Kyriakos Gouventas Workshop orchestra AKDT Neufchateau 2016

Kyriakos Gouventas introduced this year in AKDT Neufchateau (B) the huge repertory of the Aegean see and the greek islands. Nisiotika is one of the most distinctive categories of Greek Music and Greek songs, referring to the music created in the islands of the central Aegean Sea - the complexes of Cyclades, the Dodecanese and the Sporades. Other islands, such as Crete or the Ionian islands feature a different type of music, peculiar to individual islands.
Unlike other music types created on a stricter regional platform, the Nisiotika retain their connection to the folk tradition without being identified with a certain nationalistic tendency - as it happened with the songs of the mainland in Roumeli or Thrace.