A Stroll with Domna Samiou

This is the product of an ‘alternative’ collaboration. After a personal invitation from Manos Hadjidakis, Domna Samiou publishes in Seiros this LP with songs which are for the first time brought together in a record. She thanks him 'for giving her the opportunity and freedom to present this audio material according to her will, without any intervention'. Domna already moves towards different kind of publications: she will never collaborate again with a commercial record label.

Cover photo: Celebrations on Pentecost day at Kaisariani, Athens. George Cochran, Esq. Wanderings in Greece, vol. II, London, Henry Colburn, 1837. Collection The Gennadius Library – The American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

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 Souravli.

Production: Sirius
Year of release: 1986
Type: LP

Collaborators

Production team

Domna Samiou (Research, Collection, Musical supervision)

Singers

Domna Samiou (Katsantonis, Your Eyes, My Eyes, My Love Is Getting Married, Kanaria, When You Want to Get Married Stranger, I Bid Farewell to My Neighbourhood, Come All You Birds, A Walk in Sergiani, )

Choir

Mixed choir (When You Want to Get Married Stranger, Kanaria, Your Eyes, My Eyes, )

Musicians

Clarinet

Petros Athanasopoulos-Kalyvas (A Walk in Sergiani, I Bid Farewell to My Neighbourhood, Karsilamas Dance, )Napoleon Saadedin (Katsantonis, )

Tsambouna

Theologos Gryllis (When You Want to Get Married Stranger, )

Violin

Yiorgos Koros (A Walk in Sergiani, Come All You Birds, Syrtos Dance of Kythnos, When You Want to Get Married Stranger, Kanaria, Karsilamas Dance, My Love Is Getting Married, )Alekos Pavlou-Arapakis (I Bid Farewell to My Neighbourhood, Your Eyes, My Eyes, )Miltiades Bertodoulos (Katsantonis, )

Santur

Tassos Diakogiorgis (Syrtos Dance of Kythnos, Your Eyes, My Eyes, )

Oud

Petros Athanasopoulos-Kalyvas (Kanaria, Karsilamas Dance, My Love Is Getting Married, )

Lute

Vassilis Katrakos (A Walk in Sergiani, I Bid Farewell to My Neighbourhood, When You Want to Get Married Stranger, Karsilamas Dance, My Love Is Getting Married, )Mathios Ventouris (Syrtos Dance of Kythnos, Kanaria, Your Eyes, My Eyes, )Dimitris Saadedin (Katsantonis, )

Daouli (davul)

Michalis Klapakis (I Bid Farewell to My Neighbourhood, My Love Is Getting Married, )

Goblet drum

Michalis Klapakis (A Walk in Sergiani, Come All You Birds, Syrtos Dance of Kythnos, When You Want to Get Married Stranger, Kanaria, Karsilamas Dance, )

Tambourine

Saadedin Petros (Katsantonis, )

Spoons

Domna Samiou (Your Eyes, My Eyes, )

Informant (source of the song)

Yannis Tsirigotis (I Bid Farewell to My Neighbourhood, My Love Is Getting Married, )Yannis Nikolaidis (Karsilamas Dance, )Yannis Parisis (Your Eyes, My Eyes, )

References

  • PublicationsFotis Apergis20/05/1987NewspaperEleftherotypia

New and old popular songs and traditional song

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