thanks to margriet greydanus, this appeared on my FB page - lovely, exhuberent playing:
thanks to margriet greydanus, this appeared on my FB page - lovely, exhuberent playing:
That's lovely - I really like his sense of phrasing.
Very beautiful playing. It's amazing how versatile a mandolin can be.
BJ
He's a great player (and also a good singer).
Stelios Petrakis has a newish quartet which features mandolin.
(The mandolin starts to feature at 11.45)
Last edited by Dagger Gordon; Oct-28-2016 at 3:45am.
David A. Gordon
Thank you for sharing this wonderful video! Beautiful piece and masterfully played.
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Very nice! I love that bass lyra. I have never seen one of those.
Jim
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Some good mandolin here.
David A. Gordon
Absolutely uplifting to the spirits!
Nic Gellie
I was in Crete last June and my mind was blown by the music and the place. We're going back this year!
Michalis Kontaxakis is also famous for blazing new trails in Cretan music and sometimes teaches at this very interesting school in Heraklion:
http://labyrinthmusic.gr/en/seminari...lin-kontaxakis (nice L&H, Michalis!)
One from his YT channel:
This is a nice atmospheric video of what looks like Michael Kontaxakis playing at Semeli Cafe across the road from the Labyrinth Music Workshop in Houdetsi, Crete. Really good sound on the mandolin.
David A. Gordon
Yes I went there in March, to a Group Workshop led by Spanish musician Efren Lopez, of whom I am a huge fan. There were only 5 of us along with Efren.
Efren has just done another one last week as part of the summer programme, with far more participants. (Check his Facebook page).
It was really great and I got a lot out of it, but I didn't find it easy. It helps if your sight reading is pretty good, as some of the rhythms are very different from what I'm used to.
A Cretan mandolin-specific seminar might be easier, maybe.
I didn't have time to see much of the island. There are classes every day with quite a long lunch break, so I just decided to stay where I was, although we did manage to visit some nearby villages.
Crete is not as easy to get to in winter as you might think, by the way. I couldn't find a direct flight to Heraklion in mid-March. Had to fly to Athens then get a small local flight. There were very few people on either of the Athens -Heraklion flights.
David A. Gordon
Thanks David, sounds good, I’ll have a look.
Michael Kontaxakis again
David A. Gordon
Cookin’!
David A. Gordon
This is what Cretan music sounds like. Lyra and lauto. Magic.
David A. Gordon
Thanks Dagger, that’s impressive to see the determination in the finger movements. Who are these guys?
Giorgis Xylouris on lauto and Zacharias Spyridakis on lyra. They seem to be in the workshop of Stelios Petrakis (who briefly appears). These guys are actually pretty big names in Cretan music.
https://www.labyrinthmusic.gr/en/sem...s-spyridakis-2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgos_Xylouris
http://www.steliospetrakis.com/?lang=en
David A. Gordon
Here is a short film of Zacharias Spyridakis talking about the influence of Ross Daly, with some more good music clips.
https://vimeo.com/293912713
It looks like the interview and performances were done at Labyrinth Music Workshop in Houdetsi, who have just announced their winter programme:
https://www.labyrinthmusic.gr/en/lat...rs-summer-2020
David A. Gordon
Hello to everyone! I will post some of the best mandolin players in Crete..In my opinion of course..Check them !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KT3whYdJZ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=591AEt71Yz0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6v_ES8Sc5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSfiFUZoqLM
Thanks, Cretan. Lovely playing. I see that Nostos by Kostis Avissinos is available for download on Amazon here in the US. How about the other players.
Jim
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Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Because of my mistake i didn't post the legend of mandolin in Crete !
Stavrakakis Michalis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5d8uTqNuL4
And also another special player is Stavrakakis Antonis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehq5VNBFQAU
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