Events at Artnaldas Concept store have been scarce recently, but before the days of masks, restrictions and hand sanitisers, the chic Nicosia store hosted all sorts of evenings at its venue behind Makarios avenue. Cooking masterclasses, art exhibitions and food nights with guest chefs were once on the agenda and slowly they should return. In the meantime, Artnaldas is making a comeback with two live music events on July 12 and 19.

Music duo the Idaion Project, with Vaggelis Gettos and Hugo Enrique Olivos, is set to perform at Artnaldas this month. The project’s name derives from Idaion Andron, the vertical cave at the top of Psiloritis in Crete. It’s the site where Zeus was born and it symbolises the myth – the eternal refuge of man. “When history is confused,” explain the artists, “the myth takes over. When language fails to explain, music takes over: the mythology of sounds.” In a nutshell, that is what the Idaion Project is about.

Vangelis Gettos, inspired by this concept of the eternal cave, presents for the first time his own authentic compositions that orginate in the sounds of Cretan music and the eastern Mediterranean and extend to progressive rock, stoner, flamenco and fusion. With his pieces, lute and voice meets the Mexican drummer Hugo Henrique Olivos who, playing drums and percussion, gives the project special, dynamic extroversion.

Through stories about the reasons and circumstances from which the pieces sprang, the Idaion Project dives into the endless cave of music and brings to the surface a complex sound. All this in the atmospheric outdoor space of the Artnaldas Concept Experience.

Idaion Project

Live music by Vaggelis Gettos and Hugo Enrique Olives. July 12 and 19. Artnaldas Concept Experience, Nicosia. 8.30pm. Bookings: 22-350355