VA | Rough Guide To The Music Of Greece

This welcome addition to the Rough Guide catalog shines a light on a country whose music has largely been ignored internationally, and proves that, within the borders of Greece, the musical traditions are complex and marvelously rewarding. Thankfully it's not solely focused on modern-day artists, but frames them in the context of the past, with tracks by the legendary Kostas Nouros, The Nightingale of Smyrna, and George Koros, the man responsible for really introducing the fiddle into Greek music (his Ballos is an aural treat). Inevitably, there's plenty of rembetika and laiko, those particularly indigenous Greek forms, but this stretches beyond that, to encompass the jazz-funk of Mode Pagal, whose Pikrodafni is rather insipid and uninspired, as well as several of the superb female Greek singers who've broken through in recent decades, like Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Glykeria, and Savina Yannatou, perhaps the most adventurous of them all. And no overview of Greek music would be complete without Mikis Theodorakis, best known for his theme to Zorba the Greek. Memorable as that was, his real writing has extended in so many directions, and To Trizoni offers just a small glimpse of one of his facets. With excellent liner notes and an enhanced CD that gives you all the information on Greece from The Rough Guide to World Music, it leaves you fully prepared to delve more deeply into music that deserves wider discovery.

[Chris Nickson, All Music Guide]

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Αξιολόγη συλλογή, με απίστευτο Track Listing:

1. Topos - Michalis Nikoloudis
2. Kastrinos - Psarantonis
3. Pikrodafni - Mode Plagal
4. Simera Gamos Ginete - Dimitris Sakalis
5. Ballos - George Koros
6. Arabas Perna - Efi Sarri
7. Tha Spaso Koupes - Eleftheria Arvanitaki
8. Galata Manes - Kostas Nouros
9. O Prosfigas - Manolis Angelopoulos
10. Piga Se Magisses - Glykeria
11. Trelli Ki Adespoti - Nikos Papazoglou
12. Pare T' Ahnaria Mou - Stelios Kazantzidis
13. Zeibekiko - Dionisis Savopoulos
14. San Erthoun Mana I Fili Mou - Nikos Xylouris
15. Skaros - Petro-Loukas Chalkias
16. Tin Kardia M' Tin Klidomeni - Kristi Stassinopoulou
17. Leventikos - Banda Tis Florinas
18. Apo To Parko Sti Mirovolo - Himerini Kolimvites
19. To Trizoni - Mikis Theodorakis
20. Orea Kimomeni - Nikos Xidakis

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