Diary Third
Agra – 978-960-505-261-4 (2016)
Colleagues, friends, musicians often get together during a break in rehearsal, between recording sessions, or before a concert, and with a kind of touching, frenzied enthusiasm, they tend to play the music they love. Songs, improvisations, covers, or something they’ve composed themselves.
These personal moments of each individual -which may also be their deepest desires- and which I have persistently eavesdropped on, been swept up in, and confided in myself over the past few years, I thought to gather in the Diary.
I would like the Diary to be seen not as a musical recording of an album, but almost as an eavesdropping on my friends’ feelings.
If I were keeping notes for an audio diary, these are the ones I would keep.
Nikos Xydakis
From the Diary, December 1995
Narration | Dimitris Maronitis (1), Vassilis Papavassileiou (8), Dionyssis Kapsalis (13), Nikos Xydakis (26)
Singing | Maria Farantouri (6), Nana Binopoulou (11), Olia Lazaridou (18), Nikos Xydakis (20, 23)
Musicians:
Violin | Alexandros Papadiamantis (9), Haris Gkitzos (9), Sergios Gargalas (12)
Viola | Artemis Samaras (9), Sergios Gargalas (12)
Viola da gamba | Angelos Repapis (10, 21)
Cello | Michalis Porfiris (3, 9, 12, 15)
Double bass | Yorgos Papapetrou (3), Vaggelis Zografos (12)
Lyra | Zacharis Spyridakis (12), Yeorgia Dagaki (24)
Guitar | Fotis Mylonas (20), Kostas Papageorgiou (24)
Kanun | Panos Dimitrakopoulos (14, 19)
Trumpet | Socrates Anthis (4)
Saxophone | Dimitris Hountis (23, 25)
Piano | Dimitris Bouzanis (3, 11, 24), Fotis Mylonas (17), Nikos Xydakis (23)
Electric Piano | Kora Michaelian (27)
Keyboards | Fotis Mylonas (6, 20)
Musical Ensembles:
Al Mahabba (2)
Camerata Orchestra (4)
Quartet Echo (9)
01. Resume of C. P. Cavafy – Dimitris Maronitis
02. Lama Bada – Instrumental
(Al Mahabba)
03. Summers of Egypt – Instrumental
(Nikos Xydakis)
04. Odyssey – Instrumental
(Yorgos Kouroupos)
05. Hoofbeats
06. Mars, God (Chorus from The Seven Against Thebes) – Maria Farantouri
(Nikos Xydakis – Aeschylus / Kostis Kolotas)
07. From Athens to Beijing – Instrumental
(Nikos Xydakis)
08. The Poem of Esther Bessalel – Vassilis Papavassileiou
(Nikos Eggonopoulos)
09. Élégie – Instrumental
(Gabriel Fauré)
10. Tristre Plaisir – Instrumental
(Gilles Binchois)
11. Melancholy – Nana Binopoulou
(Nikos Xydakis – Kiki Dimoula)
12. Serenity – Instrumental
(Yorgos Andreou)
13. Rezenta – Dionyssis Kapsalis
(Dionyssis Kapsalis)
14. The Train Has Gone – Instrumental
(Manos Hadzidakis)
15. Corpus Poeticus I – Instrumental
(Thodoris Oeconomou)
16. Plates
17. Spring Clouds – Instrumental
(Fotis Mylonas)
18. I See Nothing Else – Olia Lazaridou
(Nikos Xydakis – Helias Layos)
19. Suite in E Minor, Courante – Instrumental
(Johann Sebastian Bach)
20. Heavenly States – Nikos Xydakis
(Nikos Xydakis – Vassilis Mavrogeorgiou)
21. Love’s Farewell – Instrumental
(Tobias Hume)
22. Sound
23. I Was Looking for a mother
(Nikos Xydakis – Michalis Ganas)
24. Sailing upstream – Instrumental
(Kostas Papageorgiou)
25. Do Something So I Miss the Train – Instrumental
(Takis Moussafiris)
26. Have I Done Something? – Nikos Xydakis
27. All along – Nikos Xydakis
(Nikos Xydakis – Dionyssis Kapsalis)
