GREECE: Legendary singer Demis Roussos has passed away VIDEO

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ANNA RF - WEEPING EYES by MIKIS THEODORAKIS

2013 HIMALAYA: ANNA RF feat AMIR BAR-DAVID & REVITAL KHALFON playing the piece 'weeping eyes' , composed by  MIKIS THEODORAKIS

"Despina" by Stamatis Spanoudakis

Listen to the amazing song "Despina" Stamatis Spanoudakis dedicated to the Virgin 

Mount Lebanon Choir: Arab Greek Orthodox Divine Liturgy

Psalm 33 I will bless the Lord - Greek Byzantine Music by NEKTARIA KARANTZI (amazing!)

Nektaria Karantzi is the well-known greek orthodox performer of Byzantine Music.

Erotiko (Me mia piroga) - Dimitris Mitropanos (beautiful greek song)

Love song (on a pirogue)

On a small pirogue you go and you're coming

the times the rainfall's getting pretty wild

you sail about the Visigothic lands humming

and by the hanging gardens you're beguiled

but bit by bit your wings you saw off are numbing

Your naked body with brine is all crusted

I brought you fresh water from Delphi's springs

in halves you told me your life will be busted

but fore I disowned you three times in my flings

the key to Heaven was completely rusted

Through the dust lands the caravan is crawling

as always chasing your sly shade around

How can a sheet make a mind start lolling?

How can the sea with only ropes be bound?

My love whom Antigone we were calling

What kind of nocturne took your light away

and in what galaxy can you be found

here is Attica a quarry all grey

and me just an unworthy shooting ground

where foreign soldiers train and curse all day

VANGELIS 12 o'clock 1975 (Best video ever seen)

Today it’s Christmas Eve! Christmas carols are sung on the mornings of Christmas Eve (VIDEO)

 

In Greek Orthodox tradition, carols are sung on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24), New Year's Eve (Dec. 31) and on Eve of Epiphany (Jan. 5). The lyrics for these days are different. Groups of children go from house to house in their neighbourhood singing the carols. The Singing is accompanied by the playing of triangles. 

Householders hear them through and reward the children with a small amount of money or with seasonal sweets. The lyrics shown below are the "standard" ones sung in cities, although there are several regional variations, which are typically longer and make use of local dialects.

The lyrics of the Christmas Carol follow.

GOOD EVENING NOBLEMEN

Good evening to you noblemen

And if it is your wish

In praise here at your mansion,

Of Jesus' birth I'll sing. 

Jesus Christ was born today

in town of Bethlehem

The skies above rejoicing

All nature satisfied.

T'was in a cave that he was born

And in a manger laid

The king of all the skies above

And maker of all things.

Angelic hosts are singing

All glory be to God

And holy be to shepherds

And to their faithfulness.

From Persia are arriving

Three magi with their gifts

The brightest star has led them there

No hour have they delayed.

Macedonian folk music, Greece: "Simpethera" means "mother-in-law" (great music)

A Greek traditional dance from Macedonia especially a dance of the region of Florina in Western Macedonia. This is a dance of the Greek wedding, in which the first dancer of the circle is the mother of the groom, that's why the dance has thee name "Simpethera". "Simpethera" means "mother-in-law".

Great song from a great woman: Melina Mercouri a tribute - Sinefiasmeni Kiriaki (eng: "Clouded sunday")

 

Great song from a great woman. "Clouded sunday" is the song of hope....song is similarity to a byzantine hymn known as "Akathistos ymnos"

Cloudy Sunday

Cloudy Sunday,

you're like my heart

that's always cloudy.

Christ and Holy Virgin!

You are a day like that day

in which I lost my joy.

Cloudy Sunday,

you make my heart bleed.

When I see you that rainy,

I can't rest even for a moment.

You make my life black

and I deeply sigh.

National anthem, somehow, for most of greeks! Tsitsanis wrote it during the II World War, talks about a dead person (executed from the Germans). 

Amazing Greek song: Chios (Greek Island) ships by Pantelis Thalassinos - Karavia Xiotika by Pantelis Thalassinos

Chios (Greek Island) ships by Pantelis Thalassinos

Σου πάει το φως του φεγγαριού

Moonlight suits you

τις νύχτες του καλοκαιριού

at summer nights 

απάνω σου όταν πέφτει

When it “falls” upon you

Σου πάει το φως και το πρωί

Light suits you also at the morning too

σαν κάνεις πρόβες τη ζωή

While you try-on life

σε θάλασσα καθρέφτη

On a mirror-sea

Στου κορμιού σου τ' ακρογιάλια

At your body’s seashores 

θα με φέρουν μαϊστράλια

northwestern breezes will carry me

και καράβια χιώτικα

As well as Chios* (Greek Island) ships

Και θα λάμπουνε για μένα

And they’ll shine for me 

τα φεγγάρια τα κρυμμένα

The hidden moons 

και τ' αλλιώτικα

And the different ones 

Το στόμα σου μοσχοβολιά

Your mouth (has) a sweet smell

από μαστίχα και φιλιά

from mastic* (a unique traditional product of Chios island) and kisses

τα μάτια σου ταξίδια

Your eyes (are) journeys

Για της αγάπης τους τρελούς

For love’s fools

ωραίους και αμαρτωλούς

(who are) beautiful and sinners

για ναυαγούς σανίδια

for shipwreckers, rescue boards

Στου κορμιού σου τ' ακρογιάλια

At your body’s seashores 

θα με φέρουν μαϊστράλια

northwestern breezes will carry me

και καράβια χιώτικα

as well as Chios* (Greek Island) ships

Και θα λάμπουνε για μένα

And they’ll shine for me 

τα φεγγάρια τα κρυμμένα

The hidden moons 

και τ' αλλιώτικα

And the different ones

I sotiria tis psihis ( The salvation of soul ) - Tania Tsanaklidou ( amazing greek song and we do english translation for all )

"The salvation of soul" by Tania Tsanaklidou 

We will find again the mornings in the country

while embracing in the bed

and it doesn’t matter that so early

we will be looking around without looking for anything

The materials of safeness

are sweet words recorded on tapes

for these which came late

but the heart took them

with the arms wide open

The salvation of soul is a great thing

like a relaxation journey

with a hidden wound

An empty beach to extend the step of our life

and it doesn’t matter

that so many kisses

before they got old were taken by the wave

And there, on the edge of the line

we gift our old pieces to those

which were so small

but they casted a shadow in order to look like palaces

Amazing song: Melina Mercouri - En méditerranée ( This is Greece! church, light, sea, freedom, history )

In the Mediterranean

In this tub where black-eyed

children play

There 're three continents

and centuries of History

Prophetes, Gods

the Messiah himself

There's a beautiful summer

that doesnt fear the fall

In the Mediterranean

 There's the smell of blood

floating on the borders

and countries, bruised

like so many open wounds

barbwired islands

imprisoning walls

There's a beautiful summer

that doesnt fear the fall

In the Mediterranean

There are olive trees

dying underneath the bombs

there where the first dove

appeared

Forgotten people

reaped by the war

There's a beautiful summer

that doesnt fear the fall

In the Mediterranean

 In this tub I played

when I was a kid

With my feet in the water

I was breathing the wind

My playmates

have become men now

Their brothers, who are

abandoned by the world

in the Mediterranean.

Heaven is mourning

above the Acropolis

and there isn't a word anymore

for "freedom" in Spanish

We can always dream

about Athens or Barcelona

There's a beautiful summer

that doesnt fear the fall

In the Mediterranean.

H Πόλις Εάλω - The City fell ( the most touching song and video)

 

Manolis Karandinis - To Zeibekiko Tis Evdokias - Solo Bouzouki (Amazing !)

Zeibekiko tis Evdokias is one of the most famous instrumental themes in Greek music. In Greek it should be translated as "Zeibekiko of Evdokia".

Zeibekiko tis Evdokias was composed by Manos Loizos in 1971 for the homonym movie, Evdokiaby Alexis Damianos. It is, along with Zorba the Greek, one of the most recognizable Greek melodies.

ΕΝΑ ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΙ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΓΑΠΗ - CHRISTIAN GREEK SONG ABOUT LOVE

Mitropanos Dimitris - Ego Giortazo Otan Ponao/I'm always celebrating when I suffer (beautiful Greek song)

I'm always celebrating when I suffer
And I wear white clothes when I mourn
I don't want to be pitied by others
And I pretend I don't love you

I didn't fit in people's logic
And love didn't treat me well
I am my best friend
And lonelines is my buddy

But there are some evenings
when I can stand it no more
I'm saying I will leave
I'm saying I will go crazy
And I demand you to come again
And I demand to have you
even for once
before I kill myself

I'm a mysterious story
I go against time
And I punish my heart
If I realise I'm suffering

Even if solitude breakes me in pieces
(I'm not saying) a word about you
My pride makes me fall asleep
And I'm awaken by lonelyness

Greek Legend and Singer Dimitris Mitropanos Dies at 64

 

One of Greece’s most recognizable voices, Dimitris Mitropanos died today, April 17 2012. Mitropanos suffered a heart attack and he was rushed to the hospital where doctors stabilized his condition, but then he suffered a pulmonary edema from which he died.

Mitropanos was born on April 2nd 1948 in the city of Trikala in northwest Thessaly where he lived until the age of 16. He began his musical career in 1964.

Mitropanos worked with some of the best known Greek composers, such as Mikis Theodorakis,Stavros Xarhakos, Madra Mandicencio, Manos Hadjidakis, Marios Tokas and Thanos Mikroutsikos,and had been one of the top performers of Greek popular music for over four decades.

Mitropanos was known to be a heavy smoker, which is evident from the way his voice has progressively changed over the course of his career. Recently the Greek singer was hospitalized with serious health problems but he was feeling better after his exit from the hospital.

From an early age, Mitropanos, worked summers to help his family financially. First as a waiter in his uncle’s restaurant and later at ribbon cutting wood. After the third grade of junior high, in 1964, he went to Athens to live with his uncle. Before finishing high school he began working as a singer.

At the same age, after the encouragement of Grigoris Bithikotsis, whom he met at a gathering of his uncle’s company, where he sang, he visited Columbia. There, Takis Lampropoulos introduced him το Giorgos Zampetas, with whom will work alongside at “Ksimeromata”. Dimitris Mitropanos considers Giorgos Zampetas as a great teacher and a second father to himself. As stated, “Zambetas is the only man in music which helped me without expecting anything. With all my other colleagues they got something and gave something“.

In 1967, Mitropanos records his first album with the song “Thessaloniki”. This followed the recording of “Chameni Paschalia”, a song that was censored by the Greek military junta thus never released.

In the course mapped out on the street of folk art song, 1972 is a milestone. The composer Dimos Moutsis and the lyricist and poet Manos Eleftheriou release “Agios Fevrouarios” with Mitropanos and Petris Salpeas as the song’s performers, marking a milestone in Greek music. In July 1999, Mitropanos and Moutsis will meet again on stage at the “Odeon” with Dimitra Galani and the soprano Julia Souglakou for two nights at the Athens Festival. The concerts were recorded live and released in a double CD two months later. George Katsaros’s “The Road to Cythera” and Giorgos Hatzinasios’s “Ta Sinaxaria” follow suit, projects of high quality with a high profile in Greek society.

In a long career in the Greek music industry, Dimitris Mitropanos collaborated with leading artists of the Laïko and Éntekhno music. Giorgos Zampetas, Mikis Theodorakis, Dimos Moutsis, Apostolos Kaldaras, Takis Mousafiris, Christos Nikolopoulos (“Pare Apofaseis” with lyrics by Lefteris Papadopoulos), Yannis Spanos were composers with whom Mitropanos collaborated, building a career intertwined with the Laïko tradition, until the late 1980s.

In 2010, Mitropanos performed a North American Tour for the first time in over 10 years since his last visit to the United States. During his tour, he performed a concert on July 1, 2010 at Radio City Music Hall in front of a near capacity crowd.

He performed many of his famous songs that were written in the earlier stages of his career as well more recent songs that continue to be popular among Greeks, such as “Ρόζα,” “Πάντα γελαστοί,”Tα Λαδαδικα,” and many more. Mitropanos concluded his concert with a passionate performance of his famous song “Αλίμονο,” with all in attendance giving him a standing ovation as he walked off the stage.

Following his performance at Radio City, Mitropanos

cancelled the remainder of his North American tour as he felt ill and could not finish his tour.

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Christos Anesti - Irene Papas and Vangelis (so beautiful and touching music and video)

Happy and Blessed Easter from Christians to the entire world . May it bring peace and forgiveness to the universe.  

Kalo Pascha, Kali Anastasi!

 

The music is by Vangelis born in Volos, Greece.The video begins at Meteora, Greece, at a monastery and is sung by the famous Greek actress Irene Papas with passion and authenticity. The frescoes show the bullet holes from Nazi atrocities.Finally the beauty of Greek countryside and springtime comes through in the gorgeous time lapse photography. 

Christos Anesti!