Kyriakos Kostoulas

Born in 1934 in Malakasi, in the Trikala Prefecture, into a family of musicians. He plays the clarinet and his repertoire includes traditional songs of Central Greece, of Thessaly, of Thrace and of Epirus.

Source: Yiorgos E. Papadakis‘ archive


Concert at the “Nea Poria” theater, 1973
Concert at the “Nea Poria” theater, 1973
Themistocles Angelis (violin), Kyriakos Kostoulas (clarinet) Domna Samiou, Stavros Adrianos (oud), Mathios Balabanis (goblet drum)

© Domna Samiou Archive

Concert at the “Nea Poria” theater, 1973
Concert at the “Nea Poria” theater, 1973
Themistocles Angelis (violin), Kyriakos Kostoulas (clarinet) Domna Samiou

© Domna Samiou Archive

Songs

Records

One of Domna Samiou’s most characteristic LPs through which younger generations familiarized themselves with traditional folk music.
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.
LP is dedicated to Greek instrumental folk music and especially to wind instruments such as the different types of pipes: flute, mandoura, gaida, pipiza, gavala.
Domna Samiou had the general musical supervision of this important LP including twelve songs most of which are interpreted by her accompanied by local traditional musicians. As in all previous LPs, the songs are representative of all areas of Hellenism and are performed without any alteration in lyrics or music.