Άμμος

Featuring : Glen Velez, Haig Yazdjian, Ross Daly, Christos Tsiamoulis, Manos Ahalinotopoulos

Giorgos Maglaras had explicitly shown his composing trend in the albums "PNOES" and "Trough Memories", being one of the most significant musicians in the Greek jazz scene and indisputably the greatest violinist in his domain. In "Ammos", Maglaras returns to his roots. A descendant of a family of great musicians and his father being a violinist, he feels the music tradition running in his veins. And if his relationship with tradition was unconsciously present in everything he had created to date, In "Ammos" it is outspoken. Maglaras takes twelve traditional songs and he does not attempt to present them as they were, but as he felt them today. The result which is recorded in "Ammos" is extremely interesting. Listening to it we do not feel that we are listening to archival material. The music takes a new breath of life and breathes through George's violin and composing trend. Even when two of his own compositions are added to the twelve traditional songs we do not feel that we are listening to something discordant, but that they were all part of the same unity.