Press Releases

from: Jazz & Τζαζ

"Psarantonis is Crete - that is to say … Because no one goes that back in time, that deep and that high into Greece as long as he does..."

from: Kathimerini, Saturday 25 – Sunday 26 of March, 2000

"You should you feel loneliness and the sensation that you go somewhere… Go where you like to go... In a different way nothing worthy could be accomplished."

"Music is a universal language. However it needs self-concentration."

"Greek music has everything itself: sea, mountain, plain fields and sky. There is no way that it would not be beauteous..."

from: Herald Sun, Thursday 27 of April 1995

"Psarandonis is an exponent of tripped-out Cretan music and is flooring the local trendies with his inimitable style of playing the "lyra". Locals who have caught recent gigs were left speechless. Psarandonis music seeks to express elements of the inner spirit through a personal re-working of tradition. The result is startling..."

from: Ta Nea, Wednesday 31 of May 2000

"Lyra is people’s heart"

"Everything can be taught, but the music can not. It is for the human to have it inside, according to his internal strength..."

from: The Athens News, May 1997

"Psarandonis is the essence of Crete. That heavy essence you find in the centre of life when life is more than the short-winged trivia of reality. When vision is imposed upon oneself by oneself with the kind of clarity that Nikos Kazantzakis wanted for what he called the Cretan Glance. Beatniks took hallucinogens to evoke visions. Psarandonis simply looks to the Cretan mountains..."