| Welcome to my website |
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“If I am loath to say out loud what I think to myself,
it is only because my voice is not strong enough”
Erik Satie (from
“A mammal’s notebooks”) |
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| I like most music unless it's wrong said Coleman
Hawkins. So when is it right? In the present day, the chasm (albeit a
connecting one) between the more corporeal perception of sonic activity
and the more abstract musical experience remains, regardless of the extreme
standardisation of commercial musical practice. To say what’s right and
what’s wrong is beside the point; but to know what is right is always
vital for any creative creature. |
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| This website, with its texts and ideas, images and
publicity materials is both an apology and an invitation. The apology
is for appearing to take part in a mercenary tradition, which could indirectly
contribute to the absolute establishment of profit-making practices in
music; practices which are visibly harmful for our Art, musicians and
audiences alike. However, the market mechanisms have grown too strong
and tyrannical to attempt ill-fated attacks against them. Instead of adopting
an extremist polemical attitude and ensuring defeat or even involuntary
collaboration, it’s preferable to choose to concede the lesser role of
the employable musician; with the hope that, through communicating an
essentially musical message, one can remain sensitive to one’s vocation
and vision and still remind and reassure listeners and readers that by
supporting an artist they are not customers or buyers of services, but
indispensable benefactors and patrons of Art. |
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| In the life of a young artist a misdeed or compromise
can become a dream or nightmare. Indeed sometimes this seems to be the
only way. Picasso spoke of Art as being lies that tell the truth:
the following pages are presented in a promotion-friendly manner, adhering
to the principles of current advertisement practice. Still, they are only
here to invite the visitor to a more significant quest for music and for
what can only be found outside words and meaning. |
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| Naturally, before I invite others I must identify my
vision and describe myself outside music, no simple task and one which
can be awkwardly revealing. What is pomposity for one is clarity of expression
for another: |
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| I was born in Greece in 1977 and speak and understand
the Greek and English languages. I chose to be a musician for life. I
am religious. And I believe in Stravinsky’s dictum that we have a
duty towards music, namely, to invent it. |
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| With the heart of the ancient, a medieval soul and
the mind of my time, I have chosen to attempt fulfilling this duty and
I invite you to exchange your time for mine. |
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