“Lament” is a performance for mourning in public. It is a space for processing the destruction caused by Big Ideas. A chance to reconnect with sonic traditions of one's roots that were first understood as vulgar through flat modernised ears. To reclaim what has been marked as a national brand to be protected from intruders, queers, and others.
This lament is analogue and digital, has flesh and cables. It is a collage of a live processed guitar, distorted vocals, and musical roads that touch the heart of those exiled from them. It involves my mourning for belonging, built on top of “Greek” musical rhythms. It will evolve like an electric amane; a singing shared across the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean. A sensitive expression that nationalists claim as their own.
