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aναστενάρια / anastenaria
Extracts of the ritual and fire walking of the anastenaria. Recorded in the village of Agia Eleni, Serres, Greece, 20-21 may 1979.
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Music, with its "infuriating soul particles", progressively accentuates the cadence and the vibration. The drum thumbing as never before, scourges the tensed neurons of the goading ones. The inciting rhythm perpetually accelerating, motivates the hasty dancing, finally driving the devoted to the highest climax, to the ecstatic fervour, the one "given by the holy fate" according to Plato, the grace offered by the "summoning of the saint" according to (anastenarides) the fire walkers.
Released as aναστενάρια in 2008 by echOmusic / Editions Zero ; Rereleased as ANAΣΤΕΝΑΡΙΑ in 2014 by ΚΕΜΑΛ (Berceuse Heroique sublabel) with additional mixes by Pete Swanson and Vatican Shadow (Dominick Fernow).
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