Ancient Lyre & Vocals - WOODSTOCK by Andrie Evripidou & Theodore Koumartzis

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We are stardust, we are golden. — Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock" is a popular song written by Joni Mitchell, following a concert-goer on a trek to attend the Woodstock Festival in 1969. It tells the story of a spiritual journey and makes prominent use of sacred imagery, comparing the festival with the Garden of Eden.
The melody is performed by Andrie Evripidou, a Blues vocalist, and Theodore Koumartzis, a virtuoso lyre player, playing on a LUTHIEROS Lyre of Orpheus (9 strings), masterfully handcrafted by the Koumartzis family in Greece.

🎬 Film d'auteur: Nikolaos Koumartzis

🎙️ Who is Andrie?
Andrie is a Cypriot singer who loves voice improvisation and freedom when she sings. She is particularly influenced by blues and jazz through which she has vocally experimented. She has collaborated with musicians from different backgrounds in Greece while now, when possible, she continues her experimentations with the musical team of the Reggetiko Project.

🎙️ Who is Theodore?
Theodore is the youngest brother of the Koumartzis family. Being part of the family's endeavor since its early stage, he soon came to be an inspiring top-notch lyre player, constantly learning and experimenting with musicians around the world.
He is the founder of the Pausis Project, a curator at the SEIKILO Museum of Ancient Music in Greece (Thessaloniki), and an integral part of LUTHIEROS Music Instruments.

⚪ Pausis - a secret form of communication
A parallel unobserved form of expression behind the obvious, the unseen point where all obvious forms of communication (dialogue, sounds, gestures, writing) communicate and become capable of expressing something higher than their sum.
Pausis is actually a necessary element for every kind of communication of verbal, artistic, stochastic music. With both philosophical and literal dimensions, friendship, love, time, life itself become ill at the moment when the internal dialogue ceases, and in the space that is created all becomes One.

🎶 Lyrics in English
I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, where are you going
And this he told me...
I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm
I'm gonna join in a rock 'n' roll band
I'm gonna camp out on the land
I'm gonna try and get my soul free

We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

Then can I walk beside you
I have come here to lose the smog
And I feel to be a cog in something turning
Well maybe it is just the time of year
Or maybe it's the time of man
I don't know who I am
But you know life is for learning

We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere there was song and celebration
And I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky
And they were turning into butterflies
Above our nation

We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

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