I think that despite the governments the Mediterranean Sea has always been a kind of a lake. Because people traveled a lot, communicating, interacting, sharing their culture, they now have common cultural roots. In my new album I try to find these common roots. There also are some subtle sound changes because of my work with Steve Shehan. The sound is now a little bit closer to pop-music sound.
Melodies are richer, more flexible.
The Mediterranean music is touching, roundish. It doesn't have those acute angles of Western music. But Western people usually can hardly perceive these quarter tones. Every sound exists in nature. It was the man who divided sounds into notes.