The Earth’s Three Bounties

Wheat, wine, oil
He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for people to cultivate· bringing forth food from the earth: wine that gladdens human hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread that sustains their hearts (Psalm 104, 15)

Production: Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association
Type: Digital release
Sponsors: John F. Kostopoulos Foundation - ALPHA BANK

Collaborators

Production team

Domna Samiou (Research, Collection, Musical supervision)Daphne Djaferis (Production management)Tasia Papanikolaou (Secretarial support)Socrates Sinopoulos (Musical advisor)

Sound team

Yiorgos Karyotis (Sound engineer)Akis Paschalakis (Sound engineer)Yiorgos Karyotis (Sound editing)Socrates Sinopoulos (Sound editing)

Singers

Domna Samiou (At the Mountain of St. Theodoros, Yannis Abandoned Banditry, He’s Not Good for You, Vergo, Couplets of the Olive Tree, Lambro, In Vervena, in Doliana, Three Black-Eyed Girls, A Widow Sold Wine, Fortunate and Lucky, Into the Vineyard, )Vangelis Dimoudis (Who Planted You, My Vineyard, Between Two Mountains, )Michalis Zambas (My Broad-Leaved Vine, One Morning, Stavroula, The Harvest Has Ripened, )Katerina Papadopoulou (Down at Agia Marini, Sweet Wine in Naoussa, The Pine Tree, )Ilias Andreoulakis (Couplets for Raki, Couplets of the Olive Tree, )Yannis Monogios (Grape Harvesting (Vendemma), )Ploutarchos Koussoulas (Fortunate and Lucky, A Widow Sold Wine, Yannis Abandoned Banditry, )Anthi Panourgia-Prassou (Fortunate and Lucky, A Widow Sold Wine, A Slender Girl Is to Be Wed, Yannis Abandoned Banditry, )Thanassis Gekas (My Master Drinks Tonight, All Day Long I Reaped, )Vassilis Karkantzos (My Golden Solace, )Yannis Eleftheriou (Frabika, )Michalis Tterlikkas (The Abduction of Levandis’ Daughter by Digenis, )Fragiskos Tziotakis (Amidst the Barley Field, )Irini Tziotaki (Amidst the Barley Field, )

Choir

Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association Choir (Song of the Grape Harvest, Whose Is the Cup?, Kostas Is Drinking the Wine, Sweet Wine in Naoussa, I Dug This Earth, He’s Not Good for You, Vergo, )

Musicians

Clarinet

Thodoris Georgopoulos (Into the Vineyard, My Broad-Leaved Vine, Three Black-Eyed Girls, My Master Drinks Tonight, In Vervena, in Doliana, Sweet Wine in Naoussa, One Morning, Stavroula, Couplets of the Olive Tree, The Harvest Has Ripened, At the Mountain of St. Theodoros, )Alexandros Arkadopoulos (A Widow Sold Wine, A Slender Girl Is to Be Wed, )

Flute

Thodoris Georgopoulos (Who Planted You, My Vineyard, Down at Agia Marini, Lambro, He’s Not Good for You, Vergo, )

Gaida (bagpipe)

Yiorgos Makris (Between Two Mountains, )

Tsambouna

Fragiskos Tziotakis (Balos from Kythnos, )

Violin

Nikos Oikonomidis (Into the Vineyard, My Broad-Leaved Vine, Song of the Grape Harvest, Sousta from Tilos, Three Black-Eyed Girls, My Master Drinks Tonight, My Golden Solace, Karsilamas Dance from Sokia (Söke), In Vervena, in Doliana, Sweet Wine in Naoussa, One Morning, Stavroula, A Slender Girl Is to Be Wed, Couplets of the Olive Tree, The Harvest Has Ripened, All Day Long I Reaped, At the Mountain of St. Theodoros, )Fragiskos Tziotakis (Amidst the Barley Field, )

Cretan lyra

Ilias Andreoulakis (Couplets for Raki, Couplets of the Olive Tree, )

Constantinopolitan lyra

Socrates Sinopoulos (Who Planted You, My Vineyard, Down at Agia Marini, The Pine Tree, )

Constantinopolitan lute

Socrates Sinopoulos (Into the Vineyard, Who Planted You, My Vineyard, My Broad-Leaved Vine, Down at Agia Marini, Three Black-Eyed Girls, My Master Drinks Tonight, My Golden Solace, Karsilamas Dance from Sokia (Söke), In Vervena, in Doliana, Sweet Wine in Naoussa, One Morning, Stavroula, A Slender Girl Is to Be Wed, Couplets of the Olive Tree, The Harvest Has Ripened, At the Mountain of St. Theodoros, )

Lute

Kostas Philippidis (Into the Vineyard, Who Planted You, My Vineyard, My Broad-Leaved Vine, Down at Agia Marini, Sousta from Tilos, A Widow Sold Wine, Three Black-Eyed Girls, My Master Drinks Tonight, My Golden Solace, Karsilamas Dance from Sokia (Söke), In Vervena, in Doliana, Sweet Wine in Naoussa, Lambro, One Morning, Stavroula, A Slender Girl Is to Be Wed, Couplets of the Olive Tree, The Harvest Has Ripened, He’s Not Good for You, Vergo, All Day Long I Reaped, The Pine Tree, At the Mountain of St. Theodoros, )Stelios Petrakis (Couplets for Raki, Couplets of the Olive Tree, )Yiorgos Papaioannou (Balos from Kythnos, Amidst the Barley Field, )

Daouli (davul)

Kostas Meretakis (Between Two Mountains, Sweet Wine in Naoussa, The Harvest Has Ripened, At the Mountain of St. Theodoros, )Vangelis Karipis (A Widow Sold Wine, Lambro, A Slender Girl Is to Be Wed, He’s Not Good for You, Vergo, )

Goblet drum

Kostas Meretakis (Who Planted You, My Vineyard, My Broad-Leaved Vine, Down at Agia Marini, Couplets for Raki, My Master Drinks Tonight, My Golden Solace, Karsilamas Dance from Sokia (Söke), One Morning, Stavroula, Couplets of the Olive Tree, Couplets of the Olive Tree, All Day Long I Reaped, )Vangelis Karipis (In Vervena, in Doliana, )

Bendir (frame drum)

Vangelis Karipis (The Pine Tree, )

Tambourine

Vangelis Karipis (Into the Vineyard, Three Black-Eyed Girls, )

Zil bells

Kostas Meretakis (Karsilamas Dance from Sokia (Söke), )

Guitar

Socrates Sinopoulos (Song of the Grape Harvest, )

Informant (source of the song)

Maria Tserkezi (Who Planted You, My Vineyard, )Dimitra Markoudi (Who Planted You, My Vineyard, )Dimitris Vlaskos (Down at Agia Marini, )Anthi Panourgia-Prassou (Fortunate and Lucky, A Widow Sold Wine, A Slender Girl Is to Be Wed, )Angeliki (Koula) Aneziri (My Master Drinks Tonight, In Vervena, in Doliana, )Marigo Bouziou (I Dug This Earth, )Sofia Kounia (The Harvest Has Ripened, )Dimos Aneziris (He’s Not Good for You, Vergo, )Yannis Parisis (All Day Long I Reaped, )

See also

  • SongCycladesNaxos, ApeiranthosWork Song

Frabika

  • Καλοδουλέψετε τσ’ ελιές να βγάλομε το λάδι ⬥ Studio recording, 2006.
  • SongPeloponneseArcadia, Astros

I Dug This Earth

  • Τούτ' τη γης την έσκαψα ⬥ Studio recording, 2006. Domna Samiou taped the song in Astros, Peloponnese, sung by Marigo Bouziou, in 2003.
  • SongCentral GreeceFthiotida, AmphicleiaWedding Song

A Slender Girl Is to Be Wed

  • Παντρεύεται μια λυγερή ⬥ Studio recording, 2006. Domna Samiou learned the song from Anthi Panourgia-Prassou, in 2003.
  • SongCrete

Couplets of the Olive Tree

  • Δίστιχα για την ελιά ⬥ Studio recording, 2006.
  • SongEastern AegeanLesvos

Couplets of the Olive Tree

  • Δίστιχα για την ελιά ⬥ Studio recording, 2006.