Butterfly - V. Ketentzoglou / S. Labropoulou

1. 01 – Epistrophe
   
2. 02 – Kanun improvisation
   
3. 03 – Bolero
   
4. 04 – Mavra Poulia
   
5. 05 – Korakan
   
6. 06 – Guitar improvisation
   
7. 07 – Arlin
   
8. 08 – Tsakitzis
   
9. 09 – Neveser medley
   
10. 10 – Prologos
    

Butterfly – Vassilis Ketentzoglou & Sofia Labropoulou – Guitar and Kanun Duet

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. These musicians have found innovative ways to blend contrasting musical worlds: the guitar sometimes becomes an ‘Eastern’ solo instrument, playing microtonal melodies and using Middle Eastern ornamentation, 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.
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Booklet in English, livret en français, Ένθετο στα ελληνικά