The Ison is a continuous drone accompaniment that, on instruments like the laouto, holds to the tonic + perfect fifth, then goes down to subtonic + perfect fourth during moments of cadence to give a sense of downward descent towards conclusion. Dimitrios had never heard this song before, but before me even finishing the first verse, he knew when to drop down the Ison, because I constructed this melody using pre-existing melodic material and patterns that permeate Greek folk music, and Dimitrios, being intuitively familiar with them, knew immediately how to accompany the song with Ison-logic.
This is a great example of how recognisable patterns and algorithms define diverse musical traditions, and how traditional musicians from a culture don't need to have heard a specific song beforehand to be able to play it, because what defines the sound of specific traditions is a set of patterns and algorithmic logic that all the songs share, rather than each individual song being unique and individually isolated. Musicians don't need to know a specific song to be able to play it if they're already fluent in the *musical language* the song is created in.pontodeebuliçãoFarya Farajis Boiling Hub2025-10-23 | ...Rise of the Ottoman Empire - Historical DocumentaryFarya Farajis Boiling Hub2025-10-17 | ottoman ottoman does whatever an otto can look ouuuuuut here comes the ottomanMin Orkizesai Vre Pseftra - Greek SongFarya Farajis Boiling Hub2025-10-17 | a song from my second trip in Greece in May of 2022. this was back when i was still posting on this channel mostly for fun without an ethnomusicological educational focus, and therefore this arrangement is very modern and laiko-ified. the song however has its roots in Asia Minor Greek music of the early 20th century, and therefore was originally performed in a far more makamic and traditional way, something I want to reflect in a new cover I'll post eventuallyDigenis Akritas - Epic Byzantine MusicFarya Farajis Boiling Hub2025-10-17 | This is a song I've been wanting to remake for a while. I made this one back when I had less contacts within the Greek music community and means to research to texts and lyrics, so the best I could do to represent Digenis Akritas was to use the same Byzantine chant in both Arabic and Greek to represent his Arab-Greek heritage.
But Digenis is THE figure of Byzantine literature and folklore, and he deserves a far more complex and fully fledged song. I will be remaking this song into a far richer epic, both musically and lyrically, with not only this chant, but also lyrics actually about Digenis from the Akritic songs and everything. So this old version gets reuploaded here, and hopefully in not too long, we'll get a new one on the main channelNaranča - Croatian SongFarya Farajis Boiling Hub2025-10-17 | reupload from the main channel30 Minutes of Relaxing Mediterranean Music and AmbienceFarya Farajis Boiling Hub2025-10-17 | reupload from the main channelMignonne de Chardavoine - Renaissance French SongFarya Farajis Boiling Hub2025-10-17 | A song I'm going to rework, reuploading here for those who like this versionGordāfarid the Brave - Epic Iranian MusicFarya Farajis Boiling Hub2025-10-17 | A song I uploaded on the main channel back in 2021. Now that I have more contacts and means of making music, I want to make a new song on the main channel about Gordafarid, with female vocalistsMemzare - Armenian SongFarya Farajis Boiling Hub2025-10-17 | reupload from the main channel's early days. i'll eventually be remaking this one on the main oneTo Margoudi - Greek SongFarya Farajis Boiling Hub2025-10-17 | a song i threw together during my first trip to greece in 2021, back when the main channel was mostly random stuff for fun. i'll be reworking this eventually with more accurate instrumentation and i'll probably shoot the actual video in the song's region, thrace, instead of the peloponese as seen hereTheodoras DreamsFarya Farajis Boiling Hub2025-10-17 | ...Üsküdar and Apo Xeno - 2020 VersionFarya Farajis Boiling Hub2025-10-17 | ...30 Minutes of Relaxing Iranian Music and AmbienceFarya Farajis Boiling Hub2025-10-17 | reupload from the main channel. leftover from october 2020, when pandemic lockdown boredown made me produce some random music on the side