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Butterfly

Guitar Kanun Duet

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Format: CD

Cat No: ODRCD702

Release Date:  24 May 2019

Label:  Odradek Records

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  0859024006020

Genres:  World Music  World Music  

  • Description

    World-premiere recordings of music for a unique combination: Western classical guitar and the kanun, a zither-like Eastern string instrument performed by Vassilis Ketentzoglou and Sofia Labropoulou.

    Versatile Greek musicians Vassilis Ketentzoglou and Sofia Labropoulou have created a repertory for this unprecedented combination, resulting in a new and fresh musical soundworld; a meeting of minds and cultures. On one hand, there is the guitar: a fretted, well-tempered, polyphonic "Western" string instrument; on the other, the kanun: a zither-like "Eastern" string instrument, capable of playing microtonal scales, and typically played as a monophonic solo instrument. As this release demonstrates, these musicians have found innovative ways to blend these contrasting musical worlds: the guitar sometimes becomes an "Eastern" solo instrument, playing microtonal melodies and ornamenting as Middle Eastern instruments do, and the kanun becomes like a "Western" instrument, playing chords or even counterpoint.

    The album's eponymous Butterfly symbolises bringing these instruments out of their cocoon, emerging into a colourful world in which guitar and kanun do not simply co-exist but blossom together as one.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Vassilis Ketentzoglou - Epistrophe
      • 2. Sofia Labropoulou - Kanun Improvisation
      • 3. Sofia Labropoulou - Bolero
      • 4. Vassilis Ketentzoglou - Mavra Poulia
      • 5. Sofia Labropoulou - Korakan
      • 6. Vassilis Ketentzoglou - Guitar Improvisation
      • 7. Vassilis Ketentzoglou - Arlin
      • 8. Vassilis Ketentzoglou - Tsakitzis
      • 9. Vassilis Ketentzoglou & Sofia Labropoulou - Neveser Medley
      • 10. Sofia Labropoulou - Prologos