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Joanna Andrews
Biographical Note

(1955-2015). Joanna Andrews was born in 1955 in New York and died on 29/12/2015 in Switzerland. She was the daughter of writer, scholar, poet and philhellene Kevin Andrews, who collaborated with Domna Samiou.
She studied the oud in London and Egypt. Apart from Domna Samiou, she worked with Ross Daly, Psarantonis, Eleftheria Arvanitaki and others. Her repertoire included traditional and original compositions of Eastern music.
Songs

Asia Minor Erythraea, Vourla Table Song | Processional Tune | Couplets Sad and Plaintive Song
At Dawn
At dawn not once did I get up without sighing
arise, my sun, come, talk to me
without bending again on the pillow and cryin...

Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song
Ataris
Άταρης
I vowed to the Holy Virgin
not to sing again.
Ataris!
But for your sake
I will break the vow.
Four!
Once again four bla...


Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song
Dimitroula
You dance, my spoilt one, but I don't know who are you,
from your stature you seem, scampish perivolaria,
to be of noble bi...

Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song
Do Not Nurture Any Doubts
Υποψία να μην έχεις
Oh, do not nurture any doubts about my love for you.
I feel quite lost when you are gone one hour from me.
You are a garden...

Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Processional Tune | Couplets Love Song
I Come and You Are Asleep
I come and you are asleep amid the white jasmine,
wake up wherever you might live and be, my bushy lemon tree.
My partridge...


Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
Like the Marble of the City (Constantinople)
Σαν τα μάρμαρα της Πόλης
Like the marble slabs that stand in St. Sophia
so well-matched and symmetrical are your eyebrows, eyes and hair.
I have dec...

Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song
The Water of Life (Olmaz)
Από τα γλυκά σου μάτια
The water of Life flows from your sweet eyes.
I asked you for a little but you didn’t give me any to drink.
Impossible, my ...

Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Processional Tune | Couplets Love Song, Wedding Song
Wake up My Black Eyed One (The Grasses of the Earth)
Wake up my black eyed one I’ve come to your neighbourhood,
I have brought you a golden tress to plait your hair.
Your black...

Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song
Yioryitsa
I intended to love you, my Yioryítsa,
and nobody to know of it.
Now our own people learn of it, my Yioryítsa,
strangers to...

Constantinople Table Song Love Song
You Have Entangled Me
You have entangled me, you have,
like a bee,
I am fed up being your slave
and also your ransomer, my little one.
You have...
Albums

Kaneloriza
Oud
CD

Songs of Asia Minor 1
Oud
LP

Songs of Asia Minor 2
Oud
LP

Songs οf Asia Minor
Oud
CD