Trapezuntine - Epic Byzantine Music

Music by Farya Faraji, featuring musical samples by Greek musicians specialising in historical Greek music reconstruction. Please note that this isn’t actual Byzantine music from the Byzantine era, and it has no reconstructive or historical pretenses--it’s modern Greek music transposed onto an “epic music“ sensibility. The image is from a copy of a destroyed fresco depicting Alexios III, his mother Eirene and his wife Theodora, from the Panagia Theoskepastos Monastery. The Trapezuntine Empire, also called the Empire of Trebizond, was a rump state of the Byzantine Empire that emerged in the 13th century after the temporary fall of Byzantium to the hands of the Latin crusaders. It was established in Northeastern Anatolia, centering around the historical region of Pontus, around the city of Trebizond, today called Trabzon in Turkey; a city which is still a center of the Pontic Greek community. The theme being that of the Trapezuntine Empire, I tried to emulate as best I could the essence of Pontic Greek music