Polychronion - Epic Byzantine Music

You can buy this song and the rest of my music here: An original composition by Farya Faraji. This is a re-upload of the original version I had posted two weeks ago, I wasn’t satisfied with the result of it. Some of the mixing was off, and I had been adamant in stressing the second syllable of all the words to keep a steady rhythm to the chant, but I regretted the decision afterwards seeing as it stretched the natural intonations of Greek too far, as many of my subscribers had pointed out. This one respects the Byzantine convention of putting the musical stress on the word’s phonetic stress accent much more than the first one, and some of the mixing problems are fixed. Please note that this isn’t actual Byzantine music, nor does it seek to be--it’s modern “Epic“ music which mixes a “film soundtrack“ style with Modern Greek musical language and instruments to produce an image of Byzantine civilisatio
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