Santorini has been a place to settle – find stillness and consider new music from a calm place. The little town a confection of stolid earth walled houses, built one upon another, falling higgledy up the caldera. From a distance it looks like snow crusting the lava… In a deep shadow cellar an old man carved altarpieces and mermaids out of the air, cutting the light with crimson and lapis. Along a little in the Mediterranean museum of ancient music I strummed instruments 4,300 years old (this town might have been built for me : ) Opposite across a leaf shade square is Atlantis books, moved from its cliff top teeter and settled into the earth: I bought Aeschylus, Orwell – and Lao Tzu for Niimi. I hope something of this brilliant light seeps into the songs…
Plant
Boat
Coffee
Mermaid
Atlantis Books
Atlantis 2
Map corner from atop the philosophy tower
Drink up now it’s getting on time to close…
Sunset over Atlantis
73 year old dacite we passed on the trek down from the volcano’s summit
73 year old Dacite
Map
73 year old Dacite
73 year old Dacite