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Few of us are in the process of exploring our adulthood through our childhood. For those of us who do it, it is always through the children, and that is only when the children ask us to play with them… and then we try to retrieve our childhood memories to run with them. And too often we are e...

Elytis meets Dimitris Lagios and Michalis Tranoudakis Odysseas Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1979 for “his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and c...

Tasos Leivaditis Tasos Leivaditis is a superb poet whose (largely unacknowledged) genius inspired a series of songs and albums. We will be primarily exploring the setting of his poetry to music by composer George Tsagaris, an endeavour that reveals the tremendous political and humanistic thrust...

Giannis Poulopoulos sings immigration songs The songs of today’s GME are mostly taken from the album “The songs of foreign lands”, which was released in 1976. This unjustifiably forgotten collection was composed by Giorgos Katsaros, written by Dimitris Iatropoulos and performed by Giannis Poulopoulos. Ο Γιάννης Πουλόπουλος στα «Τραγούδια της Ξενιτιάς» Μια σημαντική δουλειά από το μακρινό 1976, με τη βελούδινη φωνή του Πουλόπουλου, τους εμπνευσμένους στίχους του Ιατρόπουλου και τις στιβαρές μελωδίες του Κατσαρού, που δεν ακούστηκε σχεδόν καθόλου. Πάντως, με το συνεχιζόμενο δράμα της προσφυγιάς και της μετανάστευσης να ξεδιπλώνεται σήμερα, διατηρεί όλη τα διαχρονικότητά της.

Dimitris Papadimitriou’s Cavafy With his album “An Alexandrian on an Alexandrian”, Dimitris Papadimitriou delivered a colossal work of 18 songs and six instrumentals inspired by the poetry of Constantine P. Cavafy. The encounter of Papadimitriou with Cavafy is hardly surprising, since both were ...

Constantine P. Cavafy x 3 According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, Cavafy is “one of the most important figures not only in Greek poetry but in Western poetry as well”. Naturally, he has been a favourite among Greek composers too, who have turned to his poetry multiple times in search of inspiration. Tod...

‘IKIGAI’ : IKI (LIFE) GAI (WORTH) This Japanese word literally means “the happiness of being constantly occupied or the reason for being, which can help us to determine what it is that we want to wake up for in the morning. IKIGAI is centered around a person’s true purpose in life...

Ikaria During the summer, all Ikarian villages host feasts to mark various religious and non-religious holidays. Traditional dishes, Ikarian wine, live music and lots of fun, with locals and tourists alike dancing the traditional Ikariotikos tune, singing along and partying till the early hours! T...

The sun-kissed instrumentals of Giannis Spanos In our quest for the eternal Greek summer, we turn to Giannis Spanos, this beloved composer who coloured our memories with his special melodies. In particular, we turn to a relatively unknown collection of his instrumentals titled “Deep blue sea”, nex...

Summertime songs Listening to Greek summertime songs at the start of October is our very own way of fighting the autumn …blues and the nostalgia for the Greek summer. From Locomondo to Eleni Dimou and from Dimitra Galani to Katsimiha brothers, we remind ourselves of the images, scents and colours o...

Οι «Κυκλάδες» του Βασίλη Δημητρίου “Vassilis Dimitriou is well aware of the course and schools of Greek singing and thus he can express his melodic quests in different ways, using the form of the anonymous traditional song or the ‘roads’ of rebetiko or the style of Hatzidakis. The Greek trad...

Giannis Poulopoulos sings immigration songs The songs of today’s GME are mostly taken from the album “The songs of foreign lands”, which was released in 1976. This unjustifiably forgotten collection was composed by Giorgos Katsaros, written by Dimitris Iatropoulos and performed by Giannis Poulopoulos. Ο Γιάννης Πουλόπουλος στα «Τραγούδια της Ξενιτιάς» Μια σημαντική δουλειά από το μακρινό 1976, με τη βελούδινη φωνή του Πουλόπουλου, τους εμπνευσμένους στίχους του Ιατρόπουλου και τις στιβαρές μελωδίες του Κατσαρού, που δεν ακούστηκε σχεδόν καθόλου. Πάντως, με το συνεχιζόμενο δράμα της προσφυγιάς και της μετανάστευσης να ξεδιπλώνεται σήμερα, διατηρεί όλη τα διαχρονικότητά της.

Aware or not, we all one way or another carry our own hidden traumas… Listen to this episode of the english-language show Infinitely Curious with Katerina Batzaki and learn from EMDR psychotherapist Vasiliki Sfyri and EMDR founder Francine Shapiro how EMDR helps patients overcome traumas such as war...

Giannis Poulopoulos sings immigration songs The songs of today’s GME are mostly taken from the album “The songs of foreign lands”, which was released in 1976. This unjustifiably forgotten collection was composed by Giorgos Katsaros, written by Dimitris Iatropoulos and performed by Giannis Poulopoulos. Ο Γιάννης Πουλόπουλος στα «Τραγούδια της Ξενιτιάς» Μια σημαντική δουλειά από το μακρινό 1976, με τη βελούδινη φωνή του Πουλόπουλου, τους εμπνευσμένους στίχους του Ιατρόπουλου και τις στιβαρές μελωδίες του Κατσαρού, που δεν ακούστηκε σχεδόν καθόλου. Πάντως, με το συνεχιζόμενο δράμα της προσφυγιάς και της μετανάστευσης να ξεδιπλώνεται σήμερα, διατηρεί όλη τα διαχρονικότητά της.

Leros “Songs of Leros”: A unique panorama of the music of Leros island curated by leading ethnomusicologists Markos Dragoumis and Thanasis Moraitis. This is essentially the first organised attempt to introduce the special colours of the island’s music tradition to a broader audience, through recor...