#greek music

[mhmeaggizeis]

Να Μ’Αγαπάς- Παύλος Σιδηρόπουλος

[nataliliv]

❤️☘️🍒 Have a nice evening ❤️☘️🍒

[loulouditoudromou]

Μη με παίρνεις τηλέφωνο, πάρε με αγκαλιά

[orgismenh]

Όταν ξεμείνω από τσιγάρα,

όταν οι τοίχοι μου με κλείσουν,

όταν τα ρούχα μου βαρύνουν

και δεν μπορώ να κοιμηθώ,

όταν τελειώσω τον καφέ μου,

θα είναι ανάγκη να σε δω.

[katerinaaqu]

Remembering this PHENOMENAL Greek song and made me think of Thetis

Oh! And where shall I throw my great pain Where I shall do so the earth shall split open The earth shall split open And the mountain will crack! * Oh sun, you murderer How could you let this evil befall! They killed the Booted Eagle and the Morning Star! Down at the crossroad they killed the young man! Down at the crossroad they killed the young man! * And the girls have let their hair loose So that you grab from somewhere, eagle grab from somewhere, eagle so that you climb from oblivion * Oh, sun, you murderer How could you let this evil befall They killed the Booted Eagle and the Morning Star! Down at the crossroad they killed the young man! Down at the crossroad they killed the young man!

This song comes from an AMAZING dramatic Greek movie made in the 1970s called Αστραπόγιαννος (Astrapogiannos -> Lightning-John) which basically speaks on the life of people in the last centuries who were trying to resist the difficulties and the regimes of that time and the protagonist was a brave young man who lived like a legend in the mountain. The song plays at the time this character dies at the end of the movie. The title of the song is "Μοιρολόι" aka "Mourning song" also known as "Ήλιε φονια" "Sun, you murderer". The song was also censored and the lyrics changed. Instead of the lyrics we see here "Down at the crossroads they killed the young man" the original lyrics went so: Παρασκευή Μεγάλη σταυρώσαν τον Χριστό Great Friday they crucified Christ However the newer version of the song without the christian implication seemed to fit more for the ancient Greek standards here not that the original lyrics were not powerful or important. On the contrary. Lyrics: Τάσος Λειβαδίτης (Tassos Livaditis) Music: Μίμης Πλέσσας (Mimis Plessas)

Now people speak on the lament of many characters of the Epic Cycle in particular of Achilles but what about the lament of his mother? How would she feel when suddenly the body of her sun was brought before her? Even if she was prepared for his death, I wonder indeed. So this song popped up in my brain.

THE MOTHER'S PAIN!

The implications of earth splitting open and mountains cracking by the pain of the person who sings did give me implications of laments of mothers in Greek mythology such as Demeter so in one way I imagined the pain of Thetis who already knew her son was mortal anyways would feel this pain deep (plus earth splitting open as image of the underworld too, again abduction of Persephone and all)

"Oh sun you murderer!" I so loved how PERFECTLY this fits because according to some versions Achilles was killed by Paris because Apollo (solar deity) helped him aim. Somehow Thetis lamenting against Apollo seemed great!

The Booted Eagle in Greek is also called Σταυραετός (Stavraetos -> Cross-bearing Eagle). A bird of prey who usually hunts in the morning. In Greek literature is a sign of pride and power (and of course the cross implications is also a signal of christian faith in Greece) it is also a sign of freedom which was used a lot as a parallel with Greek fighters especially young and vigorous ones. Also reminds me my conversation with @smokey07 where we said that Achilles resembles an eagle.

Morning Star also known in Greek as Αυγερινός (Avgerinos -> Of the dawn) or Αποσπερίτης (Aposperitis -> The one who finishes the night) is referred to the star that appears a little before dawn in the sky before the first light is often used in Greek literature and poetic language as a parallel to youth especially young men and especially those who died young because of the way the morning star appears for very little in the sky. (Yes now I definitely think Thetis might call Achilles "morning star")

"Down at the crossroads they killed the young man" Obviously referring to the death of Achilles amidst battle by the walls of Troy

Also "THEY killed him", Thetis lamenting to the gods on how the Trojans killed her son somehow rings in my brain!

Girls letting their hair loose is an ancient Greek custom of showing pain and sorrow during mourning, we already see that in mourning scenes so I imagined Thetis calling women for mourning like that

The image of someone grabbing the hair of his mourners (those who remember the dead!) to climb out of the oblivion of death not only is such a HAUNTING image but also seems to fit PERFECTLY for Achilles!

My other Greek song dedication on Penelope is here

[gemsofgreece]

Farya Faraji did it again! This is a great episode presenting most Greek music instruments, while providing a lot of context, information, jokes, history lessons and as always he debunks all the myths and stereotypes about Greek music. In this video he is interviewing Demetrios Dallas, a Greek American polymusician (if that's a term in English) who can literally play ALL.

Chapters:

Intro

Bagpipes and reeds

Flutes and clarinet

Bowed instruments

Lutes

Kanonaki and Santouri

Percussions

Context of Greek music

Regional diversity

Rhythmic patterns

It's always changing

Pitch in the modal traditions

Westernisation and revival

The last chapter is thematically the most important and Farya is at the moment the most well known person / youtuber who calls out this massive misconception about Greek music. You see there is this whole, extremely rigid notion in Western Europe that Greek music was western but it was orientalized because Greeks were conquered by the Turks and were turkified and lost their identity. It was exactly the opposite in fact. Greek music was what you 'd call "eastern" (yes, including ancient Greek music, yes, including Homer times, Pericles times, blah blah blah) and it actually started westernising itself ONLY by the mid to late 19th century, meaning after the independence from the Ottomans and the establishment of the modern Greek state and the reason was the severe trauma of this whole ordeal. After its independence Greece SO did not want to have anything to do with Turkey and the East in general that for the first time it oriented itself totally towards the west in most everything. Farya is a bit bitter about it (you know, being of Iranian descent and interested in folk music and all) but because he's great and very knowledgeable at what he does, there is also all this analysis about how (especially after the population exchange with Turkey in which Anatolian Greeks moved to Greece) the eastern element re-established itself in the country. It remained marginalised for a long time but as it happens with things that are essentially your identity, it resurfaced and almost claimed its natural place. However, the biggest talents and minds of Greek music in the 20th century were largely trained in western music tradition and the music legacy they left behind is so monumental that the Greek music will almost certainly never become again as eastern as it once was. And that's okay because what was produced by these people was so essentially and uniquely Greek that it is now part of the Greek heritage, an eastern foundation glossed in western styles and the product is our trademark modern music.

*I loved when mr Dallas says how he has noticed that this aversion for heritage is being changed by the young generation and how just 20 years ago he could not find anyone in Greece to make him an askomandura and now he picks up the phone and there are at least 20 instrument makers who can do the job. It's amazing and it's not that far from what I was saying some time ago that I see it's the young people who slowly slowly try to make a change.

[tosatanikofurby]

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Are you in for an amazing polyphonic scheme? Listen to this Christmas Kalanda of Thrace ❤️

[anemodarmenhh]

Μ' αγαπάει όπως αγαπάει τα ξενύχτια Όπως τις έρημες λεωφόρους τη νύχτα...

-λεξ

[gunsandcherries]

"Μ' αρέσει το σπίτι που φτιάξαμε" σου 'πα και γέλασα

Και λέω το σπίτι, μα δεν εννοώ το διαμέρισμα

-Bloody Hawk, Miami 2

[svveatervveather]

i made a little video combining one of my favourite songs with one of my favourite shows (show is skins (uk, all gens), song is πάρτυ (party) by billie kark)

[mhmeaggizeis]

Iratus- Μόνιμα Πρόστυχος (Eminem’s Superman cover)

[nataliliv]

Super Hit ‍ ♫♪♫ 🌹ℒℴѵℯ 🎶🎻...The first step in music

[loulouditoudromou]

Βγες λίγο είναι σημαντικό.

[orgismenh]

Από τότε που με πλήγωσες δεν είμαι κομπλέ δεν εμπιστεύομαι κανέναν και καμία ποτέ.

Wang - Μείνε για λίγο