Singer-songwriter Dimitris Verionis has the island of Naxos as a key source of inspiration. Naxos, in fact, forms the background of the love story described in the album “Photographs from Naxos”. However, it is not just a background, he explains. I have an experiential relationship with the island, going there since I was 16 years old. But also in my previous album, “The Summer of Straw”, there were tracks that had Naxos as a point of reference. The first summer that I spent there was in 1988 and the island remains a favorite place for me.
Panos Bousalis second album is titled Sembreviva: “The title is probably a wish for everything that we make to be long-lasting, whether in art or in life in general. Let time travel beautifully. Sembreviva means, loosely translated, ‘lives forever’ and is the name of a small flower, which is the trademark of the island of Kythera. It is a somewhat utopian condition that exists in art anyway. Let love and music last, if you wish. I don’t know if there is anything coherent about this work. I didn’t seek to establish coherence”.
Produced and presented by Hercules Economou