From Swing Shoes to Gadjo Dilo and from Mariza Rizou to The Swingin’ Cats, a fascinating story of producing new sounds through old songs is unfolding before our eyes: The story of swing covers of Greek classics. Lack of inspiration? Recycling of existing hits? Or a sincere turn to our musical past w...
Covers are everywhere in today’s Greek recording landscape, as we are going through a period where the return to the past counterbalances the relative absence of contemporary, commercially relevant creation. And among these covers, swing is the dominant style, bringing fresh sounds and powerful rhythms w...
Here comes the second part of GME’s tribute to swing covers of Greek songs. Today, we are listening to some of the finest light songs and ballads originally performed by important voices such as Dimitris Horn, Marinella, Arleta and Margarita Zorbala. Their swing-inspired renditions belong to inventive a...
The week that starts today, here at GME, is dedicated to swing covers of Greek originals – uplifting songs that carry the classics of the past into our modern era and introduce it to a younger audience. The format of all GME broadcasts this week will be the following: one song in its original recording, f...
Tania Tsanaklidou’s Hamburg; Giannis Koutras’ Liverpool and Barcelona; Maria Farantouri’s Gibraltar; Giannis Kotsiras’ Alexandria; Vassilis Papakonstantinou’s Puerto Rico; Mario Frangoulis’ Bosporus; and Nena Venetsanou’s Hanoi. Welcome to the ports of the world, as celebrated by Greek song. Welcome...
Today, we are singing the harbours of rock – wild harbours, rough, unwelcoming, with pirates and fires and praying birds. But they are also harbours of nostalgia and memory, marked by significant departures and much-desired arrivals. Today’s ports belong to Greek rock ballads and are performed by fam...
Today, we will be enjoying the presence of ports in Greek popular songs – a beautiful combination of musical form and poetic content performed by the likes of Litsa Giagkousi, Sofia Papazoglou,Giota Nega, Polys Kermanidis and Aspasia Stratigou. In between the tracks, we are sharing fragments from t...
The week that starts today, here at GME, is dedicated to ports – ports of Greece and of Hellenism, ports of the world, sites of history and voyages of utmost social and economic significance. Our songs about harbours, today, fall into the category of art – “entehno”, a style characterised by soph...
Today, here at GME, is dedicated to ports – ports of Greece and of Hellenism, ports of the world, sites of history and voyages of utmost social and economic significance. Our songs about harbours, today, fall into the category of art – “entehno”, a style characterised by sophisticated arrangements, elabora...
The week that ends today, here at GME, was dedicated to New Wave – Neo Kyma, a soft, low-pitch style that prevailed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Today, we will be remembering the early work of Notis Mavroudis, a renowned composer who started from Neo Kyma before lending his talent to art song. A...
Their names became synonyms for sensitivity. Their styles found imitators and influenced many of their contemporaries. The songs that they performed flooded the boites, the small “boxes” of live music that represented an alternative, meaningful kind of entertainment. Lakis Pappas, Popi Asteriadi, and...
This week, here at GME, is dedicated to New Wave – Neo Kyma, a genre filled with tenderness and innocence, reminiscent of the Greek summer and its tales of love and emotion. Today, we will be celebrating the massive legacy of a composer who is widely regarded as the founding father of New Wave: melodist G...
Today’s GME focuses on probably the two most characteristic voices of the New Wave, Giorgos Zografos and Keti Homata. Both marked the evolution of this style with their unique timbres and sensitivity. And, of course, it is no coincidence that the greatest creators of Neo Kyma, such as Linos Kokkotos, G...
The week that starts today, here at GME, is dedicated to New Wave (Neo Kyma). This is a genre replete with softness and emotion, which marked the Greek song of the mid-1960s and the early 1970s, and disappeared as abruptly as it emerged. Today, we will be exploring the ingenuity of a composer who remained...
In today’s GME, we will be enjoying some of Greece’s greatest female voices singing timeless masterpieces along the dance rhythm of hasapiko. From Eleni Roda to Melina Tanagri, from Rita Sakellariou to Eleni Tsaligopoulou, and from Dimitra Galani to Maria Dimitriadi, we are confronted with the most uni...
Hasapiko, syrtaki, hasaposerviko – three dance rhythms that are different but all belong to the same family. Three rich rhythmic universes in which some of the nicest Greek songs are contained. Today, here at GME, we will be listening to samples from all three dance styles, highlighting their proximity a...
Terzis, Dalaras, Mitropanos, Voskopoulos, Poulopoulos, Kalantzis, Bithikotsis, Kalogiannis, Dionysiou, Korakakis, The Kids from Patra, Makedonas, Theoharidis. Are you sure you can handle all of these amazing folk voices in just a single radio broadcast? I hope so, because these are precisely some of...
Today’s GME is filled with the beautiful “penies” of bouzouki playing hasapiko. This is the dance rhythm of some of the greatest and most memorable tunes, a robust rhythmic foundation of immense beauty. Our track list includes creations of masters of Greek composition such as Giorgos Mitsakis, Giann...
PAGE 6FROM 47