{"id":6806,"date":"2017-05-05T14:02:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T21:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=6806"},"modified":"2017-05-05T14:09:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T21:09:27","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-greek-guitarist-yorgos-nousis-plays-mamen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-greek-guitarist-yorgos-nousis-plays-mamen\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: Greek Guitarist Yorgos Nousis Plays &#8216;Mamen&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yorgos Nousis is a Greek guitarist and composer currently living in Vienna. Since he started performing in the early &#8217;90s, he has played in many European countries, recorded ten albums, and also had nearly a dozen of his original pieces, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.productionsdoz.com\/en\/catalog\/sheet-music-for-guitar-en\/solo-guitar-en\/mamen-en\/?v=7516fd43adaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this week&#8217;s Pick<\/a>) published by Doberman-Yppan. His compositions have been described as \u00a0&#8220;a fusion of classical, flamenco, and jazz elements, influenced by the traditional Greek music.&#8221; This particular work dips into several different genres, starting out fast and somewhat jazzy, moving into a beautifully lyrical ballad space at about the three-minute mark, and then wrapping up with a return to the feeling of the opening. It looks like it would be a lot of fun (and a challenge) to play! In the video, Nousis plays a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sigletosguitars.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vasilis Sigletos<\/a> guitar. \u00a0<em>\u2014Blair Jackson<\/em><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6814\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DO1004.jpg?resize=500%2C667\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DO1004.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DO1004.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yorgos Nousis is a Greek guitarist and composer currently living in Vienna. Since he started performing in the early &#8217;90s, he has played in many European countries, recorded ten albums, and also had nearly a dozen of his original pieces, including this week&#8217;s Pick) published by Doberman-Yppan. His compositions have been described as \u00a0&#8220;a fusion of classical, flamenco, and jazz elements, influenced by the traditional Greek music.&#8221; This particular work dips into several different genres, starting out fast and somewhat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":6812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","category-watch","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/yorgos.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}