Kougioumtzis I: Live from Thessaloniki
The entire week is dedicated to Stavros Kougioumtzis who died on March 12, 2005; naturally, March is interlinked with his memory and his highly sensitive songs. Today, we will be listening to a rare recording of a 2003 concert that took place at the...
Who was the legendary fairy of Amorgos, who was magically caught and then married to the pirate, Yiorgos Kaoutsos? In one of the traditional legends of this Cycladic island, her great-grandson tells us her story
Interviewee: Antonis RoussosField Reporter: Efthymia PapagiannopoulouProducer: Maya FilippopoulouSound...
I have a love affair with trains. I chose my apartment in the Athens neighbourhood of Rouf because I can watch the trains pass by every day from my window. A good morning with Angeliki, the person in charge who raises and lowers the train barrier so that cars can pass, is enough to make my day. As a...
Songs of memory
“You said what you had to say. Attention! When memory returns, it takes revenge…”. Songs of memory fulfilling the only duty of those left behind: to remember!
Songs of loss & departure
Songs about departing, about leaving and losing - because songs are the best way to express and heal one’s pain. Once again, a broadcast dedicated to the memory of the victims of the train crash at Tempi
Songs of sorrow
Songs reflecting the widespread feeling of sorrow generated collectively by the railway tragedy at Tempi, the unbearable loss of life, and the permanent ineffectiveness of the Greek state and government.
Laments
The entire week is dedicated to the memory of those who died at the train crash of February 28, an event that shocked (and enraged) the entire Greek society. The laments are a unique expression of grief provided to us through tradition but also present in contemporary music produ...
Panagiotis Tzanavaris is the only teacher of "Whistling," an ancient language spoken (or rather, whistled) in the village of Antia in Euboea. He has dedicated his life to trying to save the language from extinction.
Interviewee: Panagiotis TzanavarisField Reporter: Stavros VlachosProducer: Stavros...
There are times when freedom is expressed through art which has no place or space. It is easily accessible and can unfold in front of us in the metro, in an alley, in the snow or on the slopes of a mountain or a beach around a fire. For performing artists this is called freedom. Two young talented...
Giorgos Xintaris
An ingenious rembetiko singer and bouzouki soloist from the island of Skopelos, he played a key role in the rebirth of rempetiko music in the 1980s through his studio recordings, live concerts and TV appearances.
Athinaiki Kompania
This band became a key pillar of the revival of rempetiko music during the first half of the 1980s, thanks to the talent of Dimitris Hatzidiakos and the band’s participation at the “To Minore tis Avgis” TV series.
In 1971, a rich uncle brings a television to the home of Manolis Bardanis. The first television in the village of Apeiranthos in Naxos, it attracts all the neighbors who gather to see this strange acquisition.
Interviewee: Manolis Bardanis
Field Reporter: Efthymia Papagiannopoulou
Producer:...
Valerie Kontakos’ new documentary, “Queen of the Deuce,” celebrates the wild life of Chelly Wilson, a colorful and fiery character who thrived in the midst of a heavily dominated milieu, run a porn empire and hosted a rotating cast of guests and supplicants at her apartment above one of her theaters, the E...
Gadjo Dilo
Here comes the country’s most famous swing band, created with the sole purpose of reanimating the manouche gypsy jazz musical tradition.
Penny Baltatzi & The Swinging CatsCelebrating the jazz-swing hits of singer Penny Baltatzi and The Swinging Cats band - both their joint creations and their separate repertoire. Without a doubt, one finds here some of the best moments of contemporary Greek swing production.Πέννυ Μπαλτατζή & The Swi...
Les Au Revoir
A very original band, combining latin elements with jazz influences and a swing ‘nucleus’. Alexandra Bounatsa, Costas Karamitsos and Leonidas Anagnostou put forward a contemporary sound proposal characterized by respect for the past hits and a joyful mood.
Les Au Revoir
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Greek swing IIPart two of our panorama of Greek swing recordings, with hits by, among others, The Speakeasies Swing Band, Ekmek and Semeli. Ελληνικό σουίνγκ ΙΙ Δεύτερο μέρος του πανοράματος του ελληνικού σουίνγκ, με επιτυχίες από τους The Speakeasies Swing Band, Εκμέκ και Σεμέλη, μεταξύ άλλων.
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Greek swing IAn exploration of Greek swing covers and originals, from Mariza Riou to Doros Dimosthenous and from Little Kiss to Mary Doutsi & The Swingers.Ελληνικό σουίνγκ ΙΜια περιδιάβαση σε ελληνικές σουίνγκ διασκευές και όχι μόνο, από τη Μαρίζα Ρίζου στον Δώρο Δημοσθένους κι από τους Little Kiss ...
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