"Ode to Achyls" - track - track 6 from my album, "Kithara of the Golden Age":

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The kithara was the highly advanced, large wooden lyre favoured by only the true professional musicians of ancient Greece, which reached its pinnacle of perfection during the “Golden Age” of Classical Antiquity, circa 5th century BCE.

Both this album and my earlier release , "The Ancient Greek Kithara of Classical Antiquity" features the wonderfully recreated Kithara of the Golden Age of Classical Greece - hand-made in modern Greece by Luthieros:

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This piece is in the wonderfully intense and mournful sounding ancient Greek Hypodorian Mode (misnamed the 'Aeolian' mode in the Middle Ages, this mode, heard here in authentically pure just intonation, is the equivalent intervals as A-A on the white notes of the piano). This ancient Greek mode, the basis of our modern minor scales is also sometimes referred to as the 'Natural Minor Scale'. The use of just intonation in this piece further enhances the distinctive emotional effect of this mode.

In Greek mythology, Achlys ( Ἀχλύς "mist") was, according to some ancient cosmogonies, the eternal Night (perhaps the Mist of Death, which fell before the eyes preceding death), and the first created being which existed even before Chaos.

This improvisation demonstrates the unique vocal vibrato effects possible on the ancient Greek kithara, thanks to it's advanced spring vibrato mechanism. This system of vertical levers rising above the yoke on which the strings are attached and the curved wooden springs beneath the yoke enable both vibrato and sliding portamento effects, as heard in this improvisation, by lightly wobbling one of the vertical levers above the yoke - which gives lateral movement to the curved wooden springs beneath the yoke, which moves the strings, thus creating the portamento/vibrato effects - some 2500 years before the invention of the 'whammy bar' of our modern electric guitar!

For more details about my ongoing collaboration with Luthieros in their 'Lyre 2.0 Project', dedicated to reintroducing the beautiful lyres of antiquity back into the hands of every modern imaginative musician, please also see my website blog:

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