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Aren’t you fed up? (LYRICS, MP3)

Genre: Blend of jazz, rock and Greek folk
Arrangement: electric guitar (variations of solo electric guitar performances ranging from metallic to imitating bagpipes), vocals, bass, drums (jazz-rock), Greek folk percussion
Rhythm: Greek folk rhythm 7/8
Lyrical subject: a call for rebellion against an inadequate political system, stressing the need for fighting statism and adopting global thinking and acting

Looking for something to believe in (LYRICS, MP3)

Genre: Sui generis.
Arrangement: 12string guitar, that in some parts of the song imitates the sound of Greek folk instruments, such as bouzouki, lute etc, violin, cello, Greek folk percussion (daouli and
tuberleki)
Rhythm: Greek folk rhythm
Lyrical subject: the search of new ideals in a decaying world.

Wish I could change it all (LYRICS, MP3)

Genre: Rock ballad
Arrangement: Electric guitar,
Lyrical subject: the quest for serenity in the age of anxiety

Those with a brain (LYRICS, MP3)

Genre: rock
Arrangement: electric guitar, piano, keyboard, drums, vocals
Lyrical subject: a call for action against the dominion of the cheap, the fake and the stupid.

Ever (LYRICS, MP3)

Genre: Sui generis. Elements of religious Byzantine music and classical.
Arrangement: vocals, violin, keyboard
Lyrical subject: contemplation on the eternal forces behind human misery: ignorance,
passiveness, and fatalism.

ESSAYS

Essays on Music and Media

LYRICS

LYRICS (1) || LYRICS (2)  Ancient Greek epic and lyrical poems

translated and set to music by Ioannidis Nikolaos

MUSICAL WORKS

CD ALBUM: The Music of Ancient Greeks - Early Epic and Lyrical Poetry  An approach to the original singing of ancient Greek epic and lyrical poetry of the 8th-5th century B.C. with the use of 
  ancient Greek and contemporary folk instruments (ancient kithara, folk woodwinds- zournas, ney, flogera- classical guitar, ethnic percussion).
 

CD ALBUM: Mass insanity  Political songs dealing with the dominant political, social, and ethical issues of our time: the erosion of the nation state, globalization, terrorism, the moral and cultural decadence of modern society. Diversity of styles (blending of Ethnic, Rock, Classical), exhibition of guitar virtuosity (electric guitar,  fretless electric guitar, 12-string guitar), and ethnic percussion performance.
 

CD ALBUM: 12-string Guitar Works  Instrumentals of the 12-string classical guitar featuring various performance techniques (Western and Near Eastern)

CD ALBUM: Music and Religion Religious music from different cultures (extant ancient Greek religious songs, Byzantine chant, Gregorian chant, Quranic chant) 

English opera Oedipus Rex  Audio excerpt of this work is available online in mp3 format. Also available is the complete Greek text of Sophocles' tragedy "Oedipus the king" edited by IOANNIDIS

CD ALBUM: BE A MASTER OF YOUR FATE!  Classical, jazz, ethnic songs with political lyrical subjects: the inadequacy of the present political system of governance, the moral and cultural decadence of modern society, the role of dominant value systems in environmental destruction, etc.

IOANNIDIS' Works page

and the Ioannidis Mp3 page for downloadable mp3 files of most of the composer's musical works