Ilias Soukas

Born in 1935 Kompoti, a village in the Prefecture of Arta, in Epirus. He belongs to the fourth generation of a musical family. His father taught him the violin and his repertoire includes traditional songs of Asia Minor, of Epirus, of the Aegean islands, and of Central Greece.

Source: Yiorgos E. Papadakis archive

Songs

Records

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.
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.