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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Banda Entopica is a traditional music street band based in Thessaloniki, fusing clarinet, saxophone, accordion and davul in a synthesis of traditional and modern Balkan music. Influenced by a wide array of sounds from Macedonia, Thrace, Epirus and the entire Balkan Peninsula
Xefrago Ambeli band was formed in 2011 and is made up of friends and family members. Antigone Stappa plays the guitar, Spyros Lembesis plays the violin, Grigoris Lembesis plays the lute and Emmanouil Paliakis plays percussion and brass instruments.
Gidiki band was created in Thessaloniki in 2014. At that time Tasos Kofodimos, Filippos Fasoulas, Konstantinos Lazos and Kostantis Papakonstantinou started experimenting by arranging traditional pieces.
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