A Platform for Ethnically and Culturally Inspired Music
About "Akou Ourane Mou / Helal "
Events of the last year
that shook Greece and Turkey
Brought Panagiotis Sdoukos and Fide Köksal together once again, creating a bridge between the two opposite shores of the Aegean Sea, with their new song "Akou Ourane mou / Helal"
In this context
The two artists continuing their successful collaboration that has begun on stage converse lyrically
with the language of music that unites and exceeds any other language that divides and separates
Two Voices - two Cultures embrace and convey a message of unity, hope and support through
"Akou, Ourane mou / Helal’’
A song where West meets East in an ensemble of piano, strings (cümbüş, sazi, lute, and violin) and Armenian wind instrument, the duduk
A song that you whisper sometimes as a lullaby sometimes as a prayer or sob (let not this place become a "desert land" and Man...an inhuman "threat"
Coefficients
Panagiotis Sdoukos: Composer, song, Greek lyrics
Fide Köksal: Song, Turkish lyrics
George Pappas:
cümbüş, sazi, lafta, lute, bass, piano, music editing, orchestration and recording mixing
Xristos Dalianis:
Violins, composition of instrumental parts
Tigran Sargsyan: Duduk
Giannis Papagiannoulis: Percussion
Mastering by Gregory Galanis @ Mutant Bit
George Spanos: Cinematography - Editing
Recording and mixing were done at Seaside Studio