Panos Dimitrakopoulos
Biographical Note
Born in Athens in 1973, Panos Dimitrakopoulos lived in Aigio until 1992, when he returned to Athens to commence his studies. From 1995 onwards he started working as a professional musician, playing the Kanonaki and collaborating with some of the most important Greek artists, participating in concerts in Greece and abroad.
He has taught kanonaki at the National Conservatoire, the Athens Conservatoire and in the Department of Popular and Traditional Music of the Technical College of Epirus.
He participated in the recording sessions of Loreena McKennitt's record An ancient muse and in her performances in Grenada in Spain. Currently, amongst other activities, he collaborates with the musical groups 'Takim' and 'Quash'.
Source: www.musipedia.gr
Songs
Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Fable Song (Ballad)
A Little Shorty (Meli, Erythrae)
Ένας κοντός κοντούτσικος (Mελί Eρυθραίας)
A little shorty, a short little man,
aides pouli mou aides, had a beautiful wife
and the whole neighbourhood, aman aman, wa...
Propontis Peramos Fable Song (Ballad)
A Maid Would Have Her Way
Κουράσιν εβουλήθηκε
A maid would go
would go a-strolling
and then go back again.
She called her neighbours together
yes, by Saint George
and...
Propontis Nicomedea, Katirli Fable Song (Ballad)
A Prince Is to Be Wed (Evil In-Laws)
Αρχοντογιός παντρεύεται
A prince is to be wed
to a dark-eyed bride whose folk sought refuge here.
His bride-to-be’s from uprooted stock,
little re...
Eastern Aegean Chios Fable Song (Ballad)
A Trader Made His Way
Πραματευτής κατέβαινε
A trader made his way from Bulgar lands.
He led his trains of twelve and fifteen mules
and sang and spoke the while he trek...
Eastern Aegean Chios Fable Song (Ballad)
A Trader Made His Way
Πραματευτής κατέβαινε
A trader made his way from Bulgar lands.
He led his trains of twelve and fifteen mules
and sang and spoke the while he trek...
Cappadocia / Konya Anakou Acritic Song
A Widow Bore a Child (The Song of Porfyris)
Χήρα παιδίν εγέννησε
Asia Minor Erythraea, Reisdere Couplets Love Song
Again They Entered in the Dance
Πάλι ν-εβγήκαν στο χορό
Again they entered in the dance, four eyes as dark as olives,
four eyes that weave like shuttle through the hearts they brea...
Propontis Mudania Fable Song (Ballad)
Dawn Glowed in the East
Ξημέρωσε η ανατολή
The sun rose in the East and day broke in the West,
the young man led his black mount to water.
All along the way, he calle...
Thrace Acritic Song
Digenis Is Dying (The Death of Digenis)
Ο Διγενής ψυχομαχάει
Digenis is dying and the mountains are trembling,
and all the lords that heard it set out to visit him,
they set out, bring...
Macedonia Love Song
During Five Whole Months I Wandered
Πέντε μήνες γκιζερούσα
During five whole months I wandered
in the rose garden, light of my two eyes, in the rose garden,
searching for a comely wo...
Propontis Mudania Love Song
Early last summer
Πέρσι το καλοκαιράκι
Early last summer
I set my sights on a little bird
But chase as I would, lust as I might,
She’d always take flight.
She s...
Thrace Evros, Neos Pyrgos Fable Song (Ballad), Charon's Song
Fair Evgenoula (Charon and the Maid)
Η Ευγενούλα η μοσχονιά
Evgenoula, the fair maid beloved by all,
went and boasted she had no fear of death,
that she had houses tall and a sweethea...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song
For a Whole Seven Weeks...
Εφτά βδομάδες έκανα
For a whole seven weeks, my love, I did not speak to you;
because it was the time of Lent, I feared I’d make you sin.
I can...
Asia Minor Fable Song (Ballad)
Forty Stonemasons (Arta’s Bridge)
Σαράντα μαστορόπουλα - Της Άρτας το γεφύρι
A team of forty stonemasons and sixty prentice workers
were putting up a bridge across the river close by Arta.
The whol...
Propontis Couplets Love Song
Giannoula
Γιαννούλα
Life is sweet, despite all its torments,
And only a madman seeks death.
Giannoula,1 Giannoula, there’s nothing you don’t kn...
Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Table Song Wedding Song
Golden Table, Silver Plates
Για δέστε τράπεζα χρυσή
Constantinople Couplets Love Song
Health to You, O Holy One
Έχε γεια Παναγιά - Καροτσιέρης
In Galatá a shower falls, a downpour in Tatávla.
The loveliest of all the girls is she who’s dressed in black.
It was nothi...
Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Processional Tune | Couplets Love Song
I Will Sing Tonight
Απόψε θε να τραγουδώ
I will sing tonight with the singers,
my little duckling,
with the singers, save your love for me.
With the lads of Liviss...
Propontis Couplets Love Song
I gave up all I had & What’s wrong, Theonitsa?
Όλα μου τα παράτησα & Τι έχεις Θεονίτσα
I gave up all I had, all the joys life gave me,
And now walk hand in hand with my humility.
It’s you that torments me, but...
Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song
I'll jump from the battlements
Από τα μπεντένια πέφτω
I’ll jump from the battlements, I’ll end it all now
And my love shouts “for the love of God, catch him somehow”.
I didn't s...
Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
If I want black eyes
Μαύρα μάτια κι αν θελήσω
If I want black eyes, I have them in hand:
They're my darling’s, my other half’s.
Douneme, doumanaki, douneme, vai, vai,
D...
Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Couplets Lampoon
If you want to marry
Αν θέλεις για να παντρευτείς
If you want to marry, to take a wife
Come ask me do, I'll tell you who's good for you.
Don't take a white woman, no sack of...
Constantinople Couplets Love Song
In the workshops of Constantinople
Μέσ' της Πόλης τ' αργαστήρια
In the workshops of Constantinople,
In the gold and silver smiths’,
I first laid eyes on your likeness,
And my heart was y...
Thrace Acritic Song
Kostantis the Only Son
Μοναχογιός ο Κωσταντής
Kostantis the only son, young and cosseted,
his mother's only son, her precious darling.
She'd scrub him, comb his hair and...
Constantinople Love Song
Last Summer
Πέρσι το καλοκαιράκι
Last summer,
I set my heart on a little bird.
But though I chased her,
catch her I could not.
I set my lime twig trap,
m...
Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
May Your Window Catch Fire
Το παραθύρι σ’ να καεί
May your window catch fire and your door cave in
so I may get my hands
on your divine body.
You sit at your window with ot...
Cappadocia / Konya Sinasos
Mother, spring is here
Μάνα μ’ ήρτεν η άνοιξη
Mother, spring is here, full summer
A thousand workers they came out,
Out they came, they need a thousand hands.
Work, dea...
Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Love Song
My Love Has Sent for Me
Με μήνυσε η αγάπη μου
My love has sent for me, she’s my heart’s desire,
to go to her and kiss her. Shine, dear moon, shine upon her,
so I may go ...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Couplets Love Song
My old torments
Τα παλαιά μου βάσανα
My old torments have been and gone.
Now new ones with snake’s fangs have come along.
Mantalenia, Mantalenia1
Spare me a th...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Easter Song, Ritual Song
O Christ Is Risen (Easter Dance)
Χριστός Ανέστη μάτια μου
Christ is risen, darling one, so, come, let’s be a-kissing,
go fetch a tendril from a vine and, come, let us be wedded.
See...
Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Historical Song, National Legends and Laments
Old Nun A-Cooking
Καλογριά μαγέρευε
A nun was frying fish and a voice,
a shrill high voice, kept telling her again and again :
‘Stop cooking, old maid,
and Co...
Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Historical Song, National Legends and Laments
Old Nun A-Cooking
Καλογριά μαγέρευε
A nun was frying fish and a voice,
A squeaky little voice, kept telling her over and over:
- Stop cooking, old maid,
And C...
Cappadocia / Konya Sinasos Love Song
On my way to the mountains of Prussa
Πάγω στης Προύσας τα βουνά
On my way - oh aman, gel aman -
On my way to the mountains of Prussa,1
I found a cool brook bubbling.
I bent down to take ...
Asia Minor Smyrna Couplets Love Song
Poor sad love
Παραπονιάρικό μου
Poor sad love who weeps all day,
What is it ails you, why won’t you say?
Sneak to the window and pretend
It’s your marjora...
Central Greece Euboea, Kymi Couplets Sea and Sailors Song
Should You See a Vessel Pass
An’ should you see a vessel pass, passing the cape of Ochtoniá
oh take your little kerchief out and wave in signal to me.
S...
Propontis Nicomedea, Katirli Couplets Love Song, Spring Song
The May Month
Μάη μου με τα λούλουδα
The May month with its wealth of flowers and April with its dews,
I’ve got you on my mind again and didn’t sleep last night....
Central Greece Fthiotida, Ypati Sea and Sailors Song, Historical Song
Three Cretan Monks
Three Cretan monks and three from Mount Athos
prepared a ship to sail, prepared a ship to sail.
They prepared a ship to sai...
Propontis Acritic Song
Tsamandas (The Fight of Tsamados With His Son)
Ο Τσάμαντας
Up at Saint Thodoros' chapel,
at the church of Saint Kostantinos,
there are twelve circles dancing
and eighteen rings set ...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Couplets Wedding Song
Who Was the Matchmaker
Ποιός ήταν ο προξενητής
Love Song
You Dare to Speak Like That
Θα σπάσω κούπες
You dare to speak like that, I’ll smash the dishes
and all the glasses, damn your tart remarks!
Amán, amán, amán, I’m mad f...
Propontis Marmara Couplets For the Bride, Wedding Song
You wear white
Άσπρα φορείς
You wear white and hold white and white is your dress
And white the flowers that swoon at your passing.
Dance, sweet bride,...
Albums
Easter Songs
Kanun
CD
Epic Songs of Warriors and Heroes
Kanun
CD
Folk Fables in Song
Kanun
CD
I Tread the Earth Gently
Kanun
CD
In the Middle of the Sea
Kanun
CD
Music from Greece: Domna Samiou
Kanun
CD
My Old Torments
Kanun
Digital release
Songs of Cappadocia
Kanun
CD
Songs of Dame Sea
Kanun
CD
Songs of History and Heroes
Kanun
CD
Wedding Songs
Kanun
Unreleased collection
Concerts
29/10/1998 The Athens Concert Hall, Hall of the Friends of Music
The Known and the Unknown Domna
A great concert called 'The known and unknown Domna', part of...
08 & 09/03/2005 The Athens Concert Hall, Hall of the Friends of Music
Songs of Asia Minor with Domna Samiou
An Asia Minor tribute concert.
02/09/2001 Odeon of Herodes Atticus
A Bee Goes By
A concert for children performed by children with traditional...