Every new release that concerns some new material or some material that contains the artist’s attempt to speak again through a musical “therefore”, is another opportunity for him to unravel his quest.

When the primary goal of the material is the worthwhile and real recording of his talent to the benefit and enlightenment of many people, it is, as I understand it, worth communicating. One such new venture it is that I make here, with the positive and significant co-operation of my company, Universal Music, with the aim of giving  people around us, that is, you, something new, through the steps of a course that did not walk in order to leave their trace, but so as to look for their destination, recording the blessed moments which, by means of their faint gleam, helped, so that the target not be missed.

Thank you for being on my side, for buying my cds, for listening to them, asking for them; thank you, who do not desire to speak after their hearing; thank you, who support me, so that I can keep releasing such works; also, thank you, who with truth and love put me in my place, so that I do not grow arrogant, so that I can realise that fame and success, which are so inadvertently seductive through their darkness, do not suffice to make one worthwhile, even when what he produces is clear and beneficial, thus making him get along with the eternal fall of self-justification.

In this cd I meant to collect randomly those moments that I felt like recording with my interpretation of hymns, my love for God.

There! As if we were together in a desert country church and you told me, “come on, Petros, chant something that will give us the opportunity to feel the sacredness of this place, something that will give us the chance to hear your voice in what we so much love to hear from you…”.

So, relax, there is plenty of time, forget all about time and place, sit on the straw chairs around and simplify your thoughts. Our journey will last long, we’ll escape to different places, different sensations. Close your eyes, open your heart and free the primitive breath, your soul, clear your sight, feel the way you felt when you were little kids and come along to recover joy, hope and faith from the point where we inadvertently left them once upon a time in our lives.

Whatever is left as fruit, as the result of this meeting of ours, keep it as a charm, you will need it at those moments when you will look up and ask – look for – try to understand where the body goes and where the soul, what their substance is, so that you have a point of reference to the relevance of the heavenly dimension.

Keep the fruit of my works, not me, for I myself arrange my life, so it is imperfect and unworthy, the potential talent – or talents – though, that I may have are granted to me by God, so, no matter how imperfect I may be, there must be something left in them with the breath of the One Who has granted them.

                                                               Petros Gaitanos

                                                               January 2008