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| Smyrneiko & Rembetiko |
| Smyrneiko is the song from Asia Minor. In itself a unique mix of Eastern and European music, it was transformed into the Rembetiko style, which is nothing less than the core of Greek popular music, that being a group with bouzouki, baglamas, guitar and a singer. Moving lyrics cover all aspects of Greek life between the wars and during the refugee influx (1920-1939). |
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Remembrances of a Music Scene THE SMYRNEIKO ERA 1907-39 |
| Smyrneiko is the song from Asia Minor (western Turkey), sung by people all around the Mediteranean. This collection presents Smyrneiko saga through recordings from Smyrna and Istanbul (CD I: 1907-19), Athens (CDII: 1928-37) and New York (CD III: 1919-50). |
| 30,25 EUR |
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Two Nights with Tsitsanis |
| He is the musical genius that transformed the underground Rembetiko style into the Laiko (popular) style and managed to establish its musical form, orchestration and lyrics. Depending on the audience’s mood, he could play as long as he wished. He’d sing his own compositions and those of others, leap into off-beat solo improvisations, add lyrics and create new versions of his songs on the spur of a moment. A double album recorded live in the 1970's. |
| 15,13 EUR |
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Stelios Keromytis |
| Keromytis was one of the pioneers who created the Rembetiko style (band with bouzouki, guitar, baglamas, one or more singers, lyrics on the life of a particular marginal social group) in Piraeus (the port of Athens) during the 1930’s. A key figure in the development of the Rembetiko ito the laiko (popular) style with a striking personality mirrored in his moving lyrics. |
| 12,00 EUR |
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Vamvakaris - Payioumtzis - Papaioannou |
| This is the typical Rembetiko band, bouzouki, baglama, guitar plus one or more singers. The album includes two live recordings, one with Vamvakaris & Payioumtzis, members of the band that established the Rembetiko style, and the last performance of Papaioannou, another rembetiko pioneer. Recorded in the 1960's and 70's when most of these songs were still censored, the album transmits the outlaw-ish atmosphere of such performances, at a time when Greece was under a military dictatorship. |
| 12,00 EUR |
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The complete works of Yiorgos Batis |
| This album includes all the songs composed by Batis, the witty baglama player of the legendary Four From Piraeus, the group that established the Rembetiko style in the 1930’s. |
| 12,00 EUR |
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Anestis Delias - Markos Melkon |
| Delias played the baglamas, an instrument similar to the bouzouki, only quite smaller. He was a member of the Legendary Four from Piraeus, the group that established Rembetiko in the 1930’s. He was a refugee from Asia Minor, and a heroine addict. This album includes all his compositions. |
| 12,00 EUR |
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The complete works Yiovan Tsaous |
| Tsaous was the only rembetiko composer of the 1930’s whose main instrument was the tambouras (saz in Turkish). This added a unique element to his compositions, in addition to the moving lyrics: melodies based on the arab Persian modes (macams). This album includes almost all of his compositions. |
| 12,00 EUR |
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Konstandinos Nouros: THE PHENOMENAL VOICE FROM SMYRNA |
| Born in Asia Minor, Nouros is the phenomenal singer who brought the Smyrneiko style to the meridian of its sweetness: his performances of amanedes, the slow and melancholic songs based on the singer’s improvisation on a fundamental melody. |
| 15,13 EUR |
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Andonis Dalgas |
| Dalgas was one of the great singers who settled in Athens after the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe and performed in the Smyrneiko Style. His songs are mostly amanedes, slow mournful songs based on two verses, in which the singer improvises in an elaborate style. |
| 12,00 EUR |
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Authentic recordings From Smyrna & Istanbul before 1922 |
| Smyrneiko is the Greek song from Asia Minor, which flourished in the early 1900’s. In itself a unique mix of Eastern and European music, Smyrneiko mainly includes violin, oud, sandouri and saz bands. The singers’ elaborate style is based on arab-persian scales (macam). |
| 12,00 EUR |
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