Vangelis Karipis

Vangelis Karipis was born in Athens in 1971. He became involved with traditional Greek music from an early age, studying oud as well as Byzantine music. From the age of sixteen he started teaching himself percussion. He followed seminars in ethnic percussion with important musicians such as Tricy Sankaran, Joe Santos, Jamey Haddad and Alfredo Reyes.

He has worked with many Greek composers and singers, and has participated in many concerts and international festivals (Womad, Sfinx, Meinz). He has collaborated with internationally renown soloists, both in concerts and in recordings.

In 2004 he represented Greece at the Medimuses international percussion convention in Tunis. He also participated in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Athens Olympics.

In 1997 he established, together with Andreas Pappas and Petros Kourtis, the percussion group “Krotala”, with which since they perform concerts and participate in festivals in Greece and abroad.

His records to date are Krousta in collaboration with Andreas Pappas and Yiorgos Gevgelis, and Krotala with Andreas Papas and Petros Kourtis.

Songs

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  • SongMacedoniaKavala, NikisianiLove Song

A Blue Dove

  • Μια γαλάζια περιστέρα ⬥ A blue dove, oh, a blue dove flew by. Flying from mountain to mountain she was searching for her mate. My love so far away, tell me, my love in a foreign land, how I can wait? Translated by Michael Eleftheriou
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  • SongMacedoniaHistorical Song

A Brave Young Lad Set Out

  • Λεβέντης εξεκίνησε ⬥ A brave young lad set out for Macedonia, where Pavlos men was gathering, men in whom the spirit of Twenty One lived on. – Boys, Kastoria is calling for our help, Kastoria and all of Macedonia. Grevena has bid us come. I’d bridge every gorge and every [...]
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  • SongCycladesParosFable Song (Ballad)

A Fair Maid Did Sing

  • Μια λυγερή τραγούδησε ⬥ A fair maid did sing out in the moonlight, but the gentle wind took her song and swept it out to sea and every boat that heard it reefed its sails save a boat from Sfakiá with its Cretan crew that could neither reef sails nor [...]
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  • SongCentral GreeceEuboea, Agios DimitriosFable Song (Ballad)

A Fair Maid Did Sing

  • Κόρη ξανθή τραγούδησε ⬥ A fair maid did sing upon a rope bridge, but the bridge collapsed, and the river stood still. And the river spirit came to her and asked: – Girl, if you are still a maid, may you never know a man, and if you’ve children and [...]
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  • SongPropontisNicomedeaChildren's Song

A Little Seedling

  • Ένα μικρό φιντάνι ⬥ A little seedling a seedling, a little seedling sprouts forth and grows to give us fruit and flowers. A little water, just a drop to wash down the goodness so it won’t wane, so all will not be lost. So the leaves won’t wilt and the [...]
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  • SongAsia MinorErythraea, MeliFable Song (Ballad)

A Little Shorty (Meli, Erythraea)

  • Ένας κοντός κοντούτσικος (Mελί Eρυθραίας) ⬥ A little shorty, a short little man, aides pouli mou aides, had a beautiful wife and the whole neighbourhood, aman aman, was jealous, the whole country was jealous of him and none more than his own mother. A pasha, too, was jealous of his beautiful wife [...]
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  • SongSporadesSkiathosFable Song (Ballad)

A Little Shorty (Skiathos)

  • Ένας κοντός κοντούτσικος (Σκιάθος) ⬥ A short little man had a beautiful wife. The whole neighbourhood was jealous, and all the land and a pasha, a pasha envied him, too. He taxed him hard, imposed a load too heavy to bear. He sold vineyards heavy with grapes and fields swaying [...]
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  • SongAsia MinorFable Song (Ballad)

A Maid from Evripο

  • Μια κόρη από την Εύριπου ⬥ A maid from Evripo sought to set sail, she sought to make passage. She sought to make the passage to the far shore and paid a hundred Venetian sequins, a hundred gold pieces to be taken to her homeland and four hundred and four [...]
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  • SongPropontisPeramosFable Song (Ballad)

A Maid Would Have Her Way

  • Κουράσιν εβουλήθηκε ⬥ A maid would go would go a-strolling and then go back again. She called her neighbours together yes, by Saint George and the young girls, too. And she went down to the shore save me, Saint George, save me they went down to the sea. They saw [...]
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  • SongPropontisNicomedea, KatirliFable Song (Ballad)

A Prince Is to Be Wed

(Evil In-Laws)

  • Αρχοντογιός παντρεύεται ⬥ A prince is to be wed to a dark-eyed bride whose folk sought refuge here. His bride-to-be’s from uprooted stock, little refugee I weep for thee. When his mother heard the news she uprooted trees, dearest dark-eyed maid, she uprooted trees, uprooted maid I weep for thee. [...]
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Records

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  • AlbumCD, Digital release1999Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Domna Samiou At Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall

This CD contains the live recording of the tribute concert for Domna Samiou’s seventieth birthday, at The Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall, in 1998. Some of her closest friends and collaborators were invited as guests: Lykourgos Angelopoulos, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, and the distinguished Turkish musicians Fahrettin Çimenli and Volkan […]
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  • AlbumDVD2007Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Domna Samiou Sings Songs of Nature and of Love

This videotaped stage performance, held at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on 11th of October 2005, includes songs and rituals related to the cycle of the agricultural year, rewarding human labour and telling of man’s relationship to nature.
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  • AlbumCD, Digital release2017Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Epic Songs of Warriors and Heroes

The publication includes 30 songs, inspired by the popular tradition of story-telling, relating tales of brave warriors, both high-ranked lords, and lowly soldiers. Centering on heroic Digenis, they originate from all parts of Greece. The publication also contains a detailed booklet analyzing the history surrounding the songs, and their interpretation. […]
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  • AlbumCD, Digital release2008Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Folk Fables in Song

In fables, fragments of ancient myths are preserved. On this CD, Domna Samiou & her collaborators sing tales of the fabulous and the fantastic combining the real world with the supernatural and narrating stories, often tragic, which might once have occurred – or could do so one day – however […]
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  • AlbumCD, Digital release2008Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

I Tread the Earth Gently

This CD is the proof of what an enthusiast Maecenas can achieve! Here Domna collected some of her most favourable songs: slow and tranquil songs, melodious and sad; songs of sorrow and of love, of parting and of loved ones far away. These songs are rarely, if ever, included in […]
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  • AlbumCD, Digital release1995Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Kaneloriza

This CD includes songs and tunes in ‘7 beats to the bar’ (the rhythm of kalamatianos dances) and in ‘9 beats to the bar’ (the rhythm of zeibekikos and karsilamas dances) with lyrics and melodies both erotic and sorrowful. (barcode: 5204910000425)
Music from Greece: Δομνα Σαμίου
  • AlbumCD2018Caprice

Music from Greece: Domna Samiou

Reissue of the Caprice album Grekisk folkmusik (Ξενιτεμένο μου πουλí) on a CD with 9 extra tracks, and a comprehensively informative booklet about Greek folk music and the woman behind this production – Domna Samiou.
Τα παλαιά μου βάσανα
  • AlbumDigital release2022Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

My Old Torments

Songs of Asia Minor by Domna Samiou. Live recording from the concert ‘Songs of Asia Minor with Domna Samiou’ at the Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall, on 8/3/2005. Traditional songs from the western coasts of Asia Minor, Propontis, Constantinople, Pontus and Cappadocia.
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  • AlbumCD, Digital release2006Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Of Nature and of Love

Through these songs, Domna Samiou pays tribute to how man, in years gone by, worshipped nature as the measure of ultimate beauty, order and harmony, and treated it with awe rather than with the destructive fury of today. The down-to-earth love of nature in these folk songs doesn’t derive from […]
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  • AlbumCD, Digital release2002Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Songs of Dame Sea

The wealth of Greek traditional music has been enriched by every aspect of maritime tradition – by its values, virtues and charm – as is amply demonstrated by this wonderful collection of songs. They embrace the ways people have sung, since Ulysses, about the temptations of the sea, its risks, […]
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Concerts

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  • Concert
  • 11/10/2005

Domna Samiou Sings Songs of Nature and of Love

Traditional songs and events that follow the course of the cycle of the year. Starting from the autumn, which marks the beginning of the working and ecclesiastical year, a harvest revival, events of the twelve days of Christmas, Easter festivities, Saint John of Kledon customs, and summer festive events.
Μικρασιάτικα τραγούδια με τη Δόμνα Σαμίου
  • Concert
  • 08 & 09/03/2005

Songs of Asia Minor with Domna Samiou

An Asia Minor tribute concert. A tribute to the muse of the historical space of the Greek East. Traditional songs from the western coast of Asia Minor, the Propontis, Constantinople, Pontus and Cappadocia and two Byzantine hymns from the musical tradition of the Orthodox Church. A musical variety that is […]
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  • Concert
  • 29/10/1998

The Known and the Unknown Domna

A great concert called ‘The known and unknown Domna’, part of the series ‘Bridges’; a tribute concert for her seventieth birthday. Some of her closer friends and collaborators were invited as guests: Lykourgos Angelopoulos, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Eleftheria Arvanitaki as well as the two distinguished Turkish musicians Fahrettin Çimenli and Volkan […]
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