Neither my grandmother, nor my grandfather, nor anyone else related to me, as far as I know at least, comes from Smyrna. But I, like most Greeks, carry it inside me as a sweet memory, as misery, as pain but also strangely as a cause of pride and joy, which I hope my music will show you.

In this album, I didn't want to remind the well-known songs, the sounds or the music of Smyrna. After all, I am neither a musicologist nor a scholar of our tradition.

I wanted, in my own way, to describe my many times conflicting feelings in the living memory of what happened there but also of what is unfortunately to come.

In the end I think I wrote the music of a film about Smyrna, a film, which I see now, looking through the eyes of those who were there, yesterday.

A music that I hope will still exist tomorrow.

STAMATIS SPANOUDAKIS

for Izmir...

1. Footprints on the ground.
2. Dance in the moonlight.
3. The caravan.
4. August 27.
5. I love you I shout.
6. The riddle.
7. Satan asker.
8. For Smyrna.
9. Memories.
10. I wanted.
11. Asia Minor Coward.
12. Walk in Kai.
13. Black Rider.
14. Stay there for a while.