I love live recordings – they convey the atmosphere of the concert, the sense of togetherness, this fantastic interaction among the performer, the musicians and the audience. Today, we will be listening to the great voices of the 1980s and to moments from their concerts recorded live. From Vassilis L...
Singer-songwriters are a thing of the 1980s - a trend that later developed further and flourished in the following decade. But what is a singer-songwriter? Basically, they are artists who undertake all the stages of song creation, writing the lyrics and the melodies and performing the songs themselves,...
The Greek 1980s are pop, no doubt about that. Constantina, Alexia, Sofia Vossou and Andreas Mikroutsikos, Manto, Costas Haritodiplomenos and Michalis Rakintzis are just some of the names that fuel a light and uplifting genre. It is a genre that reflects the positivity, the innocence, the optimism and...
Today, we will be listening to a web of albums and artists that together formulated the new folk sound of the 1980s. Their common foundation is lyricist Manolis Rasoulis, a poet and a philosopher, a true intellectual who altered the course of Greek song. Rasoulis delivered a range of outstanding albums,...
Greek rock is cool and the eighties are cool too – in fact, the coolest of all decades. There are so many iconic looks and styles from the 80s that it's hard to know where to start. As for Greek rock, a vast spectrum of music geniuses, from Tzimis Panousis to Vlassis Bonatsos and from Nikolas Asimos t...
Giannis Bardanis spends four days alone and adrift on the Aegean when his boat suffers a mechanical failure.
Interviewee: Giannis BardanisInterview by: Efthymia PapagiannopoulouProducer: Stavros VlachosSound Designer: Dimitris PalaiogiannisSound Editor: Dimitris PapadakisTranslator: Steve LeverVoiceover:...
What if you could harness the power of vulnerability to ask for what you need or express your emotions without fear of rejection? Small actions — like sharing your feelings or celebrating your own achievements — may seem more daunting than it appears because of emotional vulnerability.Sometimes, vul...
The first half of today’s journey includes a select set of songs that depict the moon as a symbol of love – a guardian of romance and emotion. Haris Alexiou, Aleka Kanellidou and Giannis Parios are some of the voices that we shall be listening to in this context. The second half of today’s GME is de...
“Your words were a knife to the heart the moment you said goodbye to me. You didn't keep your word, you left me alone into the night and the cold. Your words are a knife to the heart, you keep coming back to my mind and it hurts. And I didn't sleep tonight, I remembered your eyes, come back I love y...
“Time flies, they say, and heals wounds, but the pain that you caused is still bothering me, separation is unbearable, it extinguishes and burns me. How to forget the moments when you were with me, the shadows of your love nestle in my soul, I know, it's only your fault that my life was ruined. Tonight y...
Rock is rhythm, electrified atmosphere and thrust. Rock is pure force, much like the force of the human endeavour to explore space and the moon. Rock is Vassilis Papakonstantinou, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Haris and Panos Katsimihas. Rock is Christos Thivaios and his former band, Usual Suspects: “Red b...
“I recorded the moon tonight, come let us hear songs of heaven and let sleep take us in the morning with a mind overwhelmed by love. And I photographed my voice for you, the paper was filled with colors and highlights. Lean into the headrest with me tonight, your lips are a red feast. Everything goes b...
A little boy finds himself at the wrong place, at the wrong time, with a hunting rifle in his hands. For the next years of his life, he will carry an unpaid "debt" to his family.
Interviewee: AnonymityInterview by: Mirsini GiannakopoulouProducer: Charis PagonidouSound Designer: Iasonas TheofanouSound...
Starting to tap into your center and connecting with the universe around you does something very important. It asks you to be still. Still is something that we seemingly never are. Between scrolling through Instagram, hanging out with friends/family, running our business, and perhaps cooking three meals...
Ifigenia Korologou is a performer and songwriter. She was born and raised in Piraeus and at the age of 18 she started contemporary singing lessons at the National Conservatory with Mary Esper and then with Martha Morelon. At the same time, she took lessons in music theory and classical guitar. In 2005,...
Special, versatile, one of the best songwriters of his generation. The rich talent of Orestis Ntantos has been reflected in the dozens of songs he has written since 2009, when he was introduced to us with the album "There are others like us". Since then, he has released more albums (“Last Sunrise” in ...
Dimitris Bakoulis is a talented and highly dynamic self-taught songwriter. Born and raised in the town of Aliveri, Evia, he started playing the guitar at the age of 9 and writing songs at the age of 15. He appeared in the discography in 2016 with "Other lives" and continued in 2021 with the "Devil of...
Singer, songwriter and music producer Marina Satti was born in Athens, Greece to a Sudanese father and Cretan mother. Marina graduated in classical piano, advanced music theory and classical singing, before receiving a scholarship from the internationally acclaimed Berklee College of Music. At Berklee,...
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