Daemonia Nymphe (''Δαιμόνια Νύμφη'') is a

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music band established in 1994 by Spyros Giasafakis and Evi Stergiou. The band's music is modeled after

Ancient Greek music Music was almost universally present in ancient Greek society, from marriages, funerals, and religious ceremonies to theatre, folk music, and the ballad-like reciting of epic poetry. It thus played an integral role in the lives of ancient Greek ...

and is often categorized as neoclassical or

neofolk Neofolk, also known as apocalyptic folk, is a form of experimental music blending elements of folk and industrial music, which emerged in punk rock circles in the 1980s. Neofolk may either be solely acoustic or combine acoustic folk instrumenta ...

. Daemonia Nymphe uses authentic instruments, including

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, varvitos, krotala,

pandoura The pandura ( grc, πανδοῦρα, ''pandoura'') or pandore, an ancient string instrument, belonged in the broad class of the lute and guitar instruments. Akkadians played similar instruments from the 3rd millennium BC. Ancient Greek artwork d ...

and

double flute The ''double flute'' is an ancient category of wind instrument, a set of flutes that falls under more than one modern category in the Hornbostel Sachs system of musical instrument classification. The flutes may be double because they have paralle ...

, which are made by the Greek master Nicholas Brass. Their shows are very theatrical, with members wearing masks and ancient dresses. Their lyrics are drawn from Orphic and Homeric hymns and Sappho's poems for

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and

Hekate Hecate or Hekate, , ; grc-dor, Ἑκάτᾱ, Hekátā, ; la, Hecatē or . is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches, a key, snakes, or accompanied by dogs, and in later periods depicte ...

Members

*Spyros Giasafakis *Evi Stergiou *Maria Stergiou *Victoria Couper *Vangelis Paschalidis *Stephen Street *Christopher Brice

Discography

*''The Bacchic Dance of the Nymphs'', 1998 *''Tyrvasia'', 1999 *''Daemonia Nymphe'', 2002 *''The Bacchic Dance of the Nymphs – Tyrvasia, 2004 *''Krataia Asterope'', 2007 *'' Psychostasia'', 2013 *''Macbeth'', 2016

References

External links

Official website
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