Greek Music Express: Mountains: Art songs about mountains | 09 Jan 2024

Our menu today includes a fascinating array of art-song performers, including Dimitris Zervoudakis and the Three Mountains, Lizeta Kalimeri and the Unconquered Mountains, and Thanasis Moraitis and the Good Mountains. Mountains, in this genre, are locations of mystery and imagination – symbols of nature but also of isolation, of departure. Mikres Periplaniseis sing: “I step on the edges of the mountains, the edges of my thoughts / I am followed by two clouds and my past loves”.