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Banda Entopica is a traditional music street band based in Thessaloniki, fusing clarinet, saxophone, accordion and davul in a synthesis of traditional and modern Balkan music. Influenced by a wide array of sounds from Macedonia, Thrace, Epirus and the entire Balkan Peninsula

Xefrago Ambeli band was formed in 2011 and is made up of friends and family members. Antigone Stappa plays the guitar, Spyros Lembesis plays the violin, Grigoris Lembesis plays the lute and Emmanouil Paliakis plays percussion and brass instruments. 

Gidiki band was created in Thessaloniki in 2014. At that time Tasos Kofodimos, Filippos Fasoulas, Konstantinos Lazos and Kostantis Papakonstantinou started experimenting by arranging traditional pieces.

Mantzounia band was formed in Athens but its members come from different parts of Greece (Macedonia, Cyclades, Peloponnese). All of the band members have a particular taste for the sounds of Epirus

Thrax Punks is a music group from the region of Thrace, which is experimenting and integrating various traditional music elements to its sound.

Whenever one listens to pop summer songs from the past, they feel well and thus, today, we will be talking about wellness and its connection with vacations in Greece. Indeed, the country has a great tradition in health and wellbeing practices, and an equally established tradition in quality pop – e...

Summer is a time of vacations, relaxation and escape from everyday life. Naturally, for precisely these reasons, it has passed in the heart of the Greek song - in many ballads or light songs that exude coolness and nostalgia, containing references to this particular season. Summer can also be found...

Greece offers an unforgettable cultural experience. Across Greece, there are monuments, museums, art galleries, festivals and traditional feasts you can visit and experience during your holidays. And what better way to accompany these cultural experiences with a sip of art song, the famous ‘entechno’ gen...

The New Wave was a genre that developed around the mid-1960s and was an attempt to renew the light song. The term is a translation of the Nouvelle Vague film movement that prevailed in France in the 1950s and was transferred to Greek music by composer Yiannis Spanos. This term was used as an advertising...

The week that starts here at GME is dedicated to songs about the summer and today we are celebrating its arrival with hits from the very mainstream of Greek pop. We are listening to contemporary mega hits by stars like Eleni Foureira, Tamta, Melisses and Stelios Rokkos, as well as to sweet, light ballads...

The 2022 album of Foivos Delivorias, "Anime", came to complete and close an informal trilogy. Three albums that are milestones in the development of his creative path, but at the same time also statements of his worldview which complement each other. In 2010 Foivos Delivorias, having already released...

In May 2009, his first album as The Boy, “Please Make Me Dance”, released from Inner Ear Records, receives great reviews. He has also participated as a singer and a pianist in Felizol, Lolek and The Callas albums. At the same time, he began his collaboration with the band “Felizol and The Boy” and the...

Nalyssa Green is a singer, songwriter, thereminist from Athens, Greece. Her debut album, lo-fi, DIY “Barock” was released in 2010 followed by the 2012 folk-rock “The Seed” (Inner Ear). She is known for her gentle and ethereal voice, her romantic melodies, her dramatic outbursts and her passionate perform...

Kore. Ydro. were formed in Corfu during the autumn of 1993 by 15-year-old schoolmates Pantelis Dimitriadis, Giorgos Arvanitakis and Spiros Katagis. Konstantinos Amygdalos joined in 1997 and Spiros Katagis departed in 2000. Pianist/multi-instrumentalist Alexandros Makris joined in 2001, creating Kore....

Tango with Lions is the stage name of Berlin-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kat Papachristou. She has released four albums via Inner Ear Records. Her debut album Verba Time, released in 2010, received enthusiastic reviews. Her second album A Long Walk was released in 2013, followed...

At the end of the 1970s, four students found themselves studying in Patras (Vangelis Delikouras, Argyris Papageorgiou, Lambros Karelas and Christos Papadopoulos). Together with Panagiotis Manolakos, who was already a professional musician, they formed one of the most successful bouzouki bands in history:...

The light-folk song is the most underrated genre of Greek song that has appeared in the last half a century. This is unfair, because the best light-folk songs are as important as the best folk, "art" or pop of the time. Many of the light-folk songs constitute underrated masterpieces or are, in any case,...

From Dimitris Kontolazos and Katerina Stanisi to Lefteris Pantazis and Antzela Dimitriou, from Tolis Voskopoulos to Pashalis Terzis and Vassilis Karras, there is a musical current that cannot be considered proper folk, but also cannot be ignored. It is something lighter than folk, something perhaps...