Career
He wrote lyrics for most of the songs he recorded and played the outi (the Greek oud). Having moved to Athens, Asikis tried to continue his professional career of fabricating bronze bed frames, but failed after six months. He would frequent a club called "The Asia Minor", the center of all laika at the time, where he was warmly accepted by contemporary musicians.
In the late 1920s, he recorded music for Columbia, Odeon, and Parlophone as did other musicians at the time, like Kostas Skarvelis.
In the 1930s his compositions were sung by many famous artists of the time including Kostas Nouros, Rosa Eskenazu, Stellakis Perpiniadis, Rita Abatzi, Marika Politissa, Kostas Roukounas, Kostas Tsanakos, Marika Kanaropoulou, and Georgia Mettake. In the later part of the decade, he abandoned composing songs with Asia Minor instruments, id est (that is) outi, lyre, and violin, and wrote songs using the bouzouki.