The Lyre of Hermes - Nephelai (Nymphs of the Clouds)
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- A live performance of track 4, "Nephelai (Nymphs of the Clouds)", from my 2015 album, "The Lyre of Hermes". This album was recorded in collaboration with the latter day ancient Greek lyre makers "Luthieros", who are based in Thessaloniki, Greece
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The EP length album features a recreated 'chelys' - the tortoise shell form of lyre played in ancient Greece, which had a resonator either made from an actual tortoise shell, or from wood carved in the form of a tortoise shell.
The lyre I am playing, is the Lutherios "Lyre of Apollo III" model - massive in size, with a soundboard of goat skin & a tortoise shell style resonator made in much more resonant wood, the instrument is certainly worthy of the mythological deity which inspired its creation!
"The Lyre of Hermes" features original compositions in a selection of some of the original ancient Greek modes, in the wonderfully pure, just intonation of antiquity, inspired by the unique characteristics of the Nymphs of ancient Greek mythology. The album is available now, from all major digital music platorms - CD quality audio and a PDF of the detailed album notes available from Bandcamp:
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This piece started life as a spontaneous improvisation for solo chelys (tortoise shell form) replica ancient Greek lyre, in the intense ancient Greek Hypodorian mode (equivalent intervals as A-A on the white notes of the piano and misnamed the 'Aeolian' Mode in the Middle Ages), in the just intonation of antiquity. The drifty quality of the melodic lines attempt to suggest the dreamy, drifing motion of clouds.
My book, featuring sheet music of 13 of my original melodies for recreated ancient lyre is also published by Luthieros:
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Honestly just keep recording Michael cause you're like a living historian through music and it's only a matter of time before it breaks through to a wider audience. Thanks for inspiring a lot over the years, I still want to make my own harp someday.
Thanks so much for the encouragement! I think what you say is quite right - when I first set out to record & independently produce my stuff back in 2008, I found that the more more I actively attempted to promote myself, the more folk seemed to turn off...yet now, when I simply focus on creating music & globally digitally 'putting it out there', amazing things continue to happen, anything from telephone conferences with Rufus Wainwright to becoming the soundscape to Jeff Koons exhibitions, to being invited by the University of Oxford to musically accompany readings of translations of Ovid!
It is almost as if whatever positive creative engery one conjures forth into the cosmos, the cosmic consciousness inevitably will reward the effort!!
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Great! ANCIENT MUSIC IS REBORN ❤️
Great! ANCIENT MUSIC IS REBORN ❤️
Glad you appreciate my ongoing musical mission - to 'continue where the ancients left off'! In the clutter, chaos & discord of modern life, the minimalistic purity of the ancient timbre of recreated lyre is surely the perfect antidote!
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It is true. Give peace to the soul ❤️
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