Label: FLEE

このシリーズは非常にヤバいです!!主にハイブリッドなカルチャーの在り方を様々な形で提示するフランスのレコードレーベル/出版社FLEE。本作はエーゲ海に突き出したアトス半島の先端にそびえる、聖なる山として知られる"アトス山"周辺の修道院関係の音楽にフォーカスした2LP作[ECHOES FROM THE HOLY MOUNTAIN]。島内には20の修道院が存在し、日々約2,000人の修道士達が祈りと礼拝に身を捧げ、それらを数年に渡る調査にてサウンドアーカイヴとして纏め作品化したのがコレ。ビザンティン聖歌に根ざしたアカペラの伝統は祈りと瞑想の中間的な様相であり、複雑でありながらも穏やかなメロディーを特徴した崇高過ぎる表現。ゲートフォールド仕様のジャケットデザインも素晴らしい。

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Mount Athos, known as the «Holy Mountain,» is a monastic peninsula in northeastern Greece, central to Eastern Orthodox monasticism for over a millennium. Its twenty monasteries house around 2,000 monks dedicated to prayer and worship, which songs have echoed across the Aegean Sea for centuries, heard only by visiting pilgrims, isolated from conventional time and global events. After several years of research, and several visits to the retired community, we are happy to present our new project «Athos : Echoes from the Holy Mountain» dedicated to this liturgic music and repertoire that seems to be evolving outside the usual boundaries of time and space. Rooted in Byzantine chant, this a cappella tradition essential to monastic life featuring intricate yet serene melodies designed to facilitate prayer and contemplation, using a system of modes and scales to create a meditative atmosphere.

Trans-disciplinary, this effort of documentation also comprehends an artistic re-interpretation aspect inviting contemporary Greek and foreign artists to reflect on the subject. A musical compilation which captures original field recordings from the 1960s and from today capturing the essence of liturgical music on Mount Athos, but also new compositions inspired by them by artists such as Holy Tongue (UK), Jay Glass Dubs (GR), Prins Emanuel & Inre Kresten Grupp (SWE), Jimi Tenor (FI), Gilb’r (FR), Daniel Paleodimos (GR), Esma & Murat Ertel (TUR) and Organza Ray (GR/US).