The second installment in my song-a-week program is a very special one, as it features some great musicians I know from Crete ~ Giorgos Papaioannou on violin, Giannis Dermitzakis on oud, and Jérôme Salomon on percussion. Here is Filyra (Linden), a new composition in 10/8 curcuna time, written and recorded in Houdetsi, Crete.


Filyra (linden)

Composition in 12 beats

Giorgos Papaioannou (Violin)
Marijia Katsouna (Frame drum)
Giannis Dermitzakis (Oud & composition)

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Giannis studied oud with Giorgos Mavromanolakis at the "Chorodion academy of music" in Heraklion, Crete. He participated in seminars on "Turkish style oud", "Rhythmical & free improvisation" and "The Phrasing of Makam" at the Labyrinth Musical Workshop with Yurdal Tokcan, Harris Lambrakis, Kyriakos Tapakis and Ross Daly respectively as well as taken part as a student in an ensemble of Labyrinth Musical Workshop under Ross Daly's direction. He has performed during the presentation of Dimosthenis Karagiannis's book ""To moiroloi tis Ekavis" and in various music festivals in Greece and in Italy. He has also composed music for documentary film " When i hear the boats whistle" and for the short film "Partitoura - Erofili" (Production: Municipality of Heraklion, Direction: Maria Gaitanidi)

 He has collaborated with Giorgos Papaioannou, Manolis Kanakakis, Giorgos Mavromanolakis, Glafkos Smarianakis, Marijia Katsouna, Michalis Kotis, Eugenia Toli, Peter Jaques, Theodora Athanasiou, Fanis Karousos, Giannis Papatzanis, Zoi Vergaki amongst others. He founded Tarab in 2015 with Themis Polyzoakis and Eleanna Papanikolopoulou. In Ierapetra he leads a traditional music enseble working on songs and tunes of Anatolia and the Aegean islands and researching improvisation techniques.

 He holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, and he is an Msc student at the Open University in Sound Design and Digitalisation. In colaboration with director / performer Maria Gaitanidi gave a presentation of their project: "Ερωφίλη - παρτιτούρα (Erofili - score), practical experiments with an oud and a voice", on TaPRA 2021 conference, which was hosted online in partnership with Liverpool Hope University. He also used to teach "Oud" and "Rythmical improvisation" at the Music School of Ierapetra.



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Giannis Dermitzakis

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