#Sofia Vembo

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Εξαιρετική εκτέλεση και ενορχήστρωση 😱 Καλή επέτειο του Όχι να έχουμε!

[amorechevai]

Sofia Vembo − Paixe tsiggane

[epestrefe]

Σοφία Βέμπο

Τραγουδίστρια και ηθοποιός,που ταύτισε το όνομά της με το αλβανικό έπος και αποκλήθηκε "Τραγουδίστρια της Νίκης".Έφυγε σαν σήμερα από την ζωή στις 11 Μαρτίου 1978 σε ηλικία 68 ετών.

[kaanozer]

“Eski İstanbul’un çekiciliğinin büyük bir kısmı, ikisi de artık ortadan yok olan, iki etnik gruptan, Rumlardan ve Beyaz Ruslardan kaynaklanıyordu. Rumlar, kendilerinde çok bol olan yaşama sevincini, sanki boca ediyorlardı İstanbul’un üstüne. Biz Türklerin başlıca kusuru doğuştan hüzünlü olmamızdır bence, onlar ise doğuştan neşelidirler. Türk sarhoş olunca, ya ağlar, ya kavga çıkarır. Rum ise, sarhoş olunca, oynayıp şarkı söyler. Çocukluğumun Büyükadası, mandolin ve gitar sesleriyle, o güzel Rum ezgileriyle sabahlara kadar çınlardı yaz geceleri. Ben meyhaneleri severim. Bu yaşımda bile severim. Ama gerçek meyhaneler, gençliğimin Rum meyhaneleriydi.

İstanbul’un her bir yerinde, Beyoğlu’nda, Tatavla’da, Adalarda, Boğaziçi’nde, Marmara’nın kıyılarında vardı bu Rum meyhaneleri. Gerçek garson, ancak Rum garsonudur, bana sorarsanız.

Hele yaşlı Rum garsonlarının başka bir zarifliği vardı. Sizi masaya öyle bir buyur ederlerdi ki, dakikasında bir prenses sanırdınız kendinizi. Çok sık gittiğimiz Bohem’de, beni karşılamak için, bir çeşit özel marş bile vardı. Yaşlı garsonun bir işareti üzerine “den ehis tipota ma ehis kati” (Hiçbir şeyin yok, ama bir şeyin var) şarkısı başlardı. Şimdiki meyhanelere gerçek meyhane değil, içki içilen lokaller ya da içkili lokantalar diyebilirim ancak.”

Mina Urgan Bir Dinozorun Anıları

[filamentzine]

Dimitra Kousteridou

Α piece of music that needs to be played loud

Joe Henderson, Alice Coltrane - Elements (album)

A piece of music that moves you forward

ASUNA & Jan Jelinek - Blinking of Countless Lines

A piece of music that gets stuck in your head

Robert Wyatt - Sea Song

A piece of music that makes you want to dance

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (album)

A piece of music that makes you feel badass

Pj Harvey - Rid of Me

A piece of music that you remember from your childhood

Sofia Vembo - To Proi Me Xipnas Me Filia

A piece of music that reminds you your hometown

Trypes - Kefali Gemato Xrysafi

The piece of music you’ve listened to the most

Brian Eno - Another Green World (album)

Dimitra is a composer, researcher, and sound artist. Her work is driven by a desire to invent a language in composition that examines tactile and sound aspects within site-specific installations and performances, originating from improvisation. Through multidisciplinary forms that include ephemeral situations and fractures of objects, she creates a space for research while using the sound and natural attributes of materials in time. Recently, she's been diving into improvised sound compositions using handmade instruments and no input mixing techniques. She has presented her research at conferences and festivals, solo and group exhibitions in Greece, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Norway, Lebanon, Serbia, and the UK. She is a founding member of the experimental intermediate project “6.8KOhm Improvisation Series,” an ongoing improvisation action, in collaboration with musicians and artists.

https://www.dimitrakousteridou.com/

[rh35211]

OXI - 28 Οκτωβρίου 1940 ( sofia vembo )

[eskitenekekutu]

ΣΟΦΙΑ ΒΕΜΠΟ - ΠΟΣΟ ΛΥΠΑΜΑΙ... 

Sofia Vembo - Poso Lypamai...

[fiftyyardsaway]

https://youtu.be/50A5kScq6VE

[alatismeni-theitsa]

ΔΑΚΡΥΣΑ

[amorechevai]

Sofia Vembo − Poso lipame

[gemsofgreece]

Hi!!

I'm a Bulgarian learning Greek and it's such a wonderful language :)

I also love the music, but I don't know all that many singers or songs. Could you recommend me some?

Heyy I'm glad you enjoy learning Greek!

I don't know how to approach the music thing without getting you lost in names and genres but I'll try.

First of all, see this previous ask where I list all Greek music genres.

Then check my tag #greek music with several posts on Greek music and videos of Greek songs.

So I made lists of the most popular composers and singers based on their primary music genres. Some genres go together because these artists tend to jump between them or mix them.

Also, note that in Greece music is usually attributed to the composer rather than the performer hence most of the artists here are the songwriters. So my advice is: choose the genres of your preference and then type the name of each artist in youtube with best of and let it guide your from there. I have added some very famous singers though.

Elafró (Light - soft music)

Sofia Vembo

Yannis Spanos

Attik

Souyoul

Nana Mouschouri

Vangelis Germanos

Pop / Modern Laikó / Bouzoukia

Stamatis Kraounakis

Fivos (Phoebus)

Anna Vissi

Michalis Hatziyannis

Elena Paparizou

Despina Vandi

Yorgos Theofanous

Antonis Remos

Yannis Parios

Paschalis Terzis

Kostis Maraveyas

Sakis Rouvas

Keti Garbi

Onirama

Nikos Vertis

Vasilis Karras

Stamatis Gonidis

Christos Dantis

Pantelis Pantelidis

Dimitris Koryalas

Classic Laikó / Rebétiko

Vasilis Tsitsanis

Markos Vamvakaris

Manos Loizos

Yorgos Zabetas

Manolis Hiotis

Stelios Kazatzidis

Grigoris Bithikotsis

Sotiria Bellou

Stratos Dionysiou

Yannis Poulopoulos

Marinella

Haris Alexiou

Dimitris Mitropanos

Christos Nikolopoulos

Yorgos Dalaras

Dimitra Galani

Eleftheria Arvanitaki

Glykeria

Eleni Tsaligopoulou

Tolis Voskopoulos

Spyros Zagoreos

Yorgos Hatzinasios

Kostas Makedonas

Éntechno / Rock

Dionysis Savvopoulos

Thanassis Papakonstantinou

Thanos Mikroutsikos

Lavrentis Maheritsas

Vasilis Papakonstantinou

Yannis Haroulis

Miltos Paschalidis

Nikos Papazoglou

Yannis Kotsiras

Melina Kana

Sokratis Malamas

Alkistis Protopsalti

Matoula Zamani

Christos Thiveos

Alkinoos Ioannidis

Pantelis Thalassinos

Nikos Mamagakis

Nikos Portokaloglou

Katsimihas brothers

Mariza Rizou

Electronic / Progressive Rock

Vangelis (Papathanasiou)

Rap

Mithridates

Imiskoumpria

Isvoleas

12os Pithikos

Midenistis

NiVo

Stavento

Classical

Nikos Skalkotas

Manolis Kalomiris

Nikolaos Mantzaros

Dimitris Mitropoulos

Maria Farantouri

Marios Frangoulis

Maria Callas

Byzantine Ecclesiastical

Nektaria Karantzi

Petros Gaitanos

!!!A genre on their own!!!

Manos Hatzidakis

Mikis Theodorakis

Yannis Markopoulos

Stavros Xarchakos

Nikos Xylouris

Mimis Plessas

Eleni Karaindrou

Evanthia Reboutsika

Stamatis Spanoudakis

[tiny-wonderland-nerd]

Hey yall! So every Greek in the tsoa fandom can agree that "Poso Lipame" by Sofia Vembo describes perfectly Patroclus and Achilles relationship, so im posting some of its lyrics in english:

How sorry I am for the years that were spent

before I meet you, that I longed for so long

And how afraid I am that one day I may be losing you

cause forgetting you would never be possible...

[symeona]

Idk if this is something you're even interested in hearing about, but for the majority of my very american white bread life, I thought that all of the stories like PJO and LO were cool and fun ways to spread greek mythos, while not really knowing myself the inaccuracies and disrespect these series both carry, not only to the values they claim to espouse such as anti-racism, spreading mental health awareness, and feminism, but just how wrong they get the Greek side of things too. I just feel/see more and more how majorily Americans refuse to believe that taking Greek culture and misrepresenting it, bastardizing it, and hollywood-izing it is a bad thing, and how it deserves some respect for the ancient culture it is beyond "hardy har zeus scum cheater man" and "uwu rick/smythe are the final opinion on greek mythos". It's become such a mainstream thing here for people to use LO and PJO as literal scholarly interpretations of myths and the entire reason Greek mythology is as popular today while simultaneously ignoring the work Greeks have done to make their culture known, and I myself don't know the half of their efforts. The entitlement to tell someone, from my own personal experience, that they have the right to retell and change myths to their own will just because greek myths happened to be taught in their history class therefore making it fair game for Americans is just... how can so many people who claim to be on the left not realize their own imperialism right there? And then, god forbid you ask them about anything about greek history or culture that isn't Alexander the Great or the Illiad. They know nothing of Greece's roll in WW2, or what the Ottomons did to them, nothing at all.

Sorry for the rant, but I felt you would have an opinion I haven't heard on it before and I'm trying to see how different people view this issue.

Aaaa oof. Okay..

One issue with "Greek myths" is that the version most ppl know now, was published by archeologists who interpreted the stories through their own lenses almost 100 years ago. Zeus wasn't the 'King of gods', that's some christian bs right there. The largest Temple ever found is the one for Hera in Samos. But still, all gods were equal. And myths are so different from place to place that I don't think you'll ever find the "original" story.

And don't talk to me about the Great Alexander, that monster. How ppl have hero worship for that prick is beyond me. Ironically his horse was called Bullhead.

So, you mentioned the Ottoman occupation.

⚠️ I'll mention violence.

We called it 600 years of enslavement by the Empire. And it was. The scars from that time are still with us today. When I say 'entire islands and cities were burned to the ground' I mean it. This year marks 200 years of liberty which is cool, but yeah I can't tell you what a kid feels when they look at their history and all they find is bloodshed.

Victims from Smyrna are still alive today. And if you read what happened there please be warned.

So Greece went from 600 years of occupation and slavery, to the Balkan Wars, to ww1, to civil war, to ww2, to more civil war, to martial law/ dictatorship in the 1970s, and now .. well, let's say, we've had democracy for 50 years. My dad was a kid during the Polytechnic Uprising where tanks ran over children in front of their parents.

I hesitate to say Greece is part of Europe or 'the Western world'. Because during each one of these tragedies the Allies watched my people burn and die. Should they have the authority to claim our history as their own? I don't know.

Anyway, I hate to leave you on a sad note so I'll just add that, during the wars Greece let women fight, look for Bubulina and Manto Mavrogenous. Those two were high ranking officers.

And for a funny (kind of) anecdote: Greeks celebrate the 28th of October as "Ochi day". And the story is that during ww2 an Italian ambassador told our prime minister "hand Greece over to us and there won't be war". Our prime minister simply told him "Ochi" which means "No." Though actually, he said "Alors, c’est la guerre." (So, it's war.) And then people ran out in the streets chanting "Oxi" cause you know... Fuck Mussolini. We actually won the battle with the Italians so sksksksk

I love this story cause it's so.. Greek. We said "Nope." And then celebrate it every year by singing very offensive songs about goofy fascists. It's great. If anyone wants to write a story in modern Greece, please know that every kid knows this song by heart.

Here are the lyrics translated, though I realize it's hard to comprehend. We have too many creative words. Macarona literally means Macaroni-man for example.

[elladastinkardiamou]

Sofia  Vembo, the national voice of Greece during the Greek-Italian war and the Axis occupation. The singer and actress became a major inspiration for the soldiers fighting at the war front and for the people in general. Her most famous song that encouraged the Greek soldiers during the Greek-Italian War  and was “Children of Greece, Children,” written after the Italian attack on Greece, on 28. October 1940.

The song still remains popular and is to hear at every anniversary of 28. October 1940, the Oxi Day.

The lyrics were written right at the beginning of the war and became the most popular during that period.

The music of the song was adopted from song “Zechra” (1938) composed by Michalis Souyoul.

Writer and lyricist Mimis Traiforos changed the lyrics in 1940 and the title to “Children of Greece, Children!”

An unknown background detail about the song is that Traiforos (Vembo’s long time partner)  had originally written the last verse as “If you don’t come back victorious, never come.”

Sofia Vembo found that verse “particularly cruel and unfair” for the Greek soldiers fighting in the front and changed it into ”