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Vangelis Karipis
Biographical Note

Vangelis Karipis was born in Athens in 1971. He became involved with traditional Greek music from an early age, studying oud as well as Byzantine music. From the age of sixteen he started teaching himself percussion. He followed seminars in ethnic percussion with important musicians such as Tricy Sankaran, Joe Santos, Jamey Haddad and Alfredo Reyes.
He has worked with many Greek composers and singers, and has participated in many concerts and international festivals (Womad, Sfinx, Meinz). He has collaborated with internationally renown soloists, both in concerts and in recordings.
In 2004 he represented Greece at the Medimuses international percussion convention in Tunis. He also participated in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Athens Olympics.
In 1997 he established, together with Andreas Pappas and Petros Kourtis, the percussion group "Krotala", with which since they perform concerts and participate in festivals in Greece and abroad.
His records to date are Krousta in collaboration with Andreas Pappas and Yiorgos Gevgelis, and Krotala with Andreas Papas and Petros Kourtis.
He teaches percussion in musical high schools and conservatoires in Athens.
Source: www.musipedia.gr
Songs

Macedonia Kavala, Nikisiani Love Song
A Blue Dove

Macedonia Historical Song
A Brave Young Lad Set Out

Central Greece Euboea, Agios Dimitrios Fable Song (Ballad)
A Fair Maid Did Sing

Cyclades Paros Fable Song (Ballad)
A Fair Maid Did Sing

Propontis Nicomedea Children's Song
A Little Seedling

Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Fable Song (Ballad)
A Little Shorty (Meli, Erythrae)

Sporades Skiathos Fable Song (Ballad)
A Little Shorty (Skiathos)

Propontis Peramos Fable Song (Ballad)
A Maid Would Have Her Way

Asia Minor Fable Song (Ballad)
A Maid from Evripο

Propontis Nicomedea, Katirli Fable Song (Ballad)
A Prince Is to Be Wed (Evil In-Laws)

Central Greece Fthiotida, Amphicleia Wedding Song
A Slender Girl Is to Be Wed

Eastern Aegean Chios Fable Song (Ballad)
A Trader Made His Way

Eastern Aegean Chios Fable Song (Ballad)
A Trader Made His Way


Pontus Acritic Song
Akritas Goes Hunting (The Death of Digenis)

Thrace Evros, Karoti Historical Song, National Legends and Laments
Alexander and the King

Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana Love Song
Along the Shore

Pontus Acritic Song
An Eagle Soared

Pontus Fable Song (Ballad)
At Trichas’ Bridge

Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Love Song
At the Casement of the House

Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Mandamados Wedding Song
Bless Us, Christ and Holy Mary (2)

Pontus Wedding Song
Close to Daybreak


Propontis Mudania Fable Song (Ballad)
Dawn Glowed in the East

Propontis Marmara Children's Song
Dili Dili

Thrace Evros, Soufli Lampoon, Children's Song
Down on the Barbary Plane

Propontis Mudania Love Song
Early last summer

Thrace Evros, Neos Pyrgos Fable Song (Ballad), Charon's Song
Fair Evgenoula (Charon and the Maid)

Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song
Fishermen, Have You Any Fish


Asia Minor Fable Song (Ballad)
Forty Stonemasons (Arta’s Bridge)

Epirus Fable Song (Ballad)
Four, Five, Nine Brothers

Propontis Couplets Love Song
Giannoula

Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Table Song Wedding Song
Golden Table, Silver Plates



Constantinople Couplets Love Song
Health to You, O Holy One

Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Skoutaro Swing Song, Children's Song
I Want to Climb up to the Top

Eastern Aegean Chios Sea and Sailors Song
I Want to Sail Away

Propontis Sea and Sailors Song
I Want to Savour All the Months

Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Sea and Sailors Song
I Went Aboard a Boat

Thrace Evros, Ambelakia Love Song
I Will Climb a Mountain High

Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Processional Tune | Couplets Love Song
I Will Sing Tonight

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Sea and Sailors Song, Immigration Song
I Wish to Climb a Mountain Height

Propontis Couplets Love Song
I gave up all I had & What’s wrong, Theonitsa?

Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song
I'll jump from the battlements

Pontus Eskikıran Philosophical Song
If I Die, Bury Me

Peloponnese Love Song
If I Had an Bitter Orange


Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
If I want black eyes

Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Couplets Lampoon
If you want to marry

Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana
In Vervena, in Doliana

Cyclades Paros Love Song
In a Fine Orchard

Constantinople Couplets Love Song
In the workshops of Constantinople


Sporades Skyros Couplets Love Song, Spring Song
It's in May the Partridge Sings

Thessaly Magnesia, Trikeri Sea and Sailors Song, Lampoon
Kaklamaniko




Constantinople Love Song
Last Summer

Constantinople Fable Song (Ballad)
Little Apple Tree Perched on the Brink

Macedonia Love Song
Little Bird in a Cage

Eastern Aegean Chios Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song
Little Ship, Where Are You Going

Pontus Acritic Song, Fable Song (Ballad)
Marandon (The Evil Mother-In-Law)

Cyclades Kythnos, Dryopida Couplets Love Song, Spring Song
May Is Come

Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
May Your Window Catch Fire

Cappadocia / Konya Sinasos
Mother, spring is here

Eastern Aegean Couplets Love Song
My Aching Breast

Asia Minor Love Song
My Curly Basil


Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Love Song
My Love Has Sent for Me

Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Loutra Couplets Wedding Song, For the Groom
My Royal-Born Pearl Pod

Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Couplets Love Song
My old torments

Peloponnese Wedding Song, For the Bride
O Bitter Orange in Full Leaf

Peloponnese Sea and Sailors Song
Off Tsirigo

Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Historical Song, National Legends and Laments
Old Nun A-Cooking

Cappadocia / Konya Sinasos Love Song
On my way to the mountains of Prussa

Asia Minor Smyrna Couplets Love Song
Poor sad love

Dodecanese Rhodes Couplets Immigration Song
Ribbon Interwined

Thrace Evros, Karoti Ritual Song, For Saint John of Kledon
Saint John



Central Greece Euboea, Kymi Couplets Sea and Sailors Song
Should You See a Vessel Pass

Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
So, I Decided I'd Become...

Pontus Fable Song (Ballad), Sea and Sailors Song
Somewhere in the Aegean Sea

Central Greece Attiki Love Song
Sweet Perfumed Lemon

Peloponnese Love Song
Sweet Slender Panagiota


Peloponnese Klephtic Song
The Arcadian Lass

Cyclades Paros Love Song, Wedding Song
The Boastful Partridge

Sporades Skiathos Sea and Sailors Song
The Great North Wind Blew

Pontus Love Song, Pastoral Song
The Maid Climbed up to the Summer Pasture



Dodecanese Leros Couplets Sea and Sailors Song
The Sea Has Made Me Old

Peloponnese Klephtic Song
The Snow Shines White on the Mountain Tops

Thrace Evros, Karoti Fable Song (Ballad)
The Son of the Armenian

Pontus Immigration Song, Wedding Song
The orphan maid is wed & Beloved stranger so far away

Thrace Lampoon, Carnival Song
Three Beardless Gents


Peloponnese Sea and Sailors Song
Three Slender Girls

Eastern Aegean Chios, Mesta Sea and Sailors Song
Three monks from Crete

Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Mandamados Couplets Love Song, Sad and Plaintive Song
To Whom Then Shall I Tell My Woe

Eastern Aegean Samos, Karlovasi Processional Tune | Couplets Wedding Song
Tonight Is the Wedding Feast

Thrace Evros, Ambelakia Charon's Song
Tricked by the Birds


Epirus Immigration Song
Turtledove

Thrace Historical, Recent
Twelve Little Evzones



Eastern Aegean Ikaria, Fournoi Couplets Love Song
What Ails You, Crow

Eastern Aegean Ikaria, Fournoi Couplets Love Song
What Did I Do to You, My Sun


Thrace Evros, Kyani Lampoon
When I Went down to the Butchers

Ionian islands Kefalonia Lampoon
Where To, Master Ant

Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Love Song
Who Ever Saw a Tree of Green

Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Couplets Wedding Song
Who Was the Matchmaker


Love Song
You Dare to Speak Like That

Propontis Marmara Couplets For the Bride, Wedding Song
You wear white


Eponymous Composer Modern Composition
Zonaradiko - Here Upon the Grassy Meadow
Albums

Domna Samiou At Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall

Domna Samiou Sings Songs of Nature and of Love

Epic Songs of Warriors and Heroes

Folk Fables in Song

I Tread the Earth Gently

Kaneloriza

Music from Greece: Domna Samiou

My Old Torments

Of Nature and of Love

Songs of Dame Sea

The Earth’s Three Bounties

The Great North Wind and Other Traditional Songs for Children

Wedding Songs
Concerts

29/10/1998 The Athens Concert Hall, Hall of the Friends of Music
The Known and the Unknown Domna

08 & 09/03/2005 The Athens Concert Hall, Hall of the Friends of Music
Songs of Asia Minor with Domna Samiou
