Melpomeni’s Tales

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Alternative Stage sponsor: PPC (Public Power Company)

Listen to the first song (“Tis Agapis”) from the new album here.

Michalis and Pantelis Kalogerakis, the twin brothers from Heraklion, Crete, who have been setting poetry to music since they were sixteen years old, are presenting their new album titled Melpomeni’s Tales at the GNO Alternative Stage in the SNFCC, on Saturday 29 June, at 20.30.

The new piece Melpomeni’s Tales by the Kalogerakis brothers includes songs and tales based on poems by various poets such as Michalis Ganas, Pantelis Kalogerakis, Nikos Moschovakos, Jacques Prévert, Jalaluddin Rumi, Giannis Stigas, Tonia Tzirita Zacharatou and others. Original musical compositions inspired by poems written over a decade will be presented for the first time by an ensemble of distinguished musicians: Alexis Stenakis (clarinet), Stratis Skourkeas (percussion), Giannis Papageorgiou (guitar), Stratos Grinztalis (bouzouki, mandolin), and Lambros Papanikolaou (double bass).

Following their collaboration with Martha Frintzila on the album Voukolikon (2015), and with Maria Farantouri on the album Prosopiko (2016), as well as the albums Kati Paraxeno (2017), Rimbautika (2021), and Varvara Project (2023), Michalis and Pantelis Kalogerakis continue their successful journey with a new work filled with spoken and sung word.

Melpomeni’s Tales

The first of the new songs, titled“Tis Agapis” (About Love), is one of the most famous poems by Michalis Ganas, and it has been set to music and performed by Michalis Kalogerakis.

Pantelis Kalogerakis will recite excerpts from poems included in his first personal poetry collection titled EXTrA.

Also featuring Nefeli Fasouli.

A few words about the concert

Snapshots of longing and despair.
Tales where we have learnt that what is wrong is right and what is right is wrong, along with their antidote-tales.
Snapshots of visibility and revolution.
Street tales, tales of joy, steeped in dreams.

The language of fairy tales, associated with the poems featured in the performance, will be used to console and mitigate melancholy.

All this and some more are Melpomeni’s Tales.

The songs will be recorded live.

— Michalis & Pantelis Kalogerakis