and seeing, lately, is in this album. “The mind looks. The heart sees.”

Giorgos Psarakis