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Contents

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.
(barcode: 5204910000425)

Songs

  • 1. Kanelóriza
    Asia Minor More
  • 2. Do Not Nurture Any Doubts
    Asia Minor More
  • 3. My Aching Breast
    Eastern Aegean More
  • 4. There Are Hearts That Laugh
    Asia Minor More
  • 5. Karsilamas Dance
    Asia Minor More
  • 6. Sokiani
    Asia Minor More
  • 7. D'You Hear the Water-Mills
    Macedonia More
  • 8. This Lovely Summer...
    Eastern Aegean More
  • 9. Mandilatos
    Eastern Thrace & Roumelia More
  • 10. So, I Decided I'd Become...
    Asia Minor More
  • 11. To Whom Then Shall I Tell My Woe
    Eastern Aegean More
  • 12. Karsilamas Dance
    Thessaly More
  • 13. You, Sweet Lass
    Asia Minor More
  • 14. Vassilo Kalamatiani
    Peloponnese More
  • 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

  • Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association Choir (D'You Hear the Water-Mills, You, Sweet Lass)

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

  • Nikos Philippidis (Mandilatos)

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

  • Socrates Sinopoulos (To Whom Then Shall I Tell My Woe, So, I Decided I'd Become...)

Kanun

  • Thanassis Stergiou (To Whom Then Shall I Tell My Woe, Kanelóriza, Karsilamas Dance, So, I Decided I'd Become...)

Tambouras

  • Perikles Papapetropoulos (To Whom Then Shall I Tell My Woe, So, I Decided I'd Become...)

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

  • Perikles Papapetropoulos (This Lovely Summer..., My Aching Breast)

Santur

  • Vassilis Soukas (Do Not Nurture Any Doubts)

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)

  • Vangelis Karipis (To Whom Then Shall I Tell My Woe, My Aching Breast, So, I Decided I'd Become...)

Informant (source of the song)

  • Stratis Chiropaídis (This Lovely Summer..., To Whom Then Shall I Tell My Woe)

References

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When they used to build with the materials from the ruined temples
1 March 1996 Magazine Difono
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'Kindly be respectful to them...'
16 December 1995 Newspaper Eleftherotypia

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