Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A presentation of "The Stories of Mnemosyne" - track 1 from my 2025 album, "Enchantment of the Tortoise Lyre", out now on all major digital music platforms, including Spotify:
open.spotify.com/album/4huoP5wauo0USBuOUm06Ou?si=Ok9nfjvqQJSdRbEjtFQ9Xg
Studio quality audio with a PDF booklet of the detailed album notes is available from Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com/album/enchantment-of-the-tortoise-lyre
My complementary recording project to the release of my album, "Magic of the Kithara" in 2025, was extending, re-mastering & re-releasing my 2022 album, "Ancient Greek Magic" under this new, more appropriate descriptive title, "Enchantment of the Tortoise Shell Lyre", featuring my recreated ancient Greek tortoise shell lyre, this time evoking the space of some ancient Greek Temple with eerie reverb sampled from York Minster Cathedral & new cinematic-style mastering!
The lyre featured in this performance has a resonator fashioned from a foraged Greek land tortoise, with goat skin soundboard - custom made in modern Greece, by Luthieros:
luthieros.com
About the closest thing to taking the 2,400 year old Elgin Lyre out of its display cabinet at the British Museum & actually performing on it!
Mnemosyne was a Titan goddess of memory and inspiration in Greek mythology. Mnemosyne was the mother of the Nine Muses; the inspirational goddesses of art, science and literature.
In this track, I attempted to conjure a spontaneous melody,
evoking the feeling of my lyre actually telling the enchanting myths of Mnemosyne.
The idea for this track began with the initial melodic idea which formed an earlier track, "Song of the Tortoise Shell Lyre", on my 2022 album, "The Cave of Hermes". In this new arrangement, I extended the initial melodic idea by spontaneous improvisation, in order to keep the essential feeling of inspiration which I wanted for the piece.
For full details of my many 'musical adventures in time travel', please check out all my official artist links below - many thanks for watching!
Subscribe:
youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Klezfiddle1
Official Artist Links:
Official Website:
ancientlyre.com
Digital Music Artist Profiles:
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/7Dx2vFEg8DmOJ5YCRm4A5v
iTunes & Apple Music:
itunes.apple.com/us/artist/michael-levy/id4324920
Amazon:
amzn.to/2zmJph3
Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com
Facebook Page:
facebook.com/beautifullyre
Twitter:
twitter.com/AncientLyre
Instagram:
instagram.com/mlevy1400bce
Patreon:
patreon.com/Michael_Levy_Ancient_Lyre_Music
A presentation of "The Stories of Mnemosyne" - track 1 from my 2025 album, "Enchantment of the Tortoise Lyre", out now on all major digital music platforms, including Spotify:
open.spotify.com/album/4huoP5wauo0USBuOUm06Ou?si=Ok9nfjvqQJSdRbEjtFQ9Xg
Studio quality audio with a PDF booklet of the detailed album notes is available from Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com/album/enchantment-of-the-tortoise-lyre
My complementary recording project to the release of my album, "Magic of the Kithara" in 2025, was extending, re-mastering & re-releasing my 2022 album, "Ancient Greek Magic" under this new, more appropriate descriptive title, "Enchantment of the Tortoise Shell Lyre", featuring my recreated ancient Greek tortoise shell lyre, this time evoking the space of some ancient Greek Temple with eerie reverb sampled from York Minster Cathedral & new cinematic-style mastering!
The lyre featured in this performance has a resonator fashioned from a foraged Greek land tortoise, with goat skin soundboard - custom made in modern Greece, by Luthieros:
luthieros.com
About the closest thing to taking the 2,400 year old Elgin Lyre out of its display cabinet at the British Museum & actually performing on it!
Mnemosyne was a Titan goddess of memory and inspiration in Greek mythology. Mnemosyne was the mother of the Nine Muses; the inspirational goddesses of art, science and literature.
In this track, I attempted to conjure a spontaneous melody,
evoking the feeling of my lyre actually telling the enchanting myths of Mnemosyne.
The idea for this track began with the initial melodic idea which formed an earlier track, "Song of the Tortoise Shell Lyre", on my 2022 album, "The Cave of Hermes". In this new arrangement, I extended the initial melodic idea by spontaneous improvisation, in order to keep the essential feeling of inspiration which I wanted for the piece.
For full details of my many 'musical adventures in time travel', please check out all my official artist links below - many thanks for watching!
Subscribe:
youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Klezfiddle1
Official Artist Links:
Official Website:
ancientlyre.com
Digital Music Artist Profiles:
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/7Dx2vFEg8DmOJ5YCRm4A5v
iTunes & Apple Music:
itunes.apple.com/us/artist/michael-levy/id4324920
Amazon:
amzn.to/2zmJph3
Bandcamp:
michaellevy.bandcamp.com
Facebook Page:
facebook.com/beautifullyre
Twitter:
twitter.com/AncientLyre
Instagram:
instagram.com/mlevy1400bce
Patreon:
patreon.com/Michael_Levy_Ancient_Lyre_Music
