Miltos Logiadis—Antonis Sousamoglou

The Light in Between


Songs of the Interwar Era

Miltos Logiadis and Antonis Sousamoglou present a song palimpsest from the interwar period in Greece and Europe—an era that appeared carefree on its surface, yet it foreshadowed one of the darkest chapters in human history.

In the Greek context specifically, it was a time when the bourgeois song crossed paths with the amanés from Smyrna and the German cabaret, a period where the country was trying to carve out its musical identity in the wake of the Asia Minor Catastrophe while art music flourished in parallel. At the same time, pivotal figures of Greek music, such as Kostas Giannidis, Souyioul, Attik, Nikos Skalkottas, Vassilis Tsitsanis, and Giannis Papaioannou, were co-existing within a common legacy, albeit each one in his own music realm.