PRE-ORDER: V/A "Athos: Echoes from the Holy Mountain" 2xLP

This is a pre-order. We expect this to ship on or around NOVEMBER 8th, 2024. Any items ordered with this will be held until they can be shipped together. 

Double LP version. Mount Athos, known as the Holy Mountain, is a monastic peninsula in northeastern Greece, central to Eastern Orthodox monasticism for over a millennium. Its twenty monasteries house around 2,000 monks dedicated to prayer and worship, which songs have echoed across the Aegean Sea for centuries, heard only by visiting pilgrims, isolated from conventional time and global events. After several years of research, and several visits to the retired community, Flee are happy to present their new project Athos: Echoes from the Holy Mountain, dedicated to this liturgic music and repertoire that seems to be evolving outside the usual boundaries of time and space. Rooted in Byzantine chant, this a cappella tradition essential to monastic life featuring intricate yet serene melodies designed to facilitate prayer and contemplation, using a system of modes and scales to create a meditative atmosphere. Trans-disciplinary, this effort of documentation also comprehends an artistic re-interpretation aspect inviting contemporary Greek and foreign artists to reflect on the subject. A musical compilation which captures original field recordings from the 1960s and from today capturing the essence of liturgical music on Mount Athos, but also new compositions inspired by them by artists such as Holy Tongue (UK), Jay Glass Dubs (GR), Prins Emanuel & Inre Kresten Grupp (SWE), Jimi Tenor (FI), Gilb'r (FR), Daniel Paleodimos (GR), Esma & Murat Ertel (TUR) and Organza Ray (GR/US).
Track Listing:
01. Inre Kretsen Grupp & Prins Emanuel - Volta Semantron)
02. Holy Tongue - Athos Dub
03. Esma & Murat Ertel - Garden of Kibele
04. Daniel Paleodimos - Doxology
05. Jimi Tenor - Idän Kuoromiehet
06. Jay Glass Dubs - Synaptic Riddles
07. Gilb'r - L'île Météore
08. Organza Ray - I Swim In Your Dreams
09. Gregoriou Monastery - Vatopedi Semantron Vespers
10. Daniilaioi Brotherhood Choir - Axion Estin, Mode Plagal B
11. Daniilaioi Brotherhood Choir - Christos Anesti, Mode Plagal A
12. Daniilaioi Brotherhood Choir - Theoteke Parthene, Mode Plagal A
13. Daniilaioi Brotherhood Choir - Doxologia Chourmouzioy, Mode Varys
14. Daniilaioi Brotherhood Choir - Osoi Eis Christon, Mode Plagal A
15. Daniilaioi Brotherhood Choir - Tas Esprinas Manouel Chrysafis, Mode Plagal A
16. Father Lazaros of Gregoriou Monastery - Doxastikon idiomelon, Mode Plagal A
17. Father Germanos of Vatopedi Monastery - Anoixantos Sou; Koukouzelis, Mode Plagal D
18. Iviron Monastery Choir - Cherouvical Hymn, Third Mode
19. Father Antipas - Axion Estin, Seventh Mode
20. Simonopetra Monastery Choir - Koinonikon, Mode Plagal A
- Mount Athos, known as the Holy Mountain, is a monastic peninsula in northeastern Greece, central to Eastern Orthodox monasticism for over a millennium. Its twenty monasteries house around 2,000 monks dedicated to prayer and worship, which songs have echoed across the Aegean Sea for centurie.
- After several years of research, and several visits to the retired community, Flee are happy to present their new project Athos: Echoes from the Holy Mountain, dedicated to this liturgic music and repertoire that seems to be evolving outside the usual boundaries of time and space.
- A musical compilation which captures original field recordings from the 1960s and from today capturing the essence of liturgical music on Mount Athos, but also new compositions inspired by them.