KLOEPAS - Wandering Melodist (2018) [Hi-Res]

Kleopas is a self-taught greek cosmopolitan musician. He has traveled, lived and played his compositions out of Greece in countries such as Thailand , India, Japan, France, Germany, Holland, Cyprus...​ He is a composer as well as a singer and he plays the Apollon's ancient Greek lyre ,the guitar and the bouzouki. Listening to Kleopas' melodies one can understand his Greek origins as well as his deep love for world music.​ In 1996, during one of his trips to Thailand, Kleopas met with Alban Marc "Snoopy", ex drummer of the 60's American cult band "Love" and their friendship led to the realization in 2002 in Athens of an album called "Snoopy's Love". ​ In 2000, he created the band Namaste with whom he performed in renowned clubs of Greece and at festivals such as the Ethnic-Jazz Festival "Dimitria" in Thessaloniki and the International Festival of Ohrid. Besides, from 2007 to 2018, Namaste was the most beloved band of Santorini island.​ Kleopas is also deeply involved with the Seed Freedom Movement which is embodied in Greece by the organization "Peliti". For this reason, he has been volunteering his music for the last 10 years to the Seed Exchange Festivals organized by Peliti every year around easter time. In 2014, Namaste took part in the International Caravan for Seed Freedom which traveled from Greece to France. They met there with members of the German Seed Movement and as a result, Namaste performed for 3 consequitive years at the Nuremberg Seed Exchange Festival. In 2016, Kleopas played with his lyre at the International Trial against Monsanto which took place in the Hague in the presence of Dr. Vandana Shiva. In 2018, he opened with his lyre the 2nd Olympic Seed Festival in Greece and he also took part in a festival in Drama with lyre players from all over Greece. The same year, he was invited with his lyre at the Seed Exchange Festival in Nicosia, Cyprus.


Tracklist:
1.01 - KLEOPAS - Aegean (3:12)
1.02 - KLEOPAS - Hellas (3:45)
1.03 - KLEOPAS - Genesis (The Song of the Seeds) (8:16)
1.04 - KLEOPAS - Look at me my sweet love (4:53)
1.05 - KLEOPAS - Ohendo's walk (4:31)
1.06 - KLEOPAS - On the Oleander's Blossom (6:00)
1.07 - KLEOPAS - Your Shiny Eyelids (7:42)
1.08 - KLEOPAS - Drama's Bridge (4:03)
1.09 - KLEOPAS - Vai carese (6:58)
1.10 - KLEOPAS - Wandering Melodist (2:36)
1.11 - KLEOPAS - Hymn to muse Kalliope and Apollo (3:47)