As third and fourth generation of Pontic Greeks we have a deep-routed love for our occupied motherland which, unfortunately, has been deprived from us. We always try to remember, and commemorate not only of our 353000 mass murdered ancestors, but also, of the ones that were not given the chance to be born. We wanted to produce a song for the genocide of Pontic Greeks at the hands of Ottoman Turks. We did this without the use of Pontic lyre, nor by singing in the Pontic dialect, besides, there are many more beautiful songs with these features. Our goal was to make known, one of the most tragic crimes in the modern European history, to those people that don’t know much about it, or have never heard of it. We present this to you, with respect to the memory of all those lost. Thanks to : Thanasis Pananakis, Veronica Lahana, Panagiotis Berdenis and Konstantinos Mavropoulos for their invaluable help. Dedicated to Haris Efkarpidis (RIP). Erifili Nika - Recitation George Katsanos - Hammond Melodion, Mellotron, Theremin, Hurdi Gurdi Vasilis Mousakos - Electric Guitar Spiros Mazis - Electric Bass Antonis Adelfidis - Keyboards, Audio Editing, Recordings The Swede - Drums lord - Text translation in English language George Valvis - Cover artwork Thodoris Makridis - Producer assistant Mixed and Mastered by Dimitris Delis Composed, Arranged and Produced by Antonis Adelfidis Lyrics were based on testimonials of Pontic refugees. In particular, from the texts; "The genocide of Pontic Greeks during the period of the Young Turks (1915-1918)" by Constantine Fotiades, "The genocide of Pontic Greeks" by Haris Tsirkinides, and "Memory of Pontus: Unknown testimonials from the genocide". Copyediting by Antonis Adelfidis
