Lara St. John sent Psathas a selection of folk tunes from which to choose and base two new works on. Psathas chose o ilios (the sun), a tsamikos dance from Roumeli (the colloquial name for the central region of Greece), and dui dui (two two), which he renamed My Love Awakes and The Pain Will Find Us, respectively.

The Pain Will Find Us is a transcription and arrangement of a Greek folk tune from the Vasilis Paiteris recording Song of Greece's Gypsies. 

My Love Awakes, commissioned by violinist Lara St. John, is a transcription and arrangement of a tsamikos dance from Roumeli heard on the Greek Folk Orchestra recording, The Greek Dances of Mainland Greece.