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Καρσιλαμάς

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Information

  • Region: Asia Minor
  • Type: Instrumental
  • Rhythm: 9 beats
  • Dance style: Karsilamas
  • Duration: 02:59

Collaborators

  • Violin: Yiorgos Marinakis
  • Kanun: Panos Dimitrakopoulos
  • Constantinopolitan lute: Socrates Sinopoulos
  • Lute: Kostas Philippidis
  • Goblet drum: Andreas Pappas
  • Zil bells: Andreas Pappas

Albums

  • Music from Greece: Domna Samiou
  • Easter Songs

Notes

The karsilamás is danced face to face. Since it is a traditional, primarily wedding dance, wide-ranging variations may be found in many parts of Greece, the rhythm is always 9/8, which is divided into 3+2+2+2 for slow, “solid” performances, and 2+2+2+3 for a quicker, lighter feel. The slow karsilamás has close affinities with the zeibékiko and recent years have seen both dances in an urban environment adapted to the instruments, songs and audience of rebétika and the Greek popular music.

The melody is from the Marmarinós karsilamás that Domna Samiou recorded, sung by a women’s choir in 1982, in Neos Marmaras, Halkidiki. That version is included in LP Songs of Asia Minor 1.

 Miranda Terzopoulou (2018)

Recording information

Studio recording, 1997.

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