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***** PHOS DUO PRESENTS *****
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****** THE LOST SESSIONS ******
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This video is a part of a series which was planned to be done with a professional studio recording along with two CD releases; however, when humans make plans, Gods laugh, as they say. A very unfortunate accident left a good part of the studio recordings damaged beyond repair, and the project was pretty much killed. However, we - Phos Duo, who are Antonis Ladopoulos on Saxophone and yours truly (Sami Amiris) on piano - decided to salvage anything salvagable and post it here on Youtube, as a way to keep something alive out of all this, no matter how little. Thus the lost sessions were born, and they truly are lost.

The only audio available is the audio from the two cameras we used, and we did everything we could from that. So you will hear all sorts of sounds, cracks from my poor, suffering piano stool, etc., but we assure you they are all innocent sounds! So, these are not perfect recordings. They are a small and very raw sample of what would have been. Still, we present it here for your pleasure, and hope that the poor sound quality won't irritate you too much.

We do plan to re-record everything soon.

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****** CASSANDRA *****
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Cassandra, according to Homer, was a very beautiful woman from the ancient Troy, sister of Paris. She was so beautiful that God Apollo had proposed to her, but she declined, making Apollo very angry. So he gave her a gift, albeit a cursed one: She would know everything which was to transpire in the future, but (and here comes the curse) nobody would believe her. And so her life was one of the most tragic lives ever documented in truth or fiction, tragic in the ancient greek sense, of the impending tragedy that is impossible to avoid.

This piece was composed for her.

The initial seed that gave the inspiration for this piece was a hauntingly beautiful Stasimon, "Katolofeiromai" by Evripides, composed around 408 BC, a piece of pure genius in my humble opinion.

Technically speaking, the piece is very challenging, both technically and rhythmically. It is basically a study in quintuplets, septuplets and the polyrhythm 7:5, with all sorts of groupings in both rhythmic subdivisions, both individually and simultaneously. I have played it in public only once with Antonis and Spyros Panagiotopoulos on drums, in SGT.

The piece basically wrote itself out in the basic parts. The details are a work in progress, and will probably remain so for the duration of my life.

Thank you, and I do hope you enjoy it!

-Sami Amiris -