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Music from the folkloric tradition of Crete, lyre playing by Ilias Vlamakis of the channel Cretan Lyra Lab, arrangement and other instrumentation by Farya Faraji. Please keep in mind that this is not reconstructed Byzantine music, it's modern Greek music with a Byzantine theme (the theme here being Crete, this pun works on two levels, I am a comedic genius please laugh). This is a collaboration with the YouTube channel Cretan Lyra Lab who wonderfully played this traditional Cretan Greek air called “Mikri mou lemonia mou,“ which as far as I know hails from Eastern Crete, on the Cretan Lyre, please go check out their channel here: I wanted to bring some attention to Cretan Greek music with my next Byzantine-themed track, but most of my knowledge of Greek music lies in mainland Greek and Thracian music, so I reached out to Vlamakis with permission to use their lyra recording. The Cretan Lyra is the heart and soul of Cretan music--a des
