Piraeus has been sung by the greatest singers, from Flery Ntantonaki to Nana Mouskouri and from Lakis Halkias to Giannis Kalantzis. It has been hailed by the greatest composers, from Manos Hadjidakis to Giannis Markopoulos and Christos Nikolopoulos. Today’s track list is full of Piraeus-related classics, e...
Listen to Jennifer Wallace, Ben Fanning and Dr Marco de Nardin on how can one fight post vacation blues by doing one simple thing we love per day.Find out from holistic coach Natalia Ambrosia how we can change our mind set to feel as if we’re on holiday 365 days a year without having to go somewhere.Learn fr...
Haris Alexiou, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Dimitra Galani – three legends of Greek music that marked its evolution with their expressive voices. Their massive careers also include songs or even entire albums with covers of rebetiko songs and, today, we will be listening to a sample of their contribution t...
This week here at GME is dedicated to some notable attempts to rejuvenate the massive heritage of rebetiko song and today we will celebrating the contribution of three great music artists. Popular songwriter Giorgos Mouflouzelis, was born in 1912 in Mytilini, in a poor family. His father forced him...
Voula Savvidi, a living legend of Greek song and a precious friend of mine, appeared in the discography in 1971 alongside composer Christos Leontis, performing two songs on the album "5 to 12". In 1974, her voice met Manos Hadjidaki's look at rebetiko with the album "Ta Perix". Hadjidakis himself based...
Notis Mavroudis and Panagiotis Margaris wrote a major chapter of the history of classical guitar recordings in Greece with the Café del’ Art album series. In 2005, they released Café del’ Art 5, dedicated to the melodies of rebetiko masters Vasilis Tsitsanis and Markos Vamvakaris. The album features guest...
The bouzouki ensemble "Dromos" appeared in the discography in 2004, with an album of the same name, with covers of old folk songs and instrumentals. This was followed, in 2007, by the second album of "Dromos", entitled "A song for Kokkinia", with the live recording of the band's concert at the Municipal...
Singer-songwriter Dimitris Verionis has the island of Naxos as a key source of inspiration. Naxos, in fact, forms the background of the love story described in the album "Photographs from Naxos". However, it is not just a background, he explains. I have an experiential relationship with the
island,...
His website reads: Monsieur Minimal is a musician and producer from Greece. His musical style could come from any era and it is indeed hard to guess when his albums were released. Monsieur Minimal’s dreamy slices of the 60s and 70s nostalgia come across like Serge Gainsbourg jamming with Demis Roussos. O...
Renowned music critic Liana Malandrenioti writes the following in a review of Maridakis’ third album: “Leonidas Maridakis practices the painful personal test of competing in the modern Greek musical arena of demanding composition. Given the mastered consistency of his musical style, this is per...
The main problem that an observer faces when assessing today’s music landscape in Greece is the massive creative package of the past. It is very easy to fall into the trap of regarding contemporary music production as secondary when compared with the glory of the past. However, we should keep in mind t...
Born in London, UK to Greek parents, Leon of Athens learned to play the piano and classical guitar from an early age and soon went on to form his first band – Mimosa’s Dream. He has been reviewed by such major international press outlets as the Guardian, the New York Times, the BBC, Q Magazine, and...
Ultra-talented Katerina Polemi was born in London and studied music at Berklee College of Music in the USA. In 2011 she recorded her first album "Spread the Music not the Name" receiving excellent reviews and since then she has been performing at concerts in Greece, Brazil and America. She has sung...
This week here at GME is dedicated to the girls of Greek song, all these young music artists who have been leaving an important footprint on our contemporary music landscape. Today, we will be tasting the coexistence of dynamism and sensitivity in two gifted singers-songwriters: Pavlina Voulgaraki...
Nefeli Fasouli was born and raised in Athens. At the age of 6, she began studying violin and music theory, while in 2013 she enrolled at the Athens Law School, from where she graduated in 2018. In
parallel, she attended classes in jazz singing, vocal improvisation and theory, and completed a...
Myrto Vasileiou was born in Athens, in February 1995. “I don't remember myself not being concerned with music in one way or another. To begin with, music was inside our home every day. By the time I was five I knew how to record my own tapes on a big stereo we had in the living room”. Her first per...
This week here at GME is all about girl power in Greek music - female music artists who have been fuelling contemporary Greek song with their talent and inspiration. Some of them do so using Greek language; others turn to English to express themselves. The language is really secondary; what matters...
Today, we are concluding our week-long tribute to panigiri with modern songs that contain references to this specific cultural phenomenon. So, no dance songs, no festive songs; instead, we will be listening to art and folk songs whose main theme draws on the image, the notion and the practices...
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