Ancient Lyre & Drum - EPIC by Theo Koumartzis & Nikos Varelas

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The World we have Lost, the Lost Valleys of the Imagination.
Alexander Cockburn

On a time beyond living memory, extraordinary men and women dealt with the Gods and other superhuman forces, giving shape to the mortal universe of the generations to come. And their deeds were immortalized through poets and storytellers.
From the Epic of Gilgamesh (20th c. BC) and Homer's Odyssey (8th c. BC) to Ovid's Metamorphoses (8th c. AD) and Beowulf (8th-11th c. AD), every era had its very own epic poem. Some survived to this day, some did not.

Paying tribute to these long-forgotten epics, doomed to never be sung again, two ancient musical instrument players came together, and heavily improvised to end up with an original melody. This is their live performance at the shadowed and locked (due to the 2020 pandemic lockdown) SEIKILO Museum in Greece.

Ancient lyre: Theodore Koumartzis
Frame drum: Nikos Varelas

🎬 Film d'auteur: Nikolaos Koumartzis

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🎙️ Who is Nikos?
Nikos Varelas is a master percussionist with extensive studies in various techniques and types of frame drums.
He is an alumnus of the Music Science and Art Department of the University of Macedonia (Greece) and Erasmus alumnus of the Turkish Music State Conservatory (Istanbul Technical University).
He fine-tuned his art with the guidance of world-renowned percussionists, including Dimitris Barbas, Kostas Anastasiadis, Zohar Fresco, Misirli Ahmet, and others.
He currently lives in Thessaloniki but travels all over Greece and abroad to share his passion for percussions as part of various bands from completely different music genres.

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