Τα μελιτζανιά

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A “street” tune in a 2/4 rhythm. It is usually accompanied by a song sung by a group which starts with the couplet “Your dress in the colour of an aubergine (melitzaniá), don’t you wear it again”... hence the name of the piece.

Miranda Terzopoulou (2018)

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Studio recording, 1997.

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