This is the last day of our week-long tribute to sailors and to songs about sailors, those heroes of seafaring who keep alive not only Greek shipping but also our lifestyle, consumption and the fundamentals of our societies. It is, of course, not surprising that there are enough songs with seamanship-related...
Instead of ports, on today’s voyage we are visiting songs that contain references to sailors, to the heroes of the seas, their achievements and their concerns, their departures and their arrivals. These songs are performed by notable folk vocalists, from Vicky Mosholiou to Giannis Parios and from E...
Today, our tribute to sailors continues, with a menu of songs that includes beautiful laiko tunes. Poly Panou, Stratos Dionysiou, Giota Lydia, Rena Koumioti and Marinella are just some of the robust, original folk voices that will be keeping us company. In addition, we will be listening to some equally...
Today, we are proceeding with our voyage across songs that contain references to seamen, to their adventures, their worries and their joys. Some of the greatest songwriters and vocalists will be keeping us company – from Arleta to Giota Nega and from Hainides band to Loudovikos from Anogeia. Really, i...
Today’s menu includes folk songs about sailors by huge names such as Stelios Kazantzidis, Poly Panou, Giorgos Margaritis and Vicky Mosholiou. Some of them are songs of melancholy, farewell and contemplation. Others are songs of joy. One way or another, the density with which the theme of seamen and s...
I love live recordings – they convey the atmosphere of the concert, the sense of togetherness, this fantastic interaction among the performer, the musicians and the audience. Today, we will be listening to the great voices of the 1980s and to moments from their concerts recorded live. From Vassilis L...
Singer-songwriters are a thing of the 1980s - a trend that later developed further and flourished in the following decade. But what is a singer-songwriter? Basically, they are artists who undertake all the stages of song creation, writing the lyrics and the melodies and performing the songs themselves,...
The Greek 1980s are pop, no doubt about that. Constantina, Alexia, Sofia Vossou and Andreas Mikroutsikos, Manto, Costas Haritodiplomenos and Michalis Rakintzis are just some of the names that fuel a light and uplifting genre. It is a genre that reflects the positivity, the innocence, the optimism and...
Today, we will be listening to a web of albums and artists that together formulated the new folk sound of the 1980s. Their common foundation is lyricist Manolis Rasoulis, a poet and a philosopher, a true intellectual who altered the course of Greek song. Rasoulis delivered a range of outstanding albums,...
Greek rock is cool and the eighties are cool too – in fact, the coolest of all decades. There are so many iconic looks and styles from the 80s that it's hard to know where to start. As for Greek rock, a vast spectrum of music geniuses, from Tzimis Panousis to Vlassis Bonatsos and from Nikolas Asimos t...
The first half of today’s journey includes a select set of songs that depict the moon as a symbol of love – a guardian of romance and emotion. Haris Alexiou, Aleka Kanellidou and Giannis Parios are some of the voices that we shall be listening to in this context. The second half of today’s GME is de...
“Your words were a knife to the heart the moment you said goodbye to me. You didn't keep your word, you left me alone into the night and the cold. Your words are a knife to the heart, you keep coming back to my mind and it hurts. And I didn't sleep tonight, I remembered your eyes, come back I love y...
“Time flies, they say, and heals wounds, but the pain that you caused is still bothering me, separation is unbearable, it extinguishes and burns me. How to forget the moments when you were with me, the shadows of your love nestle in my soul, I know, it's only your fault that my life was ruined. Tonight y...
Rock is rhythm, electrified atmosphere and thrust. Rock is pure force, much like the force of the human endeavour to explore space and the moon. Rock is Vassilis Papakonstantinou, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Haris and Panos Katsimihas. Rock is Christos Thivaios and his former band, Usual Suspects: “Red b...
“I recorded the moon tonight, come let us hear songs of heaven and let sleep take us in the morning with a mind overwhelmed by love. And I photographed my voice for you, the paper was filled with colors and highlights. Lean into the headrest with me tonight, your lips are a red feast. Everything goes b...
Ifigenia Korologou is a performer and songwriter. She was born and raised in Piraeus and at the age of 18 she started contemporary singing lessons at the National Conservatory with Mary Esper and then with Martha Morelon. At the same time, she took lessons in music theory and classical guitar. In 2005,...
Special, versatile, one of the best songwriters of his generation. The rich talent of Orestis Ntantos has been reflected in the dozens of songs he has written since 2009, when he was introduced to us with the album "There are others like us". Since then, he has released more albums (“Last Sunrise” in ...
Dimitris Bakoulis is a talented and highly dynamic self-taught songwriter. Born and raised in the town of Aliveri, Evia, he started playing the guitar at the age of 9 and writing songs at the age of 15. He appeared in the discography in 2016 with "Other lives" and continued in 2021 with the "Devil of...
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