Michael Levy

IMMENSE gratitude to all my followers on Spotify! Through the organic sharing power of their Spotify Playlists alone, as an independent artist recording from home, today I attained over 60,000 monthly listeners!! #spotifyplaylist #Spotify #ancientmusic #lyre #independentartists

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Michael Levy

Further to my recent posts on the imminent release of my new album, “Invocation to Athena”, I would also like to invite all my much valued YouTube subscribers for the opportunity of a Listening Party ahead of the 1st January release date, which I will be personally hosting via Bandcamp on 30th December, 7pm GMT:

michaellevy.bandcamp.com/merch/invocation-to-athen…

During the Bandcamp Listening Party, during which all those attending will be the first people on the planet to preview this new album in full, I will be available to answer any of your questions on the creation of this project and the inspiration behind my music.

Wishing everyone a Happy & Healthy New Year!

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Michael Levy

Dear Much Valued Subscribers,

I am delighted to announce that my new album, “Invocation to Athena”, is now available to pre-save on Spotify, ahead of its release across all the usual digital music platforms on 1st January, 2026:

open.spotify.com/prerelease/3XffBOVDbZuA3oVKzO2tQQ…

The tracks feature both a selection of new, original pieces for recreated ancient lyres & kithara in the distinctive expressive qualities of the original ancient Greek Modes, as well as a completely re-recorded and remastered version of the track "The Apparations of Phantasos", originally from my 2021 album, "Echoes of Ancient Greece" - the only piece of music that actually came to me in a dream!

On the morning of 6th March, 2021, I woke up with this tune still in my head & before the trance-like dream-music evaporated back into the ethers, I grabbed my cell phone and used it to record the melodic outline which I sleepily hummed into the microphone. To bring the dream-music more closely back to how I experienced it, this new recording of the track is much more vividly mixed and mastered. It is performed here, with the rich, dark and deep timbre of my Luthieros ‘Lyre of Apollo III’.

January 2026 will be a particularly significant anniversary for me - marking 20 years since I was inspired to order and teach myself to play from scratch, my first ever 10-string lyre! To mark this anniversary, I decided to include in this new release, this very same lyre, with its distinctively dark, mysterious kithara-like timbre - it is featured in track 7, “The Ghostly Minions of Melinoe".

Wishing you all a peaceful Christmas & a prosperous New Year.

Warmest wishes

Michael

#ancientmusic #ancientgreece #lyre #kithara #meditationmusic #meditativemusic #Spotify

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Michael Levy

Special thanks to all my Spotify listeners in 2025 - who so kindly shared my music across 34,100 Spotify Playlists! Warmest wishes for 2026.
#Spotify #spotifyplaylist #lyre #meditationmusic

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Michael Levy

Dear Channel Subscribers ,

I am delighted to announce that my new album, "Invocation to Athena", due for release on 1st January 2026, can now be pre-ordered from Bandcamp!
Also due for release across all the usual digital music platforms on New Year's Day, only on Bandcamp can studio quality audio (96,000 Hz in 24 Bit Definition) be purchased - with a complete PDF booklet of the detailed album notes included:



michaellevy.bandcamp.com/album/invocation-to-athen…

Thanks you all for your support and whose invaluable comments of appreciation continue to inspire me to create new music for the recreated ancient lyre!

Seasons Greetings,

Michael

#ancientmusic #lyre #ancientgreece #mythology #meditationmusic

2 months ago | [YT] | 81

Michael Levy

My lyre theme 'Hymn to Zeus' orchestrated into Rufus's Wainwright's opera 'Hadrian' got a mention in the book "Queer Opera" by musicologist Andrew Sutherland! 😀

(This 'official mention' of my music certainly compensates for no mention whatsoever in the credits of the program for the third performance of the opera in Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti in Spoleto, Italy! 😞)
#opera #Hadrian #rufuswainwright #hadrianopera

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Michael Levy

I have the initial idea for a 2026 album, "Invocation to Athena"! Here are a couple of potential album covers which I am considering - all feedback as usual, very welcome!

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Michael Levy

As a devoted 'cat dad' myself, the story told in this touching review someone posted on Bandcamp of my album "Musica Lyra" brought tears to my eyes - the most poignant use of my music I have so far learnt of.

As another remarkable coincidence, the album cover I designed was based on a close-up from a Roman-era mosaic of Orpheus - calming animals with the beauty of his lyre music.

#orpheus #meditativemusic #meditationmusic #lyre #ancientmusic #catlovers #catlover

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Michael Levy

Hi everyone,

Apologies for the recent reduction in uploads - rather like what caused the collapse of the Roman Empire, I'm currently concentrating on consolidating rather than endlessly expanding my own 'musical empire'!

In particular, I am concentrating on promoting some of what I consider to be my higher quality albums on Spotify, which through random chance, regrettably did not fair as well in streams as other of my ' lesser' releases! Throughout August ,I am promoting my 2023 release, 'Musica Lyra' - an ancient Roman-themed album, whose tracks were actually inspired from themes of Stoic Philosophy...do please 'spread the word'!

Having no record company to do my tedious promo stuff, each & every new Spotify playlist featuring my music is another invaluable means by which unfamiliar ears out there become familiar with my 'New Ancestral' musical mission - thanks once more, for your invaluable support!

Warmest wishes

Michael

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5 months ago | [YT] | 75

Michael Levy

Snap from Saturday's live London lyre gig at lavish Leighton House Museum, for their 'Echoes of Greece' Garden Party (a pity their legendary guitar-god neighbour, Jimmy Page wasn't around that evening to help me get to grips with their amp!)

[Echoes of Greece Garden Party at Leighton House, 2025, courtesy of Kevin Moran] #lyre #leightonhouse #leightonhousemuseum #London #ancientgreece

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