Souravli – Greek Flutes and Pipes

This LP is dedicated to Greek instrumental folk music and especially to wind instruments such as the different types of pipes: flute, mandoura, gaida, pipiza, gavala.
In 1975 it was released in France by ‘Arion’ under the title ‘Les flutes Grecques’. In 1977 it was republished in Greece in the series ‘Great Solos’.
In 2008 it was included in a box-CD by MINOS EMI under the title ‘Mia zoi tragoudi’ along with the LPs ‘Farewell Holy One’, ‘By the flowering oleander’ and ‘A stroll with Domna Samiou’.

Production: EMIAΛ Columbia
Year of release: 1974
Type: LP

Collaborators

Production team

Domna Samiou (Research, Collection, Musical supervision)

Booklet team

Markos Ph. Dragoumis (Texts and commentaries)

Musicians

Clarinet

Kyriakos Kostoulas (Omorfoula, )

Flute

Aristides Vassilaris (Flute Solo (Pastoral Air), Balos from Smyrna, Omorfoula, Kostantis the Only Son, Flute Solo and Santur Solo, My Precious (Tzivaeri), )

Kaval

Theodoros Kekes (Paidoushka, )

Gaida (bagpipe)

Theodoros Kekes (Gaida Solo, Zonaradikos, )

Pipiza

Aristides Vassilaris (Into the vineyard, )

Flute (Mandoura)

Antonis Peristeris (Slow pentozalis, )

Violin

Alekos Pavlou-Arapakis (Flute Solo (Pastoral Air), Balos from Smyrna, )

Kanun

Nikos Stefanidis (Balos from Smyrna, Kanun Solo, Kostantis the Only Son, )

Santur

Aristides Moschos (Omorfoula, Flute Solo and Santur Solo, My Precious (Tzivaeri), )

Lute

Stavros Adrianos (Flute Solo (Pastoral Air), Balos from Smyrna, Omorfoula, Kostantis the Only Son, My Precious (Tzivaeri), )Petros Karbadakis (Slow pentozalis, )

Daouli (davul)

Ilias Vassilaris (Into the vineyard, Omorfoula, )

Goblet drum

Mathios Balabanis (Paidoushka, Balos from Smyrna, Zonaradikos, Kostantis the Only Son, )