De Tierra Lejana Venimos

from by Viktor Mastoridis

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(Traditional Puerto Rican Carol)
I love this song. I discovered it in a book of international Christmas Carols, and was so impressed by its beauty, that decided to record it. Me, my wife and a friend of ours (Djanan Turan) sing on that first recording in 2007. I wanted to include here the instrumental version made at that time, however, it was quite bland – the Italian mandolin would just play the melody, without any real inspiration. So I re-arranged the drum and percussion part and added the accordion at the beginning, and bouzouki improvisation at the end, which was recorded in one take only. And so a new version of the recording was born!

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from My Greek Christmas Album, released 16 October 2011
Puerto Rican traditional Carol

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tags: balkan world music greek greek music puerto rico world balkan bouzouki world music London

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Viktor's style is Balkan World Music: a fusion of Balkan folk with Rock, Blues, Pop and ... more Classical.

To date, he has recorded 12 albums.

His music appears in films, radio and TV programmes, including Discovery TV Channel, A Place Under The Sun (Channel 4 UK), Paul Merton's Adventures (Channel 5 TV), the Greek Olympic Games official CD released by EMI in 2004, etc. less

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