Nikiforos Aerakis

Nikiforos Aerakis was born in February 1945 at the village Anogia, in Rethimnon. Over three decades of music recordings and his even lengthier career as a professional musician allows us to include him in the list of the most talented artists of Cretan Music.

His unconventional presence that sometimes has reached the limits of a soulful primitivism, leads to a musical truthfulness that can only be sensed rather than being understood. Instead of an obvious artistic expedience, his music promotes the simplicity and honesty of what is still pure. Holding on to the memories of the past, Nikiforos Aerakis skillfully reinvents them while keeping alive the same feelings and produces those very sounds that are characteristic of Anogia and the Cretan music.