Our last batch of songs with references to the Aegean islands and their beauty includes grand voices such as Aleka Kanellidou, Kaiti Homata and Popi Asteriadi, rock and roll legends such as Pashalis and a younger generation of artists such as Katerina Kyrmizi and Vasiliki Karakosta. Leonidas Maridakis...
The Aegean is a unique insular and cultural system that emerged in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, a place where the European, the Asian and the African human-geographical history and evolution intersect. Naturally, this place has also intersected with Greek song, with the crème-de-la-crème of Greek c...
Our goal, this week, is to document the dominant position of the islands of the Aegean in modern Greek songs. Today’s menu includes rock artists such as Giannis Giokarinis and Leonidas Balafas, art singers-songwriters such as Miltos Pashalidis and Vassilis Kazoulis, renowned composers such as Evanthia R...
This is not a week with island songs, nisiotika, i.e. traditional songs from the Aegean, even though you are warmly invited to explore nisiotika, both in past broadcasts of GME and in other platforms. This is a week with modern Greek songs that contain references to the islands. And indeed, the islands...
Elina Afentaki on “Our Town” | 15 July 2024
Today, we continue our tribute to statues with songs that contain references to them and share a more rock sound or character. Here, the word ‘rock’ is used to denote not one single genre as such, but something unconventional and unexpected, something alternative that goes beyond the frontiers of est...
Songs of resurrection
Greece is one of the few countries in the world with so many castles and fortresses. It is estimated that there are more than 1200 on the mainland and the islands. The castles of Greece were often in the centre of modern European history. Today, we are listening to a selection of songs that include...
This week here at GME is dedicated to three core features of Greece and its built environment: churches, castles and statues. Today, we will be listening to songs with references to castles, which constitute a very visible reflection of the country’s rich history. Castles are venues of myth and mystery, c...
Religion is an important aspect of Greek culture. Greece is a country with a predominantly Christian Orthodox population and countless holy sites such as churches and historic monasteries scattered in the Greek mainland and the islands. Now, today we shall be listening to songs with references to churches...
Elina Afentaki on “Our Town” | 15 July 2024
The week that ends here at GME was dedicated tο previously unreleased live recordings of Greek music artists and today we will be interviewing what I regard as the most impressive female voice of the younger generation, while appreciating songs performed live by her: Despoina Rafail. An interview with ...
A sensational uprising, one of the least well known ones in history…
Saturday June 4, 1932, Mouzaki, Karditsa. The villagers cannot secure the bread of the year, in the face of the economic crisis that has come to us from the USA initially and then Europe. So they rise up with the slogan "Bread o...
Our journey across previously unreleased live recordings of Greek music artists continues. Today, we will be celebrating the live recordings of a highly cosmopolitan, gentle and sensitive singer-songwriter who has given new meaning to the concept of light song: Giorgis Christodoulou. Giorgis first appeared...
Georgios Dilvois, a refugee from Alatsata in Asia Minor, becomes the first Greek to die in battle, in World War I, serving in the American army! He had earlier won the medal of valor, fighting Pancho Villa's men in Mexico. A tribute by Nikolas Angelidis and the show "Time in Greece" to the Greek immigrant...
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