MICHAEL PAVLAKIS - AERAS MERAKLIDIKOS

The musical tradition of the Rethymnon South has remained virtually unaltered in the last centuries and, in keeping with its proportions, has been preserved. Persons, everyday people, couples and shepherds, workers of the land and the wilderness, were transforming the night into artists, musicians, singers, dancers, passionate merciless people, who formed their own entertainment, became spiritual creators themselves, this creativity of the next generations. Honeymoons in the cafeteria, the feast, and the fair of the village brought audiences to the apron of the man of their time.

Mihalis Pavlakis is trying to get this climate. And he does it through this Cd. Syrta Kalogeridis, conviers of Aivasilioti, ammanes, songs of the wedding and old traditional songs, are unrolled through melodies reminding of the beautiful musical connotations of old Meraclides of Rethymno.