The family, the entire body of Greek traditional expression, comes as a continuation of the history, to prove that tradition is experiential and music is a living cell that is reborn through listening and rhythm. Families of traditional musicians, musical families. Fortunately, there are still several! We enter the small, enclosed universe of a musical family, in its natural space, the neighborhood, at the café, and other haunts where its music and dancing activities take place. The family, the music, the contacts, the influences, the transactions, the confessions, and the narratives about the family’s life and action, not only by family members but also by third parties. And finally a small tribute to the beneficial effect on cohesion and psychology, through the ritual of musical get-togethers.

Where Vincenzo Cornaros ends with Erotokritos, along with the old Cretan musicians and mantinada poets, Loudovikos ton Anogeion begins.
He takes up this musical and poetic thread, enriches it, and handles it with profound knowledge and sensitivity. Born Giorgis Dramoundanis, he is an artist of another world—of an era where words take on color, and color pulses through our senses.
His melodies, rhymed verses, mantinades, and short narratives unfold across the strings of his mandolin. His approach to life, art, and the everyday finds its expression in just a few notes—gentle tones, a deep voice, and a wide, narrative range.
This is Loudovikos ton Anogeion—both the root and the continuation of Crete and its art.