Christos Athanassopoulos-Mortakis

Born in Agrinio, he is the younger brother of Petros Athanasopoulos-Kalyvas. He plays the clarinet, the lute and the guitar with various bands in Athens and elsewhere in Greece.

Songs

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  • SongInstrumental

Hassaposerviko

  • Χασαποσέρβικος
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  • SongEpirusLove Song

I’ll Be the Basil by Your Window

  • Βασιλικός θα γίνω ⬥ I’ll be the basil by your window, I’ll stay unwed for your sake. Come, come to me and I’ll fill you with glee. Come to the window, not a word to your mum, mid pretend to water your marjoram. By the end of July with you [...]
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  • SongPeloponneseLove Song, Wedding SongProcessional Tune

Let My Eyes Go See

  • Ας πα να δουν τα μάτια μου ⬥ Let my eyes go see for themselves how my love spends her days, lest she’s found another and fallen in love and left me. Who said that, my dark-haired one, who said I didn't love you? If it was the sun, may [...]
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  • SongEpirusPogoniImmigration Song

My Heart-Sick Bird Flown Far From Home

  • Ξενιτεμένο μου πουλί ⬥ My heart-sick bird flown far from home, joy you bring those far-flung lands, sadness all you leave behind. What'll I send, beloved stranger, to you there, in foreign lands? If I send an apple, it will rot, if I send a quince, it will wither. If [...]
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  • SongAsia MinorSmyrnaLove SongCouplets

My Heartless Love

(Smyrna's Bálos)

  • Καλέ, δε με λυπάσαι ⬥ My heartless love, do you not feel for me as you don your finery and I lose myself for love of thee? Come kiss me quick and be quickly on your way, lest the neighbors see us and say your heart is mine. Translated by Michael [...]
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  • SongCentral GreeceEuboeaLampoon, Sea and Sailors SongCouplets

Our Tráta All Tattered

  • Η τράτα μας η κουρελού ⬥ Our battered old boat and its tattered old nets patched over and over and yet always torn. Our old boat needs sails, Our old boat needs oars If mum only knew that I worked on that boat, she’d send me my clothes and my [...]
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  • SongEpirusKlephtic Song

Samarina

  • Σαμαρίνα ⬥ Hey, you young klephts, you sons of Samarina, if you go up to the mountains, the Samarina way [don’t fire off shots, don’t belt out songs]. And if my mum and cunning sister ask you don’t tell them I got killed and that I am dead, just tell [...]
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  • SongMacedoniaCarnival Song, Love SongCouplets

Why Did I Fall in Love With You?

(Enteka (Eleven))

  • Τι 'θελα και σ' αγαπούσα ⬥ Why did I go and fall for you? Why didn't I just get on with my life? Now my head’s swimming and knives have pierced my heart. The fault was mine, pity me and do what you will with me, open your arms and [...]
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Records

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.
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  • AlbumLP1980Caprice

My Emigrated Bird

The first LP by the state-run 'Concerts Sweden Rikskonserter' produced with non-Swedish musicians. Domna Samiou was chosen for her valuable contribution to traditional Greek folk music. The LP, documented by an extended trilingual booklet, came after a concert tour in sixteen Swedish cities in the summer of 1979 aiming to […]
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