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Greek musician Sofia Labropoulou is a kanun player and composer who has developed a uniquesound by merging the worlds of Greek and Mediterranean folk, classical Ottoman, Western medieval,experimental and contemporary music. Sofia Labropoulou made her Odradek World debut withButterfly, an exquisite collaboration with guitarist Vassilis Ketentzoglou. InSisyphus, SofiaLabropoulou returns to Odradek World with a sumptuous collection of her own compositions,inspired by an eclectic range of sources and featuring a rich ensemble including vocals, kanun,shepherd’s flute, oud, santur, the kemençe from Istanbul, and Western instruments such as clarinet,violin, cello and double bass.
The works featured onSisyphustake inspiration and poetic source material from a diverse array oferas and geographical locations, includingThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essaysby Albert Camus,Greek mythology and folk styles, Turkish and Arabic music, and two songs by the Sex Pistols:Anarchy in the UKandGod Save the Queen. The result is unique and distinctive, but with anoverarching sense of unity achieved through Sofia Labropoulou’s powerful musical personality.
And as Sofia relates it in her Epilogue in the album booklet:
“Demolition is a stance and an attitude.
Like a kind of death, it symbolises the ending and the (re-) birth of each new beginning, notin the sense of the cry of “Viva la muerte!” by the soldiers of some Franco, but in the senseused in the Camusian fall of Sisyphus, who mocks and resents the gods and becomesimmortal by rejecting the immortality they offer.
In order to win, you have to lose
And in order to lose, you must first have...
It is the way we have been made to believe that what was once self-evident is now absurd
It is about “Living, not surviving”
It is the ultimate proof of the love for life
For the good days and the badAnd especially for the days that we believe we've got it made.”
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