ANCIENT MEDITATIONS. Greek myths for mythical departures

by Playades

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1.	The Abandonment: Theseus and Ariadne 04:13	info	buy track
2.	The Argonauts at the beginning 04:42	info	buy track
3.	Leaving Ithaca 03:07	info	buy track
4.	Orpheus and Eurydice 03:10	info	buy track
5.	Orion and Pleiades 03:34	info	buy track
6.	Parnasus 03:42	info	buy track
7.	Pleiades 01:22	info	buy track

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Our first album, mysteriously titled "Ancient Meditations," is just the first act of a far greater project.
The soothing sound of the lyre and the immerging beats of the ancient bendir give birth to an ancient world full of tales, poems, and fragments of epic stories, lost in time and space.
And as Hesiod* would say, twenty-seven centuries ago, "The Pleiades plunge into the misty deep" to rediscover the past through contemporary lenses.

credits

released September 29, 2021

In studio:
Lyre 7 strings Aphrodite* in studio by Fabio Esposito
Bendir in studio by Francesco Sotgiu

*The Lyre is produced by Luthieros( luthieros.com )

Sound engineering by Davide Cristiani

Cover, illustration and booklet design by Lisa Mattioli
Art advisor by Deborah Verrascina
Logo illustration by Niccolo Rinaldi
English content by MariaElena Vignoli

Special thanks to:
Theodore Koumartzis, Nikolaos Koumartzis and Maria Sarigiannidou for their precious suggestions, their emotional and professional support: we still have to learn from them and we hope they are proud of us

Thanks to:
Davide Folloni and Francesca Capuozzo for the future live performances;
our families and our friends all around the world.

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Playades Bomporto, Italy

PLAYADES is a musical project that was born out of an inner desire to rediscover our shared ancient heritage world culture and mythology.

Ancient and modern sounds give birth to a new ambient music full of tales, poems, and fragments of epic stories, lost in time and space.

2022: Ancient Meditations Tour
2023: Archaikos Tour with Fuochi Antichi ... more

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