Το Aikido δεν είναι μόνο τεχνική. Έχει να κάνει με την ισορροπία, την επίγνωση και τη σοφή χρήση της ενέργειας. Μας διδάσκει ότι η δύναμη δεν είναι πάντα η απάντηση - μερικές φορές, ο καλύτερος τρόπος για να προχωρήσουμε είναι να πάμε σε εναρμόνιση με την πρόκληση και όχι ενάντια σε αυτήν.
Ο Morihei Ues...
Αγαπάμε την Ελλάδα για τα εκπληκτικά τοπία, τις μαγευτικές ακτές της και την πλούσια βιοποικιλότητά της. Αλλά έρχεται αντιμέτωπη και με μία σκληρή αλήθεια: η άγρια πανίδα της απειλείται. Βλέπουμε ακραία καιρικά φαινόμενα όπως ποτέ άλλοτε, καύσωνες που μετατρέπουν τα δάση σε σπιρτόκουτα, πλημμύρες που ξεπλένουν...
Ancient Greek music isn’t lost- it’s been rediscovered, hiding in ancient texts and mathematical codes.The Greeks didn’t just listen to music-they believed it could heal, educate, and even shape society. And thanks to modern research, we can now hear the echoes of a world more than 2,000 years old.O...
Tyto alba, “the barn owl”, soar silently through the night, their ghostly white feathers glowing in the moonlight. Majestic nocturnal hunters or ghostly omens of doom? The barn owl is one of nature’s most efficient pest controllers-is not just saving crops but also bridging political divides. What starte...
Dionysis Tsaknis’ message of resistance: “I remain alone in my present in order to rescue whatever can be rescued / you will not have me as an accomplice in murder, even if I end up facing the consequences of the law”. Katsimiha brothers’ urban mythology: “We are living our little tales in the city ...
Today, we are continuing our tribute to the live recordings of Greek rock, appreciating the contribution of mega-bands such as Trypes, Xylina Spathia, Endeleheia and Lefki Symphonia, as well as core figures such as Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Dimitris Poulikakos and Giorgos Dimitriadis. This is a genre rich...
This week, here at GME, we are shedding light on the concept of rock and its evolution globally while listening to some of the greatest live recordings of Greek rock. No matter whether it comes from concerts in large venues attended by thousands of fans or from appearances in small basements with just...
What is our ‘doctrine' and unifying principle here at GME? Well, probably the assertion that Greek music and song are multi-dimensional, fascinating, with many hidden treasures that are yet to be discovered. This music of course includes bouzouki and syrtaki and other popular sounds, but it is also m...
The week that starts today here at GME celebrates the dynamism and energy of Greek rock in its most direct format, which is of course the live recording. Our destination - The rock lives of our lives – includes masterpieces by cool singer-songwriters such as Vassilis Kazoulis and Lakis Papadopoulos, m...
Athens is a city of reinvention. From the age of Pericles to the Byzantine Empire, its iconic temples and marketplaces have undergone transformations that reflect the ever-changing cultural and spiritual identity of its people.
This episode of "Infinitely Curious", the English language program or...
Ioannis Constantinidis, also known by the pen name Kostas Giannidis, was a Greek composer, pianist and conductor. Constantinidis studied in Berlin and settled in Athens where he worked as a conductor and composer of several forms of music, including symphonic, chamber music, operettas, music for films,...
Michalis Sougioul created the post-war genre of "archontorembetiko". This is a type of song that combined folk-style lyrics and music with Western-style orchestral influences. As researcher and radio producer Giorgos Tsampras states, ‘archontorembetiko is a creation of leading composers of the light s...
This week here at GME focuses on a genre of Greek song that has unjustifiably been left out of our broadcasts up to now: light or ‘elafro’ song. It is a current that flourished from the 1930s onwards and influenced, with its sensitivity and melodic quality, a variety of other styles. Today, we will be ...
The backbone of our track list today is a fantastic album composed by Panos Tzavellas titled Songs of Lament and Resurrection. Needless to say, these songs – plus a selection of other masterpieces from her long career - are performed by the golden voice of Katy Gray, who passed away two days ago at t...
Kaiti Grey, who passed away yesterday at the age of 100, was one of the greatest Greek singers – a real myth of the folk song of the 1950s and 1960s. Born on the island of Samos, she was adopted by a family in Piraeus and moved there. Initially, she worked as an actress and a performer, before recording h...
Rebetiki Kompania, Opisthodromiki Kompania, Athinaiki Kompania – these are the three colossal bands that reshaped the sound of rebetiko in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Nowadays, these groups of friends are long gone but, thankfully, new schemes of talented musicians have replaced them with the s...
Today, we will be honouring the classical rebetiko ladies that paved the way for the establishment and expansion of the world of rebetiko under some very harsh conditions. Our tribute concerns three majestic voices: Stella Haskil, Marika Ninou and Sotiria Bellou. They represented the essence of rebetiko...
We return to rebetiko regularly here at GME because we believe that it is a genre of immense beauty and historical significance. Today, we will be highlighting the next generation of rebetiko ladies that have been at the forefront of rebetiko’s dissemination among a younger audience. Our destination: R...
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