A childhood dream, an experiment at first, an attempt to continue… ...that is all…

...and what is best than to have as guests this month two young musicians from Thessaloniki, Manos Mylonakis and George Papadopoulos – the group Your hand in mine.

Manos and George manage to compose magical music compositions mostly through acoustic instruments creating a unique atmosphere with sounds of past decades in combination with new unique, attractive sound colours.

Their work is characterized by high lyricism and composition wholeness that in its orchestrative development it probably draws up memories from the work of Manos Hadjidakis or Yann Tiersen.

The group Your hand in mine is probably the most promising music born in our country during the last years…

Lambros Mitropoulos

“To live from music today – and probably in general – is difficult, not to say impossible. For the time being we are not concerned about this, but if it happens sometime in the future (to live from music), it will be the best! We are also occupied with other things besides music. We occasionally work, since one of us graduated recently from the Architecture School, while the other is fighting with Physic and its laws!”

“We think that the most basic thing it to try at least not to have conscious music influences. We spend a lot of time and money listening to music and going to concerts, but we still feel that the creative procedure is something very personal, which we try to keep in a distance from our daily life and our spurs. Practically, sometimes the greatest influence is the instrument itself. Our love for the acoustic instruments leads us and does not let us deviate…
I wonder how “experimentally” you can play with a mandolin?! How metal can you play with a glockenspiel? If you pay a little more attention to the appearance and the sound of an accordion, you will be immediately influenced by the vagabond musicians of the whole world.”

Manos Mylonakis and George Papadopoulos - Your hand in mine

Their first complete work took place with the occasion of the music composition on the film “Yogoto no youme” (1933) of Mikio Naruse that was shown to the cinema festival of Thessaloniki of 2007. During the play of the movie, Your hand in mine played live creating this way an orchestral work of art.

They call themselves as:

“Vagabond musicians with self made instruments rehearse in a children’s room…”.