Today, we are focusing on a very popular dance rhythm and on songs that contain this rhythm, created and recorded recently. From Tasos Grous to Dimitris Psarras, from Vaggelis Maheras to Filippos Peristeris and from Vangelis Korakakis to Giorgos Kagialikos, several major composers have included zeibekiko...
Today, we are exploring the more recent recordings of a truly important composer – mostly covers of his earlier songs plus some modern creations of his. Special vocalists such as Aggeliki Toubanaki, Ioanna Forti, Costas Triantafyllidis, Panos Bousalis and Miltos Pashalidis become vehicles for the t...
Today, December 3, we are celebrating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities by listening to songs that contain references to human rights and human strength, respect and resilience. Our destination: Songs of empowerment!
Παγκόσμια Ημέρα Ατόμων με Αναπηρία
Σήμερα, 3 Δεκεμβρίου, γιορτάζουμε την Παγκό...
Today, we are remembering a pioneering singer-songwriter who was born on this day, December 2, 1944, and who sadly passed away in October. His critics claim that his work gradually dropped in terms of originality and sophistication, especially from the early 1980s onwards. We are here to prove the opposite!...
Today, December 1, we are celebrating the arrival of December with songs that contain references to this month. “I am writing to you on the 1st of December” and “will we see the December snow fall ever again?” and “the laughing children who can tell us about the glory of December”. Welcome aboard Gree...
Στις 30 Νοεμβρίου του 1949, γεννήθηκε ένας πολύπλευρος καλλιτέχνης γεμάτος δυναμισμό, αμεσότητα και αστείρευτη ενέργεια, ένας σίφουνας του τραγουδιού και της υποκριτικής, κι αυτόν θα θυμηθούμε στην αποψινή μας περιδιάβαση. Αντισυμβατικός όχι μόνο στη ζωή αλλά και στις ερμηνείες του, οι οποίες σημάδεψαν την ε...
Σήμερα, θυμόμαστε έναν χώρο που υπήρξε συνώνυμος με την ακμή του ελληνικού τραγουδιού και με ένα είδος ποιοτικής και άμεσης ψυχαγωγίας. Τιπούκειτος, Ρουλότα, Εσπερίδες, Απανεμιά… Μέρη γεμάτα με το «Νέο Κύμα» και με φωνές σαν της Καίτης Χωματά, της Πόπης Αστεριάδη, του Γιώργου Ζωγράφου, του Λάκη Παππά, του Β...
Today, we are celebrating the birthday of one of Greece’s greatest female voices. Maria Farantouri was born in Athens on the 28th of November 1947. Her international repertoire, which we are focusing on aboard today’s GME, is truly impressive and includes recordings of protest songs and songs by Bre...
Begleri: small skill toy consisting of one or more beads at either end of a short string. Originally derived from the komboloi, which serves the function of worry beads, flipped around to pass the time. Spyros Zagoraios, Rita Sakellariou, Dimitris Efstathiou, Doukissa, Eleni Vitali, Prodromos Tsaousakis...
Today, we are celebrating the legacy of an important folk song artist – a familiar voice that analysts place among the top male ones of Greek discography together with Kazantzidis, Bithikotsis and a few others. Panos Gavalas was born on this day, November 26, 1926. An emblematic figure, a quiet innovator, h...
The United Nations General Assembly has designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The premise of the day is to raise awareness around the world that women are subjected to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence; furthermore, one of the...
Today, we are shedding light on the concept of improvisation, by highlighting some interesting instances of improv vibes with various musical instruments. From the great bouzouki masters to the clarinet of Vassilis Saleas and from the innovators of tradition such as Ross Daly to the jazz endeavours...
Σήμερα, θυμόμαστε έναν πολύ σημαντικό στιχουργό που γεννήθηκε σαν σήμερα, στις 23 Νοεμβρίου 1949. Και αναπόφευκτα συναντάμε και μερικές από τις δημοφιλέστερες μελωδίες του ελληνικού τραγουδιού, που έτυχε να ντύσουν τα πυκνά του νοήματα: Θάνος Μικρούτσικος, Μπάμπης Στόκας, Μάριος Τόκας, Μίλτος Πασχαλίδη...
Σήμερα, στρεφόμαστε σε μια τεράστια πρόσφατη απώλεια για το ελληνικό τραγούδι, σε έναν κορυφαίο τραγουδοποιό και σε μια λιγότερο φωτισμένη πτυχή της δισκογραφίας του. Με Θανάση Παπακωνσταντίνου αλλά και με Βαγγέλη Γερμανό, με Ζαμπέτα και με Ξυδάκη και με Νίκο Κυπουργό. Σημείο συνάντησης για το αποψινό μας...
From Sotiria Bellou to Mario and from Tzeni Vanou to Giannis Kalantzis, countless folk vocalists have sang about komboloi, this tool of relaxation that has acquired multiple symbolisms in the context of Greek song. Komboloi is a symbol of friendship but also of abandonment when its holder plays with...
Today, we begin a 2-day mini tribute to a typically Greek object that has inspired numerous Greek songs. Worry beads (or “komboloi”) are a string of beads manipulated with one or two hands and, apart from entertaining and relaxing multiple generations of Greeks, they have inspired numerous folk son...
The cities of Greek song – foreign and desolate, lonely or for two, with love or with darkness. The cities of Polyxeni Karakoglou and Katerina Kyrmizi, of Victoria Tagouli and Rita Antonopoulou and Elli Paspala, of Kostas Thomaidis and Kostas Mantzios. “In this city, you left me alone / and I am a t...
Today, we will be stopping at the crossroads of two arts, music and cinema, through selections from Hadjidakis' soundtracks for films such as Blue, Topkapi, America America, Sweet movie and Faccia di spia. This GME broadcast was supposed to be part of our week-long tribute to the 100th anniversary of...
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