Publications

"Local Greek Music and Dances from West and Central Macedonia"

LP EL.KE.LA.M. 1985-1989

The HELLENIC CENTRE OF FOLKLORE STUDIES in cooperation with DICK VAN DER ZWAN present music and songs of local music bands from Central and West Macedonia and more specific from the following villages: Platani Edessas, Episkopi Naoussas, Goumenissa Kilkis and Mesonisi Florinas.

The songs and the dances of the LP are:

1. Stankina
2. Zavlitsena
3. Patrounina
4. Pousnitsa
5. Raikou Koukouraikou
6. Popova Kerka
7. Veter Pountinalo
8. Tsamikos
9. Dipat
10. Letsina
11. Tik
12. Kotsari
13. Serenitsa
14. Maria’s
15. Baiduska
16. Bairatse
17. Dipat
18. Poustseno
19. Tik

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"NORTHERN THRACE"
LP-CD EL.KE.LA.M 1994-1

A skilful player of the clarinet, among other wind instruments from Epirus, grouped together with an accordion player from Lefkada and a player from Moreas on the strings, present with absolute authenticity a selection of dances from Nothern Thrace, tunes which in the majority are known to us, who cherish our folk music. These musicians perform with zest, fondness and deep insight, having consolidated that distinct style of the region, as if they, themselves, were from Thrace.

The songs and dances that this music publication consists of are:

1. Streis

2. Baiduska
3. Dusko
4. Karsilamas
5. Syrto Anastenariko
6. Troirou
7. Kastrinos
8. Baiduska
9. Sygathistos
10. Tsesto
11. Podaraki
12. I came and say goodmorning (Dusko)
13. Bride's (only in the CD)

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"BIRD CRIES ALONE"
CD-MC EL.KE.LA.M. 1997-3

With Vaggelis Dimoudis and the band of Nikos Filippidis.

The songs that this publication contains are:

1. Bird cries in the seashore (zonaradikos)
2. Baiduska/Pirdika mou grammeni (zonaradikos)
3. John wants to be a painter (sirtos-hasapiko)
4. The shepherd (zonaradikos)
5. Gemetzis (sirtos from eastern Thrace)
6. I became an orphan very young (table song)
7. Madilatos
8. The little tree (zonaradikos)
9. The rich boy (sirtos sigathistos)
10. Pagonou (zonaradikos)
11. Giaretzopoula’s (xisirtos)
12. Kouemtzis (zonaradikos)
13. Doulgeri doulgeraki (zonaradikos)
14. Herinaki (karsilamas)

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“Yesterday I Saw in my Dreams”

DANCING SONGS FROM THRACE

PUBLICATION SUPERVISOR AND PRODUCER

Vassilis Dimitropoulos

CULTURAL ADVISOR

PHOTOS AND SONGS COLLECTOR

Giorgos Ziogas

SINGING

Litsa Oulianoudi

PUBLICATION and PRODUCTION

EL.KE.LA.M. DECEMBER 2002

CD 1

1. Mother come out

2. Armenos’s son (tapinos-easter dance)

3. Dahtili (dahtili)

4. A young Turkish boy (kalamatianos)

5. Our John was put in line (zonaradikos)

6. A short shorty man (zvarnistos-xisirtos)

7. If it is to come a heavy weather (zonaradikos)

8. This summer (sirtos sigathisto)

9. The small barley (baiduska)

10. Yesterday and the day before in my dreams (kathistiko)

11. (Orchestric) Laisos-koutsos

12. Yesterday I saw in my dreams (zonaradikos koulouriastos)

CD 2

1. Spread to the dance (tapinos-sta tria)

2. A widow has a beautiful son (kalamatianos)

3. I want to go to Fragia/ to marbles marbles (zonaradikos klostros)

4. A small funfair took place (zvarnistos-xisirtos)

5. Little Konstantinos (zonaradikos)

6. Volani’s/They put me in prison (table song)

7. Turkish loved a Greek girl (zonaradikos)

8. I’m the fisher’s son (sirtos-sigathisto)

9. Damn the one that he will say/Brotherhood love (drista)

10. Butcher (hasapia)

11. This year’s summer (zonaradikos)

12. My mother engaged me (sigathistos-madilatos)

13. (Orchestric) Sihtir Havasi (sousta)

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"If Platonas... was burnt"

The Greek adventures of traditional music,

The musicians and the gnarled road of discography

OFFICIAL AND "UNOFFICIAL" DISCOGRAPHY 1962-2004, SOURCES AND CHOICES

DISCOGRAPHY OF 366 KNOWN AND UNKNOWN MUSICIANS AND SINGERS

AUTHOR
Nikos Bekos

PUBLICATION and PRODUCTION
EL.KE.LA.M. 2006

With this edition –that is accompanied by 2 cds- we are trying to inform, especially the younger, friends of music art and to motivate them against wrong interpretations that become an obstacle in their efforts to become familiarized with the valuable wealth of the real traditional songs, and the artistic value of the music and dance variety. In few words, we are attempting a description of incidents –especially after the 1950’s- and the remarking of some phenomena that accomplished the unfair submersion of the influence of traditional music and also the “sick” hypostasis in the music scene of the same period.

It also refers to parts of cultural and artistic ability that are related to modern (musical or others) means of expression of traditional music.

In the end, using as starting point the collective research of the author, we are presenting an amount of discography elements in chosen units (for example: independent peripheral editions, foreign discs, editions according to categories and regional criteria and catalogues of artists’ discography, etc.) in order to save and record audio proof and to provide valuable information to researchers, musicians and every interested party.

Finally, when the gap is obvious between everything that traditional music should regard and everything that it is getting at last, the truth written in this book will make obvious the reasons why Platonas was never burnt and will never be burnt.

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