Petros Klampanis - Minor Dispute (2025 Remaster) (2026)

2012 in New York. The Cornelia Street Café in the West Village, one of those places where stories, sounds and friendships merge into something lasting. Gilad, Jean Michel, John, Maria, Lev, Megan and Yoed. Friends in the audience. The music of Minor Dispute was born in that small, warm space, during a time that now feels distant yet deeply alive inside me.

Those were years when the world seemed to be opening up. Possibilities felt visible, optimism filled the city, or maybe it was just how I perceived things then. But truth, after all, is always a matter of perspective, isn’t it?

Minor Dispute was conceived between 2011 and 2012 and recorded in Brooklyn in 2013. It was supported by more than 300 friends and listeners through a crowdfunding campaign that made it all possible. That energy, a community’s belief in something still unformed, carried me through the process of making the record.

Looking back, the music feels like a snapshot of a younger self trying to find balance between clarity and chaos, between the inner and outer worlds. The minor dispute was, and still is, the quiet dialogue that each of us has with our own contradictions, the tension between hope and doubt, light and shadow.

More than ten years later, I’m deeply grateful to share this edition of the album on vinyl, the way it was always meant to exist. It’s not just a remaster; it’s a chance to listen again, to notice new details, to breathe with it differently.

I think often of that time, of New York’s rhythm and its endless nights filled with music and friends. And I think of how fortunate I am to have had people, musicians, listeners and supporters, who believed in this work before it had a name.

Here it is again, resurfaced after a decade. Let the internal dialogue continue. Let us embrace our darkness and make something beautiful with it. Hopefully.

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Petros Klampanis – double bass

Gilad Hekselman – guitar
Jean-Michel Pilc – piano
John Hadfield – drums, percussion

String Quartet
Megan Gould – violin
Maria Manousaki – violin
Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin – viola
Yoed Nir – cello

Additional Musicians
Bodek Janke – percussion
Colin Stokes – cello (March of the Sad Ones)
Matthew Sinno – viola (March of the Sad Ones)
Max ZT – santouri