In May 2023 I performed in and co-produced a 1-day festival called Μουσικός Περίπατος στη Βάβλα / Musical Promenade in Vavla, in a mountainous village in the Larnaka district of Cyprus. The event included seven acts performing in traditional houses, courtyards and stone-paved streets of the village, followed by a DJ set in the centre of the village, with various homemade local products on sale. It also involved an art exhibition by local painter Paskalis Anastasi, whose painting “Vavla Village, Morning Light” is featured in the poster and brochure.  

The event was held under the auspices of the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture as part of the 2023 Cultural Decentralisation Program, with additional support from the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment.




Graphic design by Popi Pissouriou
Photos by Panayiotis Mina


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Video of Appalachian ballad ‘Pretty Saro’ at Sage Gateshead artist residency:




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Sage Gateshead residency announcement





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From 2020-2021 I was the performance doula for this project at Momentum Theatre in Odense, Denmark. Among the many things that emerged from this project was this durational, open form, installation-performance called På Jorden (On Earth).

Team: Monia Sander (director), Marius Ursu, Louisa Yaa Aisin, Alaa Abdol-Hamid, Ylva Maia Havndrup (performers), Line Dahler Eriksen, Nanna Katrine Hansen, Samara Sallam (research team), Charlotte von Magius Gross (permagardener), Cæcilie Tørnsø (scenographer), Eliza Bozek, Stephen McEvoy (sound artists), Flora Brandt (light artist),  Linda Lamignan (costume designer).







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Album release performance at Fengaros Reacts online festival, November 2021

Photos by Paris Christophi


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Video for ‘Almonds for the Present Moment’ from my album Abundance, featuring a special votive candle released with the album, made in collaboration with Vasiliki Riala and Savvas Avraam. Video by Giorgos Sylianou. 

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NTS Sunday · Phil's Jazz Dis-Junction w/ Sophie Fetokaki & Lucy Railton - 220821

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Bist du bei mir from my album Abundance on the The Wire’s radio show on resonance fm, presented by Shane Woolman.


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A little series of home movies made in and around the village of Vavla, in Cyprus.  

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A version of the 18th century German aria Bist du bei mir that Fred Thomas and I made together is out on vol 4 of Nonclassical's Outside the Lines compilation series. Here is a short text I wrote about the release:

This little song was copied by Anna Magdalena Bach into her musical notebook, sometime around 1725. The song used to be attributed to J.S. Bach, but actually it is probably by the composer Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel.

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It is one of many songs and arias in the notebook that take death as their subject in a manner that expresses the Lutheran concern with the spiritual practice of ars moriendi, the art of dying.

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When Lefteris, Andreas, Fred and I gathered to record my album Abundance, I hadn’t decided to put this song on it. But, being an album of ritual, transition, celebration and devotion, it made perfect sense when Fred suggested it.
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The song is about leaving this world with confident assurance of salvation in Christ. It begins, "If you are with me, I will go joyfully / To my death and to my rest."

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Since the time of recording, I have learned a deeper lesson about the importance of ars moriendi, of practicing a relation to death, of preparing to greet death with a radiant and devotional gratitude for living.
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I feel that music is at its deepest level of sedimentation a devotional practice, a spiritual practice, and I've always been struck by the devotional power of this song. The absolute foreverness of those words.

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As with all acts of making, this version grew from many seeds. One of them is a birthday present I made for Fred many years ago, a layered recording made in my bedroom with the melody of the song woven into lines from Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet.

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It was an afterthought, and we recorded it last, and it will appear last on the album, as it does here in this compilation. It is a final song, but not a song of ends. It is a song that passes into the other side of repetition.

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Bist du bei mir was recorded and mixed by Andreas Trachonitis at Studio eleven63, with additional recording by Alex Harker.

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eavesdropping.london · Sophie Fetokaki 'The Resurrection'