Category: Rebetiko of the day
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Takis Binis, Beautiful woman from Piraeus
Takis Binis arrived on the rebetiko scene in Athens in the late 1940s and…
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Voula Gika, I’ve become a bad mother
Voula Gika made her first recording in 1950 and her last in 2013. In…
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Eleftherios Menemenlis, You don’t tell me where the hash is sold
This blog is partly about sharing a genre of music I love; it’s also,…
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The player is the thing: Instrumental rebetiko
Rebetiko re-releases and compilation albums tend to concentrate on singers and composers – rightfully…
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Yiannis Stamoulis, By God
This is not only the best known composition by rebetiko singer and guitarist Yiannis…
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Angeliki Papazogolou, Galata manes (When I see you, I rejoice)
Angeliki Papazogolou had her life drastically change three times before the age of 45.…
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Kostas Kanoulas, <em>The mother who gave birth to you</em>
Mothers are common in Greek music – actually, music everywhere in the world, I think.…
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Christos Tsitsanis: Sit down and listen
Here we have the other Tsitsanis, the older brother of Vasilis, who plays a…
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Dimitris Atraidis, The infatuated
Dimitris Atraidis is said to be one of the purest interpreters of Smyrneika rebetiko,…
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The old man & I want a princess
She wants an old man to marry. He wants a princess from Morocco. And…
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