Kostas Meretakis

Born in 1979 in Athens, he became interested in traditional percussion from an early age. He studied European music theory and electric instruments with professors Efstathios Christelis and Ioannis Kastrinos. He graduated from the Music High School of Pallini, where he trained in traditional percussion under Vangelis Karipis. He also attended percussion workshops with Zohar Fresco at Ross Daly’s Music Workshop “Labyrinth”.

He has performed in concerts in Greece and abroad, participated in recorded productions, and appeared on television and radio. He has collaborated with singers of both traditional music and art-laden popular music.

He has taught at numerous conservatories, music schools, and academies, and has been a member of various orchestras and musical ensembles.

Source: Kostas Meretakis

Songs

Three Black-Eyed Girls
  • SongSporades IslandsSkiathosCarnival Song, Lampoon

All Day Long I Reaped

  • Όλη μέρα θέριζα ⬥ Carnival satirical song from Skiathos with Thanassis Gkekas. Recorded in 2006.
Of Nature and of Love
  • SongPeloponneseLove Song

All the Birds, Two by Two

  • Όλα τα πουλάκια ζυγά-ζυγά ⬥ Kalamatianos from the Peloponnese with Domna Samiou. Recorded in 2005.
Three Black-Eyed Girls
  • SongCentral GreeceViotia, Avlida

At the Mountain of St. Theodoros

  • Στ’ Άγιο Θοδώρου το βουνό ⬥ Dance song from Avlida, Viotia, with Domna Samiou. Recorded in 2006.
Three Black-Eyed Girls
  • SongThraceImmigration Song

Between Two Mountains

  • Σε δυο βουνά ανάμεσα ⬥ Dance song from Thrace with Vangelis Dimoudis. Recorded in 2006.
A Wedding Rite
  • SongDodecaneseRhodesWedding Song

Bless the Couple Holy Mary

  • Νέβα κατέβα Παναγιά ⬥ Wedding song from Rhodes with Zacharias Karounis. Recorded in 2008.
Of Nature and of Love
  • SongPeloponneseLove Song

Come Out, My Sun, Come Out

  • Έβγα ήλιε μ’ έβγα ⬥ Kalamatianos dance from the Peloponnese with Zacharias Karounis. Recorded in 2005.
Three Black-Eyed Girls
  • SongCreteCouplets

Couplets for Raki

  • Δίστιχα για το ρακί ⬥ Maleviziotis tune with Ilias Andreoulakis (singer and Cretan lyra). Recorded in 2006.
Three Black-Eyed Girls
  • SongEastern AegeanLesvos

Couplets of the Olive Tree

  • Δίστιχα για την ελιά ⬥ Syrtos dance from Lesvos with Domna Samiou. Recorded in 2006.
Three Black-Eyed Girls
  • SongCrete

Couplets of the Olive Tree

  • Δίστιχα για την ελιά ⬥ Cretan couplets (mandinades) about the olive tree with Ilias Andreoulakis (singer and Cretan lyra). Recorded in 2006.
Three Black-Eyed Girls
  • SongEastern Thrace & RoumeliaLove Song

Down at Agia Marini

  • Κάτω στην Αγια-Μαρίνη ⬥ Dance song from Eastern Roumelia with Katerina Papadopoulou. Recorded in 2006.
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Records

I Tread the Earth Gently
  • AlbumCD, Digital release2008Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

I Tread the Earth Gently

Here Domna collected some of her most favourable songs: slow and tranquil songs, melodious and sad; songs of sorrow and of love, of parting and of loved ones far away.
Of Nature and of Love
  • AlbumCD, Digital release2006Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Of Nature and of Love

The down-to-earth love of nature in these folk songs doesn’t derive from any form of romantic nostalgia; it lies instead in a pure experience of everyday life.
Songs of History and Heroes
  • 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.
Three Black-Eyed Girls
  • AlbumDigital releaseDomna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

The Earth’s Three Bounties

Wheat, wine, oil. He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for people to cultivate· bringing forth food from the earth: wine that gladdens human hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread that sustains their hearts (Psalm 104, 15)
A Wedding Rite
  • AlbumUnreleased collectionDomna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Wedding Songs

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.
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