Folk songs about Athens
This week is dedicated to Greece’s capital city, Athens, and to songs that narrate the adventures, the passions and the concerns of its residents. Today, we are exploring a repertoire of a more popular sound, performed by some of Greece’s most impressive folk voices, from Ger...
Nana Mouskouri & friends
Greece’s global music ambassador, the singer with over 200 albums in at least a dozen of languages, the one and only Nana Mouskouri visited Nisiotika in a 2011 album. “I sought for new inspiration by turning to roots and the music tradition of our country. Our traditional mus...
The Aegean of Mariza Koch
Singer-songwriter Mariza Koch was born in Athens but spent most of her childhood on the island of Santorini. As a result, she was influenced profoundly by the musician tradition of the Aegean. Naturally, a big part of her repertoire has unfolded around ‘Nisiotika’ songs and...
Eirini Konitopoulou-Legaki
Eirini Konitopoulou-Legaki, one of the greatest voices of the ‘Nisiotika’, was born on the island of Naxos, in a family of musicians. Both her father and her grandfather played the violin and were very familiar with the island music tradition. Together with her brother, Gio...
‘Aegean’ – The soundtrack
All aspects of the album "Aegean" by Vassilis Drogkaris and Manolis Pappos - the melodies, the lyrics, the arrangements, the performances - constitute a reference point for those who seek a return to the real Aegean music tradition, away from distortions and imitations. This ...
Anna Karampesini & Efi Sarri
Sisters Anna Karampesini and Efi Sarri were born in a family of musicians on the island of Kos. From a young age, they started studying and performing the traditional songs of the Dodecanese and, today, this duo is considered unsurpassed as far as this particular genre...
Climate change is here and this summer in particular more than ever. Wildfires, high temperatures and human intervention add to the list of reasons why our earth’s atmosphere is on the verge of a serious and accelerated change.
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Omar Faruk Tekbilek
Omer Faruk Tekbilek is a Turkish musician and composer, who plays a wide range of wind, string, percussion and electronic instruments. He has developed a style that builds on traditional Sufi music, but includes inspiration from ambient electronic musicians. Since 2010, Tekbilek ha...
Sokratis Sinopoulos & Derya Turkan
Socratis and Derya, friends and companions in their musical crossroads for years, carrying on the musical legacy of the kemence masters of Istanbul. Two prominent musicians and virtuosos of our time, inviting us to experience the evolution of kemence and its restored...
Dilek Koc
Dilek Koc was born in Antalya, Turkey but moved to Thessaloniki in 1999. Her personal discography includes the albums Karsi (2004) and Sevdalim Aman (2010), with songs equally loved on both sides of the Aegean. Today we are listening to songs from the wonderful Souvenir de Salonique (2015)...
Okay Temiz
Okay Temiz is a Turkish fusion jazz percussionist and drummer. He was influenced by his mother, who was classically trained in music, and studied at the Ankara Conservatory and Tophane Art Institute before settling in Sweden. He is one of Turkey’s most famous jazz musicians, maintaining a...
Christos Tsiamoulis meets Halil Karaduman
Late Turkish kanun virtuoso Halil Karaduman meets Greek oud player Christos Tsiamoulis in an outstanding recording that serves as the best introduction to this week’s theme: the love of the Greek audience for Turkish musicians. This Greek-Turkish rapprochement i...
Linda Carol Trotter grew up in San Antonio, Texas, adopted by loving American parents. She had always known she was adopted from Greece; she was told she was born premature, and that her birth mother had died during delivery. In 2017, her quest to find more about her roots led her to a remote village...
From Koufonisi to Asia Minor
Today we focus on two distinct aspects of Nikos Oikonomidis’ contribution: his collaboration with singer Giorgoula from the island of Koufonisi, and his study of the linkages between the islands of Naxos, Paros and Kythnos and the musical heritage of Asia Minor. The latter e...
One night, the evening of the festival of Saint Paraskevi, Giannis Badanis is on a beach. Through the wind and the darkness, he hears voices from the sea, calling for help.
Interviewee: Giannis BardanisInterview by: Efthymia PapagiannopoulouProducer: Stavros VlachosSound Designer: Nikolas...
Passage to Kimolos
A voyage across the music tradition of the island of Kimolos, added to the long and successful “Passages” series of albums, curated by Nikos Oikonomidis. Here comes a tribute to an extremely interesting musical heritage that combines elements of Asia Minor and island tradition and...
Passage to Amorgos
This 2001 album is the first attempt to record the local repertoire of the island of Amorgos – a work that reveals a rich and highly expressive material. Nikos Oikonomidis goes beyond his role as a musician, studying thoroughly the music body of the island and delving into the t...
Passage to Kythira
A very special album for a very special island that lies opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. Here, Nikos Oikonomidis mobilises important female singers like Mariza Koch and Katerina Papadopoulou, in a 1991 recording that registers the rich music heritage...
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