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[The Cypriot]

The Cypriot Academy, the UK Cypriot cultural organisation, has secured a £10,000 National Lottery grant to produce a traditional Cypriot music CD in the English language.

The CD, to be arranged by the highly-regarded Cypriot composer Harry Coutsavakis, will contain 10 of the most popular songs of Cyprus, as sung originally in the island's traditional vernaculars, 'Gibreiga' and 'Gibrizlija'. Tracks will include favourites such as Vraga (Breeches), The voice of Dillirka (Tilliria region) and Psindri Vasilija/Feslikan (Slender Basil). A fresh musical interpretation will help breathe new life into acknowledged classics, enhancing accessibility to UK Cypriots as well as a wider international audience.

Members of the Cypriot Academy have been painstakingly translating each song to rhyme and scan in English, so as to capture the original flavour and pathos. A number of these translations have already featured in the acclaimed novel 'The Cypriot' and publishers Dexter Haven have kindly given permission for elements of the novel's striking jacket design to be used for the CD cover.

Following in the footsteps of the successful 'UK Cypriot Film Festival', which took place at the end of last year, the ground-breaking music project will bring together UK Cypriot creative talent, as well as non-Cypriots, to demonstrate how people from differing backgrounds can overcome division and acrimony to celebrate and promote a common heritage.

"We're tremendously excited about this project," enthused Olympia, renowned Cypriot music guru who, together with Peter Christiansen, will be auditioning singers and overseeing recordings. "It will show the world what Cypriots can achieve when we work together in a spirit of mutual trust and understanding."

Details of the songs can be found at: http://www.cypriotacademy.com/songs.html

[Sotos]

traditional Cypriot music CD in the English language.

Something like the Vrakaman? You should contact Hadjimike for this! And The Cypriot I guess you don't live in Cyprus. Because only Cypriots that live abroad use G instead of K in greeklish words like 'Gibreiga', I would say Kipreika

[The Cypriot]

Thought this might be of interest to those in the London area...

Author of acclaimed novel 'The Cypriot', will be interviewed live on Radio London as part of the World Music show, 9-10pm, Saturday 31 March. Music from the associated new Cypriot music CD will feature.

The show will be devoted to Greek and Cypriot (including Gibrizlija) music, and starts at 8pm, hosted by DJ Ritu

http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/art ... ture.shtml

[T_C]

Thought this might be of interest to those in the London area...

Author of acclaimed novel 'The Cypriot', will be interviewed live on Radio London as part of the World Music show, 9-10pm, Saturday 31 March. Music from the associated new Cypriot music CD will feature.

The show will be devoted to Greek and Cypriot (including Gibrizlija) music, and starts at 8pm, hosted by DJ Ritu

http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/art ... ture.shtml

Hey I think I saw a video on youtube about that book the other day, the writer was reading and explaining parts of the book. Are you the author by any chance?

[The Cypriot]

Hey I think I saw a video on youtube about that book the other day, the writer was reading and explaining parts of the book. Are you the author by any chance?

Hi, yes that's me. Thanks for taking an interest...

[The Cypriot]

BBC radio interview available on the internet for one week:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainfram ... ndon.shtml


Scroll down and click on 'World music' at the bottom.. then forward one hour to get to 'The Cypriot'...