George Xylouris

In the organizer's words:

Life is an endless sequence. A concert is the same.
It's a small life. Impressions, sensations, feelings,
towards what is happening, give birth on the spot
to a world that is all music.
These moments of transcendence and self
discovery are the language that transforms the
world I live in.
It allows me to lose myself, to become someone
who is born, lives, and desires with intensity within
the same piece that is heard.
I'm excited by the idea that when I lose a part of
myself, I'm playing for the world to be reborn.

With his lute and his voice, he seeks traces
along the path where both folk Cretan music
and the avant-garde influences of independent
expression have settled in his very personal
language.

I seek to delve deeper into the music and rhythmic forms
that predate western metrics. I come from a musical tradition, the
cretan, rooted far back in a world in which knowledge and perception
of reality differed greatly from today's. But I sense that there is
something that transcends all that distance in time and that
"something" is what I am really looking for. It has to do with the fact
that I consider sounds and silences in music a preverbal state of a statement, an
statement, an almost mystical secret, a revealing wisdom. And the
musical instrument in this sense keeps, expresses and transfers that
wisdom when it is played.
"Homa" is a work born from an instinctive and mature desire to
pay tribute and to inscribe in an authentic way in the tradition of
Cretan music that was bequeathed to me. I seek with deep admiration,
respect and simplicity the sounds which constitute the root of Cretan
traditional music and bridge the musical legacies of the Mediterrane
an. "Homa", translated as "Dirt", is the ground, the earth. It unites us,
allows us to walk, cultivate and dance on it. It is always below and
available to us. It's a natural and raw amalgam, unadulterated,
unadulterated, unadorned, unpretentious, it has no authorship, it belongs to everyone.
How to deliver a very personal music that belongs and vibrates to
everyone becomes the heart of my quest for this album.

George Xylouris - lute, voice

cover: 20/15€