Michael Levy is releasing yet another album of ancient music for the lyre, played on one of the most beautiful instruments ever created. Give it a listen!
From Michael:
I am delighted to announce that my new album, “Invocation to Athena”, is now available to pre-save on Spotify, ahead of its release across all the usual digital music platforms on 1st January, 2026:
https://open.spotify.com/
This album features a series of mythological soundscapes, carved out of the ancient timbre of recreated lyres & kithara, inspired from classical Greece. It is my sincere hope, that the listener will be transported on a 'musical adventure in time travel' through a tapestry of ancient Greek mythology…
The tracks feature both a selection of new, original pieces for recreated ancient lyres & kithara in the distinctive expressive qualities of the original ancient Greek Modes, as well as a completely re-recorded and remastered version of the track "The Apparations of Phantasos", originally from my 2021 album, "Echoes of Ancient Greece" - the only piece of music that actually came to me in a dream!
On the morning of 6th March, 2021, I woke up with this tune still in my head & before the trance-like dream-music evaporated back into the ethers, I grabbed my cell phone and used it to record the melodic outline which I sleepily hummed into the microphone. To bring the dream-music more closely back to how I experienced it, this new recording of the track is much more vividly mixed and mastered. It is performed here, with the rich, dark and deep timbre of my Luthieros ‘Lyre of Apollo III’.
January 2026 will be a particularly significant anniversary for me - marking 20 years since I was inspired to order and teach myself to play from scratch, my first ever 10-string lyre! To mark this anniversary, I decided to include in this new release, this very same lyre, with its distinctively dark, mysterious kithara-like timbre - it is featured in track 5, “The Dark Magic of Medea”.
Wishing you all a peaceful Christmas & a prosperous New Year.
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