IOANNIS (JOHN) STERGIOU: New Single/Video "For Akritas"
[2022-09-29]
Guitarist / composer / producer Ioannis (John) Stergiou presents the single / video “For Akritas” taken by his new solo album entitled “?o Laouto Tou Pappou” (Grandpa's Lute). Out now and available to buy and stream from the artist's bandcamp page and all streaming platforms.
"To Laouto tou Pappou" (Grandpa's Lute) is a project that emerged as an idea in 2021 and was implemented in 2022 receiving a scholarship from GEMA within the framework of Neue Start Kultur.
This project is different from anything I've done so far mainly because of its emotional value and then because of the different musical approach I followed in it.
It's all about the lute of my grandfather, my mother's father, musician and craftsman of another era and culture.
His name was Alexios Fakos. He was born in 1925 in Marmara, Ioannina and learned clarino from his father Vassilios Fakos from Veltsista, Ioannina. In Marmara, in the village where we spent our summers during our childhood with our grandparents, we learned what it means to really live. Away from "civilization" and amenities. There we had the chance to live up close to ''Mastralexis'', who managed to create whatever he had in mind, from a small work of art to an entire building, despite the lack of means. There was nothing he could not do. As a musician of that time, however, he managed to create not only his own instruments (such as his formidable clarinets) but the tools he needed as well. He also made guitars and greel lutes. One of these instruments came into my hands a few years ago…
All songs composed, arranged and produced by John Stergiou.
Recorded at Cornerstone and Pirate Studios Berlin.
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All instruments were performed by John Stergiou (lute, guitars, bass, drums and percussions, clarinet) plus:
Giorgos Avramis – Gaida
Chris Berg – Cello
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