IOANNIDIS NIKOLAOS -12 STRING GUITAR WORKS

All songs in this album are written (music and lyrics) and arranged by IOANNIDIS NIKOLAOS

Performance of all instruments and vocals: IOANNIDIS NIKOLAOS

OTHER WORKS BY IOANNIDIS NIKOLAOS

ESSAYS

Essays on Music and Media

LYRICS

LYRICS (1) || LYRICS (2)  Ancient Greek epic and lyrical poems

translated and set to music by Ioannidis Nikolaos

MUSICAL WORKS

CD ALBUM: The Music of Ancient Greeks - Early Epic and Lyrical Poetry  An approach to the original singing of ancient Greek epic and lyrical poetry of the 8th-5th century B.C. with the use of 
  ancient Greek and contemporary folk instruments (ancient kithara, folk woodwinds- zournas, ney, flogera- classical guitar, ethnic percussion).
 

CD ALBUM: Mass insanity  Political songs dealing with the dominant political, social, and ethical issues of our time: the erosion of the nation state, globalization, terrorism, the moral and cultural decadence of modern society. Diversity of styles (blending of Ethnic, Rock, Classical); exhibition of  virtuosity in guitar (electric guitar,  fretless electric guitar, 12-string guitar) and ethnic percussion performance.

CD ALBUM: Music and Religion Religious music from different cultures (extant ancient Greek religious songs, Byzantine chant, Gregorian chant, Quranic Suras) 

English opera Oedipus Rex  Audio excerpt of this work is available online in mp3 format. Also available is the complete Greek text of Sophocles' tragedy "Oedipus the king" edited by IOANNIDIS

CD ALBUM: BE A MASTER OF YOUR FATE!  Classical, jazz, ethnic songs with political lyrical subjects: the inadequacy of the present political system of governance, the moral and cultural decadence of modern society, the role of dominant value systems in environmental destruction, etc.

CD ALBUM: AREN'T YOU FED UP? . Classical, Rock, Ethnic songs with political lyrical subjects

Works under publication

ALBUM: Ancient Kithara Works

ALBUM: The most spoken word 

ALBUM: Music and Philosophy 

ALBUM: The Rock collection