Jazz Articles about Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga

Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga: Stroke by Stroke

by John Eyles
January 25, 2012

Zither player Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga's Stroke by Stroke is initially intriguing for the circumstances of its recording. As Lazaridou-Chatzigoga writes in her sleeve notes, “All the recordings were made at home in Athens between June 2010 and April 2011... Ambient noise from several parallel events taking place in Greece at the time of the recording has deliberately not been removed." As the period during which the recordings were made coincided with considerable unrest and disturbances on the streets of Athens, those ...