Antonis Apergis

Antonis Apergis was born in 1963 in the suburb of Nikea in Piraeus. A composer as well as a song writer, he also plays the guitar, oud, kanun and double bass. He has collaborated with some of the leading figures of contemporary Greek music. Following his first record, a solo recording of oud, he collaborated with Kostas Pavlides, composing the music and lyrics for two records, Vgale ftera kai peta and Poia ge kai poia patrida.

He carried out the musical arrangement for records by Petros Dourdoubakes and the ‘Opisthodromiki Kompania’. In recent years he has performed his music and songs with his own group. His recordings include the orchestral Ikaros, To Stefani (with Sofia Assyhidou on vocals) and Nyhta me asteria (with Lizzeta Kalimeri and Kostas Pavlides on vocals).

Songs

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  • SongPropontisFable Song (Ballad)Table Song

A Maid Was Singing

(The Wife Scorned)

  • Κοράσιν ετραγούδαγε ⬥ A maid was singing in a high-walled palace. The wind swept her voice out to sea and every ship that heard it reefed its sails. Save one love-lorn ship that knows what friendship means that neither gathering its sheets nor lowering them trimmed its sails and set [...]
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  • SongPropontisFable Song (Ballad), Immigration SongTable Song

A Maid Was Singing Longingly

  • Κοράσιν ετραγούδαγε ⬥ A maid was singing longingly inside a high-walled palace, her voice was caught up on the breeze and carried off to seaward, and all the ships that heard that voice at once let go their halyards. [Save one that holds friendship most dear and knows a love-lorn [...]
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  • SongPropontisSea and Sailors Song

I Wish for All the Months in Turn

  • Όλους τους μήνες τους θέλω ⬥ I wish for all the months in turn, await them all with longing, but not, o not, the month of March when folks embark on travel. That month fits galleys out for sea and slips a vessel’s moorings. My husband also makes to go, [...]
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  • SongDodecaneseImmigration Song

When You Go off to Foreign Lands

  • Σαν πας στα ξένα ⬥ When you go off to foreign lands, my love, don’t stay a year there, because it’s more than I can bear, the pain of separation. When you go off take me with you, Take me along for company. I cannot stand a day alone, how [...]
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  • SongEastern Thrace & RoumeliaImmigration Song

You Drive Me Mother out from Home

  • Διώχνεις με μάνα, διώχνεις με ⬥ You drive me, mother, out from home, in truth though I’ll be going. I’ll migrate with the little birds and with the long-winged swallows. In time the birds will all return, but I’ll be ever absent. Good mother, you will go to church, to [...]
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Records

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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 release1992UNHCR – The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Songs About Greeks Far From Home

This CD, published by UNHCR with an informative booklet, includes sixteen songs narrating different aspects of migrating to foreign lands: departure and life in foreign lands; the lives of families left behind; death in foreign lands or a return home. It marks a new direction to Domna Samiou’s music publications: […]
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  • AlbumDigital release, LP1989UNHCR – The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Songs About Greeks Far From Home (LP)

This LP includes nineteen songs narrating all the different aspects of migrating in foreign lands: the departure and the life to foreign lands, the life of the family left behind, death in these foreign lands or the return home. This publication of the UNHCR, with its informative accompanying booklet, introduces […]
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