Listen to this episode of “Infinitely Curious”, the English-language program of of ERT and Voice of Greece with Katerina Batzaki, and explore the human brain by learning how to shift the way we think through the power of neuroplasticity.
Listen to scientist Don Vaughn on the amazin...
Dimitris Papadimitriou released his first album, titled “Landscapes”, in 1981. This is an outstanding orchestral, progressive and new age music album, regarded today as one of the most important and rare records of Greek electronic music. Two more pioneering albums followed, the O.S.T. for the 1983 “Re...
Lampros Vazaios narrates his experiences in the prison camps for exiled political prisoners on Gyaros and Leros, where he was stationed as a military doctor during the dictatorship.
Interviewee: Lambros VazeosInterview by: Stavros VlachosPodcast creator: Stavros VlachosSound Designer:...
Stavros Logaridis, who passed away two years ago at the age of 69, was a much-loved creator. Songwriter and composer, Logaridis was a very talented man – and as often happens with people of many talents, somewhere his course and path in musical things was not aligned with his potential, as it should h...
George Theodorakis, son of Mikis, recorded several compositions that belong to the heart of Greek electronic music. Indeed, music critics have described him as ‘perhaps the most interesting and accomplished electronic music composer’ in the country. Influenced by Pink Floyd, among others, George suc...
Thesia Panagiotou, Thymios Papadopoulos, Alexandros Hahalis
Thesia Panagiotou: First Prize for Best Soundtrack at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, 1989, for Oh Babylon, directed by Costas Feris. First Prize for Best Soundtrack at the Ankara Film Festival, 1992, for Seni seviyorum Rosa, directed by...
The week that starts today here at GME is dedicated to some key figures of electronic music in Greece. Composer and pianist Lena Platonos is definitely one of them. Thanks to her pioneering albums in the mid-1980s (Sun Masks, Gallop, Lepidoptera), Lena is rightfully considered a highly influential artist...
Listen to this episode of Infinitely Curious, the English-language program of Voice of Greece with Katerina Batzaki, and learn how one can travel without spending a dime.
Find out from travel writer from Croatia Tomislav Perko, 29, how he hit the road and turned it into his home by usi...
During the dictatorship, Nikos Manios joins the armed resistance organisation the ‘20th of October Movement’, planting bombs at various targets in Athens. When he is arrested, he is sent into internal exile on Gyaros.
Interviewee: Nikos ManiosInterview by: Stavros VlachosPodcast creator: Sta...
The week that ends today here at GME was dedicated to the bands of the Greek underground – the groups of friends that shaped a new, heavy and dynamic rock sound away from the mainstream of the recording establishment. Today, we will be listening to the …angry melodies of an unconventional artist and...
According to the dictionaries, the band’s name means constant care and diligence. The members of Endelehia? Dimitris Mitsotakis (lyrics, drums, vocals), Dimitris Leontopoulos (acoustic guitar, vocals), Antonis Dimitriou (electric guitars, vocals) who sadly passed away earlier this month, Andreas Vaitoudis (...
We have been emphasising the contribution of certain bands to the shaping of the sound of the Greek underground and today, we will be appreciating Lefki Symphonia (White Symphony), a band that many analysts regard as one of the best rock bands of the 1980s. It comprised musicians Thodoris Dimitriou,...
This week here at GME is dedicated to the bands of the Greek underground – those collectives that dared to pave the way for a more dynamic sound and for a more radical poetic landscape in Greek song. Today, we will be shedding light on a pioneering group that produced one of the most innovative and i...
This week here at GME is the week of the bands of Greek underground. Indicatively, today’s list contains songs by Arnakia, Lizzards of the Royal Streets, Stigma 90, Panx Romana and Underground Trajectory, among others. Thanks to the Internet, you too can search for the bands and the songs that marked t...
Τhis Sunday 17 November 2024 the English-language show "Infinitely Curious" with Katerina Batzaki presents Stefan Al explaining why trees are so important to a city’s survival. Learn how a handful of young activists planted a small forest on a Portuguese hillside that had burned down in a terrible wi...
On 21 April 1967, the day of the coup in Greece, the police comes knocking on Rinio and Chronis Missios’s door. Chronis has already escaped, but Rinio is arrested and taken first to the racetrack and then to the barren island of Gyaros, together with thousands of other citizens considered ‘dangerous’ to th...
The week that ends here at GME was dedicated to key figures of the Greek underground – the artists, the works and the ideas that shaped music production away from the mainstream of the recording landscape. Today, we will be enjoying the music that Giorgos Hatzinasios and Kyriakos Sfetsas created for t...
Music analyst Giorgos Charonitis notes the following about the album “The Blues of the Prince” by rock legend Pavlos Sidiropoulos: “It's not just a recording documentary. It is about much more: a voice heard underground, a sound desperately trying to keep its secret, an allegory of images that can o...
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