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Are you in for an amazing polyphonic scheme? Listen to this Christmas Kalanda of Thrace ❤️
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Να Μ’Αγαπάς- Παύλος Σιδηρόπουλος
#greek posts#greek quotes#greek tumblr#ellinika#greek music#ελληνικό ταμπλερ#ελληνικό ποστ#μουσικη#παύλος σιδηρόπουλος#i love this song
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❤️☘️🍒 Have a nice evening ❤️☘️🍒
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Μη με παίρνεις τηλέφωνο, πάρε με αγκαλιά
#ελληνικά#greek#ελληνικα#καλλιτέχνης#art#greek posts#artists on tumblr#ερωτας#greek tumblr#love quotes#greek quotes#greece#greek aesthetic#greek blog#greek poems#greek rap#greek music#love#telephone#romance#romantic#γκρικ στιχακια#γκρικ τεξτ#γκρικ ποστ#γκρικ κουοτς#γκρεεκ#γρεεκ ποστς#γρεεκ κουοτς#γρεεκ quotes#γκρεκζ
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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.
#orgismenh#greek posts#greek tumblr#greek status#σκατοποσταρω#greek quotes#greek lyrics#ελληνικα στιχακια#greek music#live concert#bloody hawk#live rizoupoli#ολη μου η ζωη ενα κουπλε του bloody#greek hip hop lyrics#greek hip hop#greek rap lyrics#greek rap#τι ζήσαμε
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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.
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Μ' αγαπάει όπως αγαπάει τα ξενύχτια Όπως τις έρημες λεωφόρους τη νύχτα...
-λεξ
#νυχτερινες σκεψεις#νύχτα#νυχτα#αθήνα#λεξ#λεξαρος#λεξ ορμα τους#γρεεκ τυμβλρ#γρεεκζ#γρεεκ φωτο#γρεεκ ποστς#γρεεκ#greek lyrics#greek posts#greek music#greek tumblr#greek quotes#greece#ελλάδα#ελληνικά#ελληνικό ταμπλερ#ελληνικο χιπ χοπ#σκέψεις#σκεψεις
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Remembering this traditional Greek song made me think of Penelope:
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Sea,oh sea the seamen, my beloved sea don't strike them with your waves, my beloved sea and bring back my little bird * Rose water, become rose water, my beloved sea and sprinkle their course, my beloved sea my beloved sea you are my love and pain * Sea and salty water I can't forget about you * Sea, oh sea, you have drowned, oh, no oh no the maiden's husband my beloved sea you are my love and pain * And the maiden, and the maiden is young, oh no oh no and black clothes don't suit her, my beloved sea blow my beloved Northwest Wind * Sea, I embark, for you I stay awake at night Sea and salty water I can't forget about you
Now this song probably originated from the Aegean sea, possibly in Kalymnos, an island with tradition of fishing sponges. The men that were doing this job oftentimes left in the summer for a long time traveling often all the way till North Africa. They would freedive often even 50 meters below the surface to catch sponges and their job was expremely difficult and dangerous. Often they died either from nitrogen narcosis effects or attacked by sealife or even dying in sea. Thus the song speaks on a woman singing for the sea to bring back her husband, brother, fiance etc back. The traditional song has many variations to the lyrics depending on the singer, the area etc.
Now the term "little bird" (πουλάκι) is a nickname used in greek to show a tender relationship with someone. It indicates your beloved one; family or lover etc
The term I translate as "my beloved sea" is the nickname of the word "sea" (θάλασσα -> thalassa) which is θαλασσάκι (thalassaki). As a term and nickname it also means "little sea" but is also used tenderly to speak more on something you love so I thought it would be more fitting to say "beloved sea" than "little sea"
Likewise the word μεράκι (meraki) is not translatable exactly. It means something you do from your heart or with love and care. It also means love and care for something. However when spoken more sadly it also means some love that causes you sadness and pain this is why I translated it as "my love and pain" in here.
The song speaks on a woman being young and "black clothes do not suit her" aka it is a pity for a young man to die and a woman wear mourning clothes at young age (plus in small villages it kinda was a tradition for a woman once widowed never to marry again although the tradition is not followed to its totality by every person)
The clips are from an old dramatic movie called "The girl with the black clothes" starring Elli Lambeti and Dimitris Horn
#greek mythology#tagamemnon#the odyssey#odyssey#homeric poems#penelope#penelope of sparta#penelope of ithaca#traditional greek songs#greek music#greek tumblr#odypen#odysseus and penelope#odysseus x penelope#homer odyssey#greek culture#Youtube
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"Μ' αρέσει το σπίτι που φτιάξαμε" σου 'πα και γέλασα
Και λέω το σπίτι, μα δεν εννοώ το διαμέρισμα
-Bloody Hawk, Miami 2
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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)
#this is like my second time ever trying to make a video like this it was fun but way more time consuming than i anticipated omg#mine#music video#skins uk#billie kark#greek tumblr#edits#greek music#2014 grunge#2014 aesthetic#effy stonem#cassie ainsworth#cassie skins#skins#skins effy#skins gen 1#skins gen 2#skins gen 3#mv#skins 2007#skins cassie#skins cook#skins chris#skins sid#skins tony#tony stonem#sid jenkins#chris miles#skins michelle#skins jal
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Music with olive tree leaves! The most Greek thing ever!
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Iratus- Μόνιμα Πρόστυχος (Eminem’s Superman cover)
#greek posts#greek quotes#greek tumblr#quotes#greek blog#greek music#greek lyrics#greek rap#rap#hip hop#greek hip hop#iratus#iratus lyrics#song lyrics
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Super Hit ♫♪♫ 🌹ℒℴѵℯ 🎶🎻...The first step in music
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