Folk & Traditional / Greece

**Deluxe edition with high gloss laminated gatefold cover, printed insert and download code.** Teranga Beat proudly presents Ormenion, a record by the group Evritiki Zygia. Ormenion is a historical region that dates back to the Byzantine Empire. It is the northernmost inhabited region of Greece, where the last railway station of the country is located. During the 1920's it was inhabited by refugees coming from the North and Eastern Thrace. Immigration is central to the history of the region of T…

** 2021 Stock ** The duo of Tasos Stamou and Thodoris Ziarkas bring back the improvisational element to the old Greek rebetiko style and expand it towards other avant-garde musical genres. Acoustic hacked South Mediterranean tunes and noises. Live recorded in Clapton Sessions, the Depot, London and in K.E.T venue in Athens in 2018. Thodoris Ziarkas: parlour guitar. Tasos Stamou: Greek bouzouki & Turkish baglama saz, vocals.

** 2021 Stock ** The duo of Tasos Stamou and Thodoris Ziarkas bring back the improvisational element to the old Greek rebetiko style and expand it towards other avant-garde musical genres. Acoustic hacked South Mediterranean tunes and noises. Thodoris Ziarkas: parlour guitar. Tasos Stamou: Greek bouzouki & Turkish baglama saz, vocals.

** 2021 Stock. Includes a 12 page color booklet with rare photographs, full lyrics, and extensive notes ** Marika "Politissa" Frantzeskopoulou was a Greek singer from Constantinople, reknowned for her precise, fluid and graceful performances and depth of feeling. Backed by some of the best musicians of the era on lyra, violin, oud, kanonaki and guitar, Marika’s repertoire and techniques drew from Byzantine and Ottoman musical traditions. She possessed an ability to devastate her audience through…

"Roza Eskenazi was a giant of rembetika, the urban Greek music of Ottoman origin associated with the poor underclass. Eskenazi's life was extraordinary: born Sarah Spinazi to a poor Sephardic Jewish family in Constantinople, probably in the mid-1890s, after an itinerant childhood, she began dancing at the Grand Hotel Theatre in Thessaloniki. She eloped with the wealthy Yiannis Zardinidis around 1913, with whom she bore a son, but after his untimely death in 1917, she placed the son in the care o…

Apocalyptic rebetika recordings from the 1930s through to late '50s. Songs of sorrow, poverty, loss and the general end of this god forsaken planet.

**2019 stock** "Third Man Records is proud to present a truly rare musical oddity -- a two LPs collection of primal and unhinged Greek village music that at times sounds more like free jazz or doom folk, feral and trance-like as it is. After years of research, fieldwork and collecting, Christopher King -- Grammy-winning producer, sound-engineer, curator and writer -- has gathered together from his private 78 rpm archive the most mind expanding and libido inducing song and dance music from the ru…

Dine Doneff's Balkan-jazz folk opera on the abandoned village of Rousilvo (Xanthogeia) in northern Greece, mixing an ensemble, the Camea Quartet and archive voices. Recorded April 2004 at Agrotikon, Thessaloniki; neRED/1.

Fifth ECM album by Greek singer Savina Yannatou with Primavera en Salonico and Tunisian singer Lamia Bedioui: traditional and early songs about water from the Mediterranean, the Arab world, Scotland and the US. Recorded at Sierra Studios, Athens, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Maria Farantouri (voice) and Cihan Türkoğlu (saz, kopuz, voice) with Anja Lechner, Meri Vardanyan, Christos Barbas and İzzet Kızıl: traditional songs from Greece, Turkey, Lebanon and Armenia and new songs, recorded June 2017 at Sierra Studios, Athens.

Fourth ECM album by Greek singer Savina Yannatou with Primavera en Salonico: songs and hymns of the communities of Thessaloniki, arranged by Kostas Vomvolos. Recorded February 2014 at Sierra Studios, Athens; produced by Manfred Eicher.

Third ECM album by Greek singer Savina Yannatou with the Thessaloniki ensemble Primavera en Salonico: traditional songs from Armenia, the Balkans, Kazakhstan, Italy and Greece, arranged mostly by Kostas Vomvolos. Recorded October 2007, Sierra Studios, Athens.