Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A couple of years ago I came across an extraordinary CD while idly thumbing through the stacks of a music store ...

The Takoushis-Karapatakis Project is a contemporary jazz ensemble from Cyprus, formed in 2008 around the core duo of pianist/composer Marios Takoushis and bassist/composer Gabriel Karapatakis. Their ...

Black Eyebrows introduces a superb Greek/Spanish/Iranian trio. These multi-instrumental virtuosi make dramatic yet elegant music - new, truly original, but richly informed by various venerable ...

Piraeus-born Kelly Thoma's debut CD Anamkhara (it means 'Friend of the Soul' in Irish Gaelic) introduces her original compositions played on the spike fiddle called the Cretan lyra. Kelly has been ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In a priceless snippet of grainy black-and-white film from the '70s posted on YouTube, nine-year-old Giorgos Xylouris and his father, ...

In a garage in New Port Richey, two old friends create lyras and laoutos, stringed instruments that vibrate with the music of their native Crete. Konstantinos Maris of New Port Richey, 58, plays lyra, ...

Zakouska is a Russian hors d'oeuvre you knock back with a glass of vodka, but the band serve up a meatier dish. Their mastery of the violin, lyra, accordion and guitar, coupled with great complicity ...