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This CD includes songs and tunes in ‘7 beats to the bar’ (the rhythm of kalamatianos dances) and in ‘9 beats to the bar’ (the rhythm of zeibekikos and karsilamas dances) with lyrics and melodies both erotic and sorrowful.
Songs
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1. Kanelóriza
Asia Minor More
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2. Do not nurture any doubts
Asia Minor More
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3. My aching breast
Eastern Aegean More
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4. There are hearts that laugh
Asia Minor More
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5. Karsilamas dance
Asia Minor More
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6. Sokiani
Asia Minor More
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7. D'you hear the water-mills
Macedonia More
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8. This lovely summer...
Eastern Aegean More
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9. Mandilatos
Eastern Thrace & Roumelia More
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10. So, I decided I'd become...
Asia Minor More
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11. To whom then shall I tell my woe
Eastern Aegean More
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12. Karsilamas dance
Thessaly More
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13. You, sweet lass
Asia Minor More
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14. Vassilo Kalamatiani
Peloponnese More
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15. Dance tune
Macedonia More
- Production: Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association
- Year of release: 1995
- Type: CD
Notes
The idea of producing this collection has been running through my mind for some time. It contains tunes and songs in 7/8 rhythm, to which all syrtós and kalamatianós dances are performed as well as songs in 9/8 rhythm, that accompanies zeimbékikos and karsilamás dances.
The songs that are sung and danced throughout Greece to those two rhythms are indeed beyond numbers. Not surprisingly, therefore, that most of the eleven songs recorded for this collection are generally unknown. The verses are old and about erotic love, the sore at heart, the sensitive lover, and so on. I thought, what a pity it would be if they were lost and young people would not learn of them.
I was concerned to present in their entirety the songs, whose many verses relate a story, in contrast to the regrettable habit commonplace today of singing only the first two or three verses and thus destroying the unity and sense of the song. For I believe that through the verses of our demotic songs we can turn back the pages to another age and get to know the poetry, the deeper feelings of the people of those times, and so understand their way of living and their way of thinking.
Also, I have tried to render the songs in their original form with the musical characteristics of the region where they first were sung.
I fervently entreat those who wish to sing those songs to show the respect they deserve.
Domna Samiou December 1995
Translated by John Leatham
Credits
Production team
- Domna Samiou (Research, Collection, Musical supervision),
- Socrates Sinopoulos (Assistant musical supervisor),
- Tasia Papanikolaou (Production assistant)
Sound team
- Kostas Prikopoulos (Sound engineer),
- Yannis Smyrnaios (Sound engineer),
- Petros Siakavellas (Sound editing),
- Yannis Smyrnaios (Sound editing)
Booklet team
- John Leatham (English translation),
- Dimitra Toulatou (Text Editing),
- Lika Florou (Design and layout)
Singer
- Domna Samiou (This lovely summer..., To whom then shall I tell my woe, Sokiani, My aching breast, Vassilo Kalamatiani, Kanelóriza, Do not nurture any doubts, There are hearts that laugh, So, I decided I'd become...)
Choir
Clarinet
- Petros Athanasopoulos-Kalyvas (Do not nurture any doubts),
- Nikos Philippidis (Sokiani, D'you hear the water-mills, Vassilo Kalamatiani, You, sweet lass, Kanelóriza, There are hearts that laugh, Karsilamas dance, Karsilamas dance, Dance tune)
Flute
Violin
- Stathis Koukoularis (Sokiani, D'you hear the water-mills, Kanelóriza, Karsilamas dance, Karsilamas dance),
- Yiorgos Marinakis (Vassilo Kalamatiani, You, sweet lass, There are hearts that laugh, Dance tune, Mandilatos),
- Nikos Oikonomidis (Do not nurture any doubts)
Constantinopolitan lyra
Kanun
- Thanassis Stergiou (To whom then shall I tell my woe, Kanelóriza, Karsilamas dance, So, I decided I'd become...)
Tambouras
Constantinopolitan lute
- Socrates Sinopoulos (This lovely summer..., Sokiani, D'you hear the water-mills, My aching breast, You, sweet lass, Kanelóriza, There are hearts that laugh, Karsilamas dance, Karsilamas dance, Dance tune, Mandilatos)
Saz
Santur
Oud
- Joanna Andrews (Do not nurture any doubts),
- Haig Yazdjian (To whom then shall I tell my woe, So, I decided I'd become...)
Lute
- Kostas Philippidis (This lovely summer..., Sokiani, D'you hear the water-mills, Vassilo Kalamatiani, You, sweet lass, Kanelóriza, Do not nurture any doubts, There are hearts that laugh, Karsilamas dance, Karsilamas dance, Dance tune, Mandilatos)
Goblet drum
- Yiorgos Gevgelis (This lovely summer..., Sokiani, D'you hear the water-mills, Vassilo Kalamatiani, You, sweet lass, Kanelóriza, There are hearts that laugh, Karsilamas dance, Karsilamas dance, Dance tune, Mandilatos),
- Andreas Pappas (Do not nurture any doubts)
Bendir (frame drum)
Informant (source of the song)
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