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Christos Athanassopoulos-Mortakis
Biographical Note

Born in Agrinio, he is the younger brother of Petros Athanasopoulos-Kalyvas. He plays the clarinet, the lute and the guitar with various bands in Athens and elsewhere in Greece.
Songs


Epirus Love Song
I’ll Be the Basil by Your Window
Βασιλικός θα γίνω
I’ll be the basil by your window,
I’ll stay unwed for your sake.
Come, come to me
and I’ll fill you with glee.
Come to th...

Peloponnese Processional Tune Love Song, Wedding Song
Let My Eyes Go See
Ας πα να δουν τα μάτια μου
Let my eyes go see for themselves
how my love spends her days,
lest she’s found another and fallen in love
and left me.
W...

Epirus Pogoni Immigration Song
My Heart-Sick Bird Flown Far From Home
Ξενιτεμένο μου πουλί
My heart-sick bird flown far from home,
joy you bring those far-flung lands,
sadness all you leave behind.
What'll I send,...

Asia Minor Smyrna Couplets Love Song
My Heartless Love (Smyrna's Bálos)
Καλέ, δε με λυπάσαι
My heartless love,
do you not feel for me
as you don your finery
and I lose myself for love of thee?
Come kiss me quick
...

Central Greece Euboea Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Lampoon
Our Tráta All Tattered
Η τράτα μας η κουρελού
Our battered old boat and its tattered old nets
patched over and over and yet always torn.
Our old boat
needs sails,
Our ...

Epirus Klephtic Song
Samarina
Σαμαρίνα
Hey, you young klephts,
you sons of Samarina,
if you go up to the mountains, the Samarina way
[don’t fire off shots, don’t...

Macedonia Couplets Love Song, Carnival Song
Why Did I Fall in Love With You? (Enteka (Eleven))
Τι 'θελα και σ' αγαπούσα
Why did I go and fall for you?
Why didn't I just get on with my life?
Now my head’s swimming
and knives have pierced my he...
Albums

Music from Greece: Domna Samiou
Lute
CD

My Emigrated Bird
Lute
LP