Athos. Echoes frome th Holy Mountain
Book to accompany the release of the album ‘Athos. Echoes from the Holy Mountain
Edited by Olivier Duport, Alan Marzo, Madeleine Leclair and Makar Tereshin
FLEE Project / MEG, 147 pages, 2024
ISBN : 978-2-9569677-5-0
Price: CHF 30
Mount Athos, known as the ‘Holy Mountain’, has been a monastic peninsula in north-eastern Greece for over a thousand years. Its twenty monasteries are home to around 2,000 monks dedicated to prayer and worship, whose chants have echoed across the Aegean Sea for centuries, heard only by passing pilgrims, isolated from conventional time and world events.
This book has been published in three languages and in two versions: Greek-French and Greek-English. It includes essays, articles, photographs and artistic contributions from contributors such as Stratos Kalafatis, Theodore Psychoyos, Tefra90, Father Damaskinos Ulkinuora, Prof. Thomas Apostolopoulos, Makar Tereshin, Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki, Michelangelo Paganopoulos and Alberto Cameroni.
The book accompanies the release of a double album of 33t. vinyl records, also available on CD, featuring original recordings dating from 1961 from MEG's sound archives and recordings made in 2022, as well as new compositions inspired by these recordings.
CD/LP : Athos : Echoes frome th Holy Mountain
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EDITORIAL by Olivier Duport, Alan Marzo, Madeleine Leclair and Makar Tereshin
The Revival of Monasticism on the Holy Mountain
Father Damaskinos of Xenophontos
The colours of faith
Stratos Kalafatis
The Musical Tradition of Mount Athos
Thomas Apostolopoulos
Sound Artists
Prins Emanuel & Inre Kristen Grupp, Holy Tongue, Esme & Murat Ertel Jay Glass Dubs, Daniel Paleodimos, Jimi Tenor, Jay Glass Dubs, Gilb’r, Organza Ray
Contested Authenticity and pilgrimage tourism on Mount Athos
Michelangelo Paganopoulos
MIRACLE
Tefra90
Calypso takes a voyage to Mount Athos
Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki
Table
Theodore Psychoyos
Yearning for Athos: Russia’s bonds to the Holy Mountain
Makar Tereshin
Photo Index