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Τα μελιτζανιά

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Information

  • Region: Cyclades
  • Area: Kythnos
  • Type: Instrumental
  • Rhythm: 2 beats
  • Dance style: Hasapikos (fast)
  • Duration: 01:36

Collaborators

  • Violin: Yiorgos Marinakis
  • Constantinopolitan lute: Socrates Sinopoulos
  • Santur: Konstantia Kapetanopoulou
  • Lute: Kostas Philippidis

Albums

  • Easter Songs
  • Music from Greece: Domna Samiou

Notes

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)

Recording information

Studio recording, 1997.

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