Sunday, 30 March 2014

Alexis Zoumbas, A Lament for Epirus 1926-1928





An extraordinary achievement.

"Alexis Zoumbas’s expressions of longing are so raw and unmediated that I suspect anyone who has ever yearned for anything – who has ever gazed dolefully out a window, or sighed audibly over a cup of whiskey, or felt subsumed by a certain kind of ache – will feel these songs like a club to the back of the knees. They are immediate, destructive, and stunning. That Christopher King was able to collect and contain them for us is an extraordinary gift". —Amanda Petrusich

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