Cretans’ Group

Cretans living in Athens, who participated in two albums by Domna Samiou as a choir.

The members of the choir are:

Yannis Andrianakis
Michalis Fragiadakis
Yannis Karpouzakis
Yiorgis Marentakis
Yannis Maronikolakis
Antonis Martsakis
Apostolos Nikolioudakis
Lefteris Nikolouzakis
Yannis Papadokonstantakis
Manolis Theodorakis

Songs

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  • SongCreteNature SongCretan Rizitiko

The Dawn of Dawn

  • Αυγή τσ’ αυγής ⬥ The dawn of dawn, I’ll rise at the dawn of dawn to get myself to the mountain’s root, at the mountain’s root to greet the day. To greet the day, o mount of mine, atop your peak. To wander upon your flank, To stroll across your [...]
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  • SongCreteChania, KambanosHistorical Song, National Legends and LamentsCretan Rizitiko

When the City Was Founded

  • Όντεν εθεμελιώνανε ⬥ When the angels the City did found with water from the Holy Mount and clay from Chios and tiles from Adrianoúpolis. And when the angels had built the City they stopped to rest and behold and admire it. ‘But what shall we call this place, what name [...]
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Records

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  • AlbumCD, Digital release2006Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Of Nature and of Love

Through these songs, Domna Samiou pays tribute to how man, in years gone by, worshipped nature as the measure of ultimate beauty, order and harmony, and treated it with awe rather than with the destructive fury of today. The down-to-earth love of nature in these folk songs doesn’t derive from […]
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  • AlbumCD, Digital release2007Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Songs of History and Heroes

The retelling of fine, magnificent, heroic deeds from the past has always inspired a future path for every nation, the weft on which its future is woven. Austere and Doric, as stern as the heroes they describe, these songs from history function both as chronicles and musical myths, and as […]
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