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Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero — Homer, Odyssey
"Leaving Ithaca" is an original song for an ancient lyre & bendir by Playades, a music ensemble based in Modena, Italy, focusing on the use of storytelling to rediscover the ancient Greek culture and mythology.
Fabio Esposito performs for us on a LUTHIEROS Lyre of Aphrodite and Francesco Sotgiu on the ancient bendir. The melody is inspired by the story of King Ulysses of Ithaca, who was forced to join the Greek forces for the futile Trojan War as narrated in Homer's Iliad.
"Leaving Ithaca" is part of Playades' first album, titled "Ancient Meditations" (2021).
⚫ Find the perfect lyre for you at luthieros.com
🔵 Learn how to play the lyre and other ancient musical instruments at
lyreacademy.com/choose-your-next-course
Ancient World Music is a genre that expands swiftly with new musicians from all over the world, and SEIKILO Channel is committed to supporting and introducing them to an ever-expanding audience! Our crew traveled to Italy to document their journey into a series of videos for the SEIKILO Channel.
🎼 About the song (from the album's text)
King Ulysses lived happily on the island of Ithaca with his wife Penelope and his son
Telemachus. At the outbreak of the Trojan War, all the Grecian Kings were ordered to
participate in the war. Ulysses pretended to be crazy to escape a war that would have
kept him away from home.
The deception of Ulysses, intent to throw salt on the sand plowed by oxen, was
discovered by Palamedes sent by Agamemnon to ascertain the rumors that Ulysses
had gone crazy.
Palamedes used his son Telemachus to test Ulysses' sanity. Ulysses, in front of the
danger stopped the oxen that otherwise would have run over Telemachus placed on
one of the furrows by Palamedes.
Ulysses was absolutely not crazy. The king of Ithaca was thus forced to leave; he
prepared his army, said goodbye to his family, and reluctantly set sail for a journey that
would keep him away for many years.
🇮🇹 Who are Playades?
PLAYADES is a musical project fueled with cultural research and knowledge dissemination; a project that was born out of an inner necessity and the desire to rediscover our shared ancient heritage of Greek culture and mythology.
From streets to theaters, from libraries to cafes, every PLAYADES live performance is a unique experience: the place where ancient-inspired music and storytelling blend together seamlessly, and from their marriage, something magical blooms. What this might be, you have to find out for your own by participating in one of their gigs!
Their first album, mysteriously titled "Ancient Meditations," is just the first act of a far greater project. Their live concert is the next act: when the soothing sound of the lyre and the immerging beats of the ancient bendir give birth to an ancient world full of tales, poems, and fragments of epic stories, lost in time and space.
And as Hesiod would say, twenty-seven centuries ago, "The Pleiades plunge into the misty deep*" to rediscover the past through contemporary lenses.
Fabio Esposito on the Lyre of Aphrodite.
Francesco Sotgiu on the ancient bendir.
Davide Folloni & Francesca Capuozzo on the narration.
* Works and Days, 700 BC
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Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero — Homer, Odyssey
"Leaving Ithaca" is an original song for an ancient lyre & bendir by Playades, a music ensemble based in Modena, Italy, focusing on the use of storytelling to rediscover the ancient Greek culture and mythology.
Fabio Esposito performs for us on a LUTHIEROS Lyre of Aphrodite and Francesco Sotgiu on the ancient bendir. The melody is inspired by the story of King Ulysses of Ithaca, who was forced to join the Greek forces for the futile Trojan War as narrated in Homer's Iliad.
"Leaving Ithaca" is part of Playades' first album, titled "Ancient Meditations" (2021).
⚫ Find the perfect lyre for you at luthieros.com
🔵 Learn how to play the lyre and other ancient musical instruments at
lyreacademy.com/choose-your-next-course
Ancient World Music is a genre that expands swiftly with new musicians from all over the world, and SEIKILO Channel is committed to supporting and introducing them to an ever-expanding audience! Our crew traveled to Italy to document their journey into a series of videos for the SEIKILO Channel.
🎼 About the song (from the album's text)
King Ulysses lived happily on the island of Ithaca with his wife Penelope and his son
Telemachus. At the outbreak of the Trojan War, all the Grecian Kings were ordered to
participate in the war. Ulysses pretended to be crazy to escape a war that would have
kept him away from home.
The deception of Ulysses, intent to throw salt on the sand plowed by oxen, was
discovered by Palamedes sent by Agamemnon to ascertain the rumors that Ulysses
had gone crazy.
Palamedes used his son Telemachus to test Ulysses' sanity. Ulysses, in front of the
danger stopped the oxen that otherwise would have run over Telemachus placed on
one of the furrows by Palamedes.
Ulysses was absolutely not crazy. The king of Ithaca was thus forced to leave; he
prepared his army, said goodbye to his family, and reluctantly set sail for a journey that
would keep him away for many years.
🇮🇹 Who are Playades?
PLAYADES is a musical project fueled with cultural research and knowledge dissemination; a project that was born out of an inner necessity and the desire to rediscover our shared ancient heritage of Greek culture and mythology.
From streets to theaters, from libraries to cafes, every PLAYADES live performance is a unique experience: the place where ancient-inspired music and storytelling blend together seamlessly, and from their marriage, something magical blooms. What this might be, you have to find out for your own by participating in one of their gigs!
Their first album, mysteriously titled "Ancient Meditations," is just the first act of a far greater project. Their live concert is the next act: when the soothing sound of the lyre and the immerging beats of the ancient bendir give birth to an ancient world full of tales, poems, and fragments of epic stories, lost in time and space.
And as Hesiod would say, twenty-seven centuries ago, "The Pleiades plunge into the misty deep*" to rediscover the past through contemporary lenses.
Fabio Esposito on the Lyre of Aphrodite.
Francesco Sotgiu on the ancient bendir.
Davide Folloni & Francesca Capuozzo on the narration.
* Works and Days, 700 BC
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