Ilias Diatsidis

Sandur player from Karlovasi, Samos island.

Domna Samiou recorded him playing the sandur and singing tunes and songs in 1969.

One of those recordings, Santur Solo, included in the LP Ethnologie Vivante: Grèce (1970).


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Epiphany carol (Samos)

Sandur: Ilias Diatsidis, song: Kyranio Diatsidis, Keti Diatsidis. Karlovasi, Samos 1969

© Domna Samiou Archive

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Tonight Is the Wedding Feast

Sandur: Ilias Diatsidis, song Kyranio Diatsidis, Keti Diatsidis, Georgia Spandou, Despina Spandou. Kalovasi, Samos 1969

© Domna Samiou Archive

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Uncle Mathios

Ilias Diatsidis, santur and song. Karlovasi, Samos 1969

© Domna Samiou Archive

Songs

Records

Carols, wishes and praises for Christmas, New Year and Epiphany. Some less and some more well-known, coming from various regions of Greece (2011).
A tribute to Greece from the excellent series “Ethnologie Vivante” with rare field recordings by Domna Samiou (1970).
One of Domna Samiou’s most characteristic LPs through which younger generations familiarized themselves with traditional folk music. It combines an aesthetically meticulous edition with accurate interpretations and perfect recordings. The song 'Farewell Holy One' has been sung and danced so many times all around Greece and abroad that has been […]
Unpublished collection of thirty-four traditional songs and tunes for the wedding feast, the bride, the groom, the best men and women and all the guests.