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...
Passage to Chios
The week that starts today is dedicated to songs and music from the islands, curated by the master of “nisiotika”, violin soloist Nikos Oikonomidis. Our first stop: the island of Chios and the magnificent music of its villages, from Volissos to Pyrgi and Mesta. Singer Kyriaki Spanou, Oik...
On January 9, 1969, a newlywed Greek couple is flying from New York to the Bahamas when a young man at gunpoint diverts the plane to Cuba. The passengers end up in the Havana of the embargo, just a decade after the Cuban Revolution…
Interviewee: Morela Koufaki-AvdiInterview by: Efrosyni K...
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.
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Foreign lands in rembetiko songs
This is a rare collection of rebetiko songs created from the 1930s and the mid-1950s, which talk about the harsh realities of immigration
Ρεμπέτικα της ξενιτιάς
«Δε φοβούμαι βρε μαγκίτη και θα φύγω απ' την Αθήνα / στην Αμερική θα πάω πώς να σου το ειπώ / μέσα στον ουρανο...
Haris Alexiou’s “Immigration Songs”
The album “Immigration Songs” is unique in many respects: it contains performances by Greece’s top art-folk singer, Haris Alexiou; the songs had been recorded by 1987 but the album was eventually released in 2020; and there are not many collections with such a spec...
‘Immigrants’ by Giannis Markopoulos
The 1974 album “Immigrants”, composed by Giannis Markopoulos and written by George Skourtis, defined an entire era of Greek song, when it was replete with social and political messages. Markopoulos described the album as “A cycle of songs, a bitter tribute by the co...
Domna Samiou’ “Far away from home” songs
The week that starts today is dedicated to immigration and to the memory of all those immigrants and refugees who have died trying to cross the Mediterranean, including all those hundreds who perished at the Pylos migrant boat disaster on June 14, 2023. We st...
In 2009 Anna Ellis visited Zitsa, a small village in western Greece, while couchsurfing with her sister. There she met their host, Kostas, the village’s baker. She spent only 24 hours there, but it changed her life forever.
Interviewee: Anna EllisInterview by: Giannis Koutroudis, Sofia P...
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