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Greek Music Express

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Μια αγγλόφωνη εκπομπή για την ελληνική μουσική, που αφηγείται τις ιστορίες του ελληνικού τραγουδιού, των συνθετών, των στιχουργών και των ερμηνευτών που το καθόρισαν.

Greek Music Express
Greek Music Express : GREEK UNDERGROUND–THE PEOPLE : Songs and music for films of Pavlos Tasios | 15.11.2024
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...
Greek Music Express : GREEK UNDERGROUND–THE PEOPLE : The blues of Pavlos Sidiropoulos | 14.11.2024
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...
Greek Music Express : GREEK UNDERGROUND–THE PEOPLE : The ‘illegal’ tapes of Nikolas Asimos| 13.11.2024
Singer-songwriter Nikolas Asimos wrote: “We are looking for people, not for ideologies. We are looking for people who have courage, love, kindness. People who are not liars, shallow and comfortable, and know how to give, not how to cheat and take advantage of those around them. People who are at least w...
Greek Music Express : GREEK UNDERGROUND–THE PEOPLE : Katerina Gogou set to music | 12.11.2024
The first source of today’s track list is an album titled ‘Up and Down Patision Street’, containing 20 of Katerina Gogou’s poems set to music. The songs are composed and performed by, among others, Panos Katsimihas, Martha Fritzila, Vaso Alagianni, Lolek, Eva Loukatou, Rita Antonopoulou, Pantelis Theocha...
Greek Music Express : GREEK UNDERGROUND–THE PEOPLE : Poulikakos live | 11.11.2024
Dimitris Poulikakos is a Greek singer, composer, actor, radio producer, writer, and translator of surrealist poetry and literature. He was born in Athens in January 1943 in a relatively wealthy bourgeois family. Dimitris Poulikakos participated in the publication of the landmark Pali magazine together...
Greek Music Express : GREEK COVERS OF FOREIGN HITS : Anna Vissi and Giannis Katevas | 08.11.2024
A very special artistic phenomenon was at the heart of this week’s GME broadcasts. We are referring to a wave of covers of Italian, Spanish, French, British, Dutch and other international hits that flooded the Greek recording landscape towards the end of the 1970s, until the mid-1980s. Some of the g...
Greek Music Express : GREEK COVERS OF FOREIGN HITS : Filippos Nikolaou and Themιs Adamantidis| 07.11.2024
In the Greek discography, the arrangements of foreign songs with Greek lyrics have been a brilliant success story, especially in the second half of the ’70s, when there was a need for expression beyond the established folk, political, Hatzidakis and Theodorakis songs that were very popular at the t...
Greek Music Express : GREEK COVERS OF FOREIGN HITS : Yannis Parios | 06.11.2024
The whole project of covers of European light songs in Greek was started by Minos label, with Yannis Parios being the main "vehicle" in this direction being. Parios, who was to become the leading figure of sentimental song, had not yet made the "leap" that would permanently establish him at the top,...
Greek Music Express : GREEK COVERS OF FOREIGN HITS : Giannis Poulopoulos | 05.11.2024
In the Greek discography, the covers of foreign songs have been a brilliant success story. Thanks to those covers, the light folk song emerged and became a trend, an entirely distinct genre. Now, Yiannis Poulopoulos is certainly considered one of the greatest Greek singers, and rightly so. In addition...
Greek Music Express : GREEK COVERS OF FOREIGN HITS : Aleka Kanellidou| 04.11.2024
This week here at GME is dedicated to the covers of European songs that Greek artists recorded at the end of the 1970s and the start of the 80s, a very interesting episode in this wonderful story called Greek music. Today, we will be appreciating the style and aesthetics of a real lady of Greek song,...
Greek Music Express: MASTERS OF CLASSICAL GUITAR: Elena Papandreou – Eva Fampa | 01.11.2024
Elena Papandreou studied the guitar with Evangelos Boudounis and with Oscar Ghiglia. She also studied with Gordon Crosskey at the Royal Northern College of Music, England, on a British Council scholarship, obtaining the Diploma in Advanced Studies in Musical Performance. She has won the First Prize...
Greek Music Express : MASTERS OF CLASSICAL GUITAR:3 virtuosi x 3 composers of works for classical guitar | 31.10.2024
Today, we will be listening to modern Greek guitar music drawn from three exquisite albums: In the first one, guitarist Aristotelis Vrettakis plays music of Diamandis Andromidas. The second one is titled Dama dama and involves Stathis Skandalidis playing music of Michalis Koumbios. And the third one...
Greek Music Express : MASTERS OF CLASSICAL GUITAR: Costas Cotsiolis – Costas Grigoreas | 30.10.2024
With a celebrated career spanning over 40 years and highly-acclaimed concerts and tours all over the world, Costas Cotsiolis is nowadays recognized as one of the greatest guitarists of our time. His career took off at the young age of 15, when he performed Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez wi...
Greek Music Express : MASTERS OF CLASSICAL GUITAR: Gerasimos Miliaresis | 29.10.2024
Gerasimos Miliaresis was born in Braila, Romania in 1918 to Kefalonian parents. In 1947 he received diplomas in guitar and harmony from the Hellenic Conservatory, both with honors. In 1950, with a scholarship from the Italian government, he attended advanced courses with professor Andres Segovia in...
OΗΙ Day (October 28) commemorated aboard “Greek Music Express” | 28.10.2024
Ohi Day is commemorated on October 28 every year in Greece and by Greeks around the world. On this day, in 1940, Ioannis Metaxas denied Mussolini’s request to allow Italian troops to cross into Greece. Greece’s entry into World War II with the start of the Greco-Italian War is honoured as an act...
Greek Music Express : SONGS FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES : The children’s songs of Giorgis Christodoulou| 25.10.2024
The truth is, there was nothing left free on Earth. The lakes and rivers were long sold, the beaches were all rented out, and the early morning sun rays were up for sale in very expensive, small jars, only in "good" stores. And suddenly, they decided to take out the moon too... with the hammer! This...
Greek Music Express : SONGS FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES : ‘‘The Dragon’s Feather’ – ‘Talk to Me About Apples’ | 24.10.2024
‘The Dragon’s Feather’: A book - CD, with 13 musical fairy tales as a gift for children, young and old, prepared by Mikri Arktos label. A gift full of hope, grace and joy, which we are sure will be loved and sung by everyone. Two artists from Thessaloniki, composer Dimitris Markatopoulos and lyricist Chris...
Greek Music Express : SONGS FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES : ‘Tell Me Your Name’ by Foivos Delivorias | 23.10.2024
"Tell me your name" is the title of a 2018 music book by Foivos Delivorias that includes a story about his childhood and his relationship with the city and its people, as well as fifteen children's songs - twelve of his own and three of Giorgos Hadjipieris that Foivos had sung in the past. The excellent...