The band of my co-author Alexandros Paraskevopoulos:
1. ”Μουσικές Αλκυονίδες” – Σαββατόβραδο (Μοσχοβολούν οι γειτονιές)
When Alexandros is singing the dolphins are dancing…
2. Σαν τον αητό είχα φτερά & Οι μοιραίοι(Στην υπόγεια την ταβέρνα)
When Alexandros is singing the dolphins are dancing…
Introducing Jalapeno
When Alexandros is singing the dolphins are dancing…
The gothic-rock group “In Vein” of my friend Ilias:
In Vein, Vale of Pain
When Ilias is singing the elephants are dancing…
In Vein, Heartblades
When Ilias is singing the elephants are dancing…
In Vein, Vile Angel
When Ilias is singing the elephants are dancing…
In Vein, My Darkest Star
When Ilias is singing the elephants are dancing…
ENTEXNO:
Mikis Theodorakis-Odysseus Elytis:
AXION ESTI in German (Leipzig, 1982)
Mikis Theodorakis-Sikelianos-Farantouri:
Manos Xatzidakis:
Kemal
Greek Musicians/Singers/Groups:
Manolis Mitsias/ Dimos Moutsis:
Κι αν ο αγέρας φυσά
Manos Loizos-Giannis Negrepontis:
Ακορντεόν
Diafana Krina-Ouranis:
Θα πεθάνω ένα πένθιμο του φθινοπώρου δείλι
Mimis Plessas:
Κυριακή-Καρυωτάκης
Νίκος Ξυλούρης:
Χαΐνηδες:
ΛΑΙΚΟ:
Μητροπάνος:
Σ’ αναζητώ στη Σαλονίκη
Βραδιάζει
Θεοδώσης-Τερζής:
Το σπίτι που γεννήθηκα
ROCK:
Pavlos Sidiropoulos & Aprosarmostoi:
Welcome to the show
Monika:
Over the hill
Nikolas Asimos:
Bagasas
Exadaktylos & Dimitris Poulikakos:
O giatros paidia
Last Drive:
Glass of Broken Dreams
The Earthbound:
La guerra final
Tzimis Panousis:
Neoellinas
I am what Ι listen to!!! I listen to Tzimi…HA HA HA…Δεν πάει το παπάκι στην ποταμιά!!!
Aphrodite’s child:
The four horseman
Πελόμα Μποκιού:
Γαρύφαλλε Γαρύφαλλε
ΝΟΣΤΡΑΔΑΜΟΣ:
Δώσ’ μου το χέρι σου
NEW WAVE:
Villa 21:
Blackout baby
EXPERIMENTAL:
Lost Bodies-Kavafis:
Idoni
To syntagma tis idonis
Θυμήσου Σώμα…
FOLK METAL:
DAEMONIA NYMPHE:
Hypnos
ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC
David Creese of the University of Newcastle plays an ancient Greek song taken from stone inscriptions constructed on an eight-string “canon” (a zither-like instrument) with movable bridges. (Audio file is ©BBC)
The music of ancient Greece, unheard for thousands of years, is being brought back to life by Armand D’Angour, a musician and tutor in classics at Oxford University. He describes what his research is discovering.
“Suppose that 2,500 years from now all that survived of the Beatles songs were a few of the lyrics, and all that remained of Mozart and Verdi’s operas were the words and not the music.
Imagine if we could then reconstruct the music, rediscover the instruments that played them, and hear the words once again in their proper setting, how exciting that would be.
This is about to happen with the classic texts of ancient Greece.
It is often forgotten that the writings at the root of Western literature – the epics of Homer, the love-poems of Sappho, the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides – were all, originally, music.
Dating from around 750 to 400 BC, they were composed to be sung in whole or part to the accompaniment of the lyre, reed-pipes, and percussion instruments.
But isn’t the music lost beyond recovery? The answer is no. The rhythms – perhaps the most important aspect of music – are preserved in the words themselves, in the patterns of long and short syllables.
The instruments are known from descriptions, paintings and archaeological remains, which allow us to establish the timbres and range of pitches they produced.
And now, new revelations about ancient Greek music have emerged from a few dozen ancient documents inscribed with a vocal notation devised around 450 BC, consisting of alphabetic letters and signs placed above the vowels of the Greek words.
The Greeks had worked out the mathematical ratios of musical intervals – an octave is 2:1, a fifth 3:2, a fourth 4:3, and so on.
While the documents, found on stone in Greece and papyrus in Egypt, have long been known to classicists – some were published as early as 1581 – in recent decades they have been augmented by new finds. Dating from around 300 BC to 300 AD, these fragments offer us a clearer view than ever before of the music of ancient Greece.
