Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Back in 2019, I was contacted by legendary Hip Hop Record Producer, Tim Gomringer of CuBeatz!!! CuBeatz have produced records for Hip Hop legends ranging from Drake, Travis Scott to Kodak Black! Charting hits range from "Summer Sixteen" by Drake, to "That Part" by Schoolboy Q featuring Kanye West.
Tim asked me to record this intricate 4-layered track he wanted me to arrange for lyre, for a possible future Hip Hop Beat Production! After notating each line by ear from the raw MIDI files Tim provided me with & arranging the four parts, the track was recorded in a Cardiff Studio in July 2019 - my loops of lyre riffs could have ended up reverberating on the dance floors in future records they produce for chart topping Hip Hop artists!
Alas, this never came to pass... ...but at least this studio recording is a taste of what could have been!
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Back in 2019, I was contacted by legendary Hip Hop Record Producer, Tim Gomringer of CuBeatz!!! CuBeatz have produced records for Hip Hop legends ranging from Drake, Travis Scott to Kodak Black! Charting hits range from "Summer Sixteen" by Drake, to "That Part" by Schoolboy Q featuring Kanye West.
Tim asked me to record this intricate 4-layered track he wanted me to arrange for lyre, for a possible future Hip Hop Beat Production! After notating each line by ear from the raw MIDI files Tim provided me with & arranging the four parts, the track was recorded in a Cardiff Studio in July 2019 - my loops of lyre riffs could have ended up reverberating on the dance floors in future records they produce for chart topping Hip Hop artists!
Alas, this never came to pass... ...but at least this studio recording is a taste of what could have been!
For countless hour more of my new music for recreated ancient lyres, please check out all my official artist links below...
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ancientlyre.com
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![Orpheus Tamed the Animals: Mythological Music for Ancient Greek Lyre
A live performance of my piece, Hymn to Astraeus (Ancient Greek God of the Dusk), from my 2022 album, Orpheus Tamed the Animals: Mythological Music for Ancient Greek Lyre. Available from all the usual digital music platforms, CD quality audio can also be downloaded from Bandcamp:
https://michaellevy.bandcamp.com/album/orpheus-tamed-the-animals-mythological-music-for-ancient-greek-lyre
In ancient Greek mythology, Astraeus is a second-generation Titan, descended from Crius and Eurybia. Appropriately, as god of the dusk, Astraeus married Eos, goddess of the dawn. Together as nightfall and daybreak, they produced many children who are associated with what occurs in the sky during twilight.
They had many sons, including the four Anemoi (winds): Boreas, Notus, Eurus, and Zephyrus and the five Astra Planeta (Wandering Stars, i.e. planets): Phainon (Saturn), Phaethon (Jupiter), Pyroeis (Mars), Eosphoros/Hesperos (Venus) and Stilbon (Mercury).
He is also sometimes associated with Aeolus, the Keeper of the Winds, since winds often swell up around dusk [source - Wikipedia]
In attempting to convey the feeling of dusk, I use the distinctively dark & introspective qualities of the ancient Greek Hypodorian Mode - misnamed the Aeolian mode by scholars during the Middle Ages, this mode consists of 2 conjoined tetrachords, forming the equivalent intervals as A-A on the white notes of the piano (but heard here, in the pristine, pure focus of just intonation). I feature a repetitive motif in the left hand later in the piece to evoke the chirping rhythm of cicadas at dusk. I also feature the use of harmonics, to musically evoke the shimmering rays of the setting sun.
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