GERASIMOS STAMATOGIANNAKIS - 40 YEARS

GERASIMOS STAMATOGIANNAKIS - 40 YEARS

Going around the labyrinths of the Cretan musical tradition, one finds oneself in the same dilemma every time. What nostalgic melody to choose from those that, like a demonized wind, captivate the mind and the soul when they listen to the apogee dream worlds.
In which verse of those who were not written with pens and pencils but dripped on the lyre and the lute from the overflow of the feelings of the artist, the lyricist, the luthier, the dancer ... Hundreds are not exaggeration - Cretan music artists showed the feeling of the Cretan in magical melody. Early masters and their students. Old and young. Others who released dozens of records and put Cretan music in the big halls of Athens and the land of cities, where Cretans live, others who remained faithful to the traditional feast, the festival and the joy of the village.
Who to talk to first ...
One of those who met the halls of America and the studios of record companies, but also who spent the night at the village party and the joy of the company without amplifiers and microphones, Gerasimos Stamatogiannakis, completes four decades and a few more years - in Cretan music, but still insist on the simple, the simple, the genuine and the authentic, without letting these four whole decades manage to spoil their love for the grandeur of the festival in the square of the country. rio and the chant at the girls' windows.

Gerasimos Stamatogiannakis, born in Akoumia, Santa Claus, in August 1931. He saw and heard and was not fed up with his five senses, along with his barbarians, Nikos Papoutsidakis and Stefanis Marinakis, expressing with the lyre and the Glory to the pain and the little joy of man, until the other years the greatest that Gerasimos was the favorite lyricist in the festivals, engagements, weddings and baptisms in Ai Va sili with the unsurpassed Markogiannis in the lute, and the others years still traveling with Mania They went to the distant noisy and exotic Hawaii, and with George Hatzidakis they continued the big dance parties, Gerasimos of 1990 is Gerasimos of 1945 and 1960. Then there were other years - he tells his friends - you are sure that there were tape recorders and teachers to help you say there was nothing. Only the taste and. We didn't expect to live on the lyre and the lute. We played to beautify people's joys. That's why when we caught the instruments we didn't leave it. We played two or three nights in a row without getting tired. We were captivated by this immortal magic of Cretan music. And now I still like it

I have released 30 albums young and old. But I want people to hear me play and see me. Let me see the world that celebrates with my sweetness ... ". So for four decades, Gerasimos did not leave the bow in his hands, except when in 1986 a health problem deprived him of playing the lyre for three years." But I had the strength and I overcame it and one night I caught the bow again in Akoumia for the taste and the friends again, as when I started, And I felt then as if it was the first time ... ". So simple, for passion and friends, Gerasimos captivates his friends every time for the wonderful purposes and the beautiful mandin see you sing himself. From those big hits he chooses two - the most popular tou- dedicated "to those who will read what you write ...".

In the false world, beauties do not live forever
wither and wear out and fade away.

You deprived me of joy and gave me pain
and judge me to hurt the world above,

Dimitris Tzanakakis Journalist