Jazz Articles about Stelios Petrakis

Stelios Petrakis / Efrén López / Bijan Chemirani: Mavra Froudia (Black eyebrows)

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 16, 2011

It is quite rare to find, in so-called world music, a unique and original meeting of cultures, striking in its obvious, organic and modest simplicity. As if that is the way things should be, without artificial political/artistic/cultural conventions and free of the new-age baggage of superficial slogans about one world without borders. But that is exactly the magic behind the Mediterranean trio of Cretan lyra player Stelios Petrakis, Spanish multi-instrumentalist Efrén López and Iranian/French percussionist Bijan Chemirani (son of the ...