Stathis Koukoularis

Born in 1945 in Kinidaros in the island of Naxos, Cyclades. He plays the violin and sings folk songs of the Aegean islands. Since 1959 he has been living in Athens. Father of Vangelis Koukoularis and of Niki Koukoulari, who also sings Nisiotika.

He started playing the violin at the age of thirteen and studied at the Athens Conservatory. Between 1968 and 1976 he lived in Australia.

He collaborated mostly with singers of various islands and in 1995 he recorded three personal albums: Istoria tis Ellinikis Mousikis: violi, Apo ti Mikrasia sto Aigaio, and To nisi mou tha thymamai.

He has participated in the recordings of approximately four thousand songs.

Songs

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  • SongCycladesInstrumental

Balos Dance

  • Μπάλος ⬥ Tune from Cyclades, recorded in 1965. On the violin, Stathis Koukoularis.
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  • SongMacedoniaLove SongCouplets

D’You Hear the Water-Mills

  • Ακούς τους μύλους ⬥ D’you hear the water-mills that pound, and how the waters roar? We two do love each other well, so let the people clamour. I come to meet you by the wall, but do not find you waiting there. What’s up with you, my pretty dove, your [...]
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  • SongAsia MinorMakri - LevissiLove SongCouplets, Processional Tune

I Come and You Are Asleep

  • Έρχομαι κι εσύ κοιμάσαι ⬥ I come and you are asleep amid the white jasmine, wake up wherever you might live and be, my bushy lemon tree. My partridge from Livíssi, I am entangled in your nets. The keys of my heart take them and open, there are rose gardens [...]
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  • SongAsia MinorLove Song

Kanelóriza

  • Κανελόριζα ⬥ Down by the distance coast, down by the sandy shore is the girl – is the girl I love. The girl I love with hair so fair and eyes so dark, she's but twelve – she's but twelve years old. She's but twelve years old, the sun has [...]
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  • SongAsia MinorInstrumental

Karsilamas Dance

  • Καρσιλαμάς ⬥ The tune is very well known among Megarians who must have learnt it from refugees from the village of Melí on the Erythraea peninsula when the latter were settled in the neighbourhood of Mégara, Attica. Recorded in 1995.
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  • SongThessalyMagnesia, PelionInstrumental

Karsilamas Dance

  • Καρσιλαμάς ⬥ Tune in a 9-beat rhythm from Pelion, recorded in 1995.
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  • SongPropontisMarmaraLove Song

Karsilamas dance from Marmara

  • Μαρμαρινός καρσιλαμάς ⬥ May this Bálos last, last until morning that the girls may dance with their mates! Ah, my barber boy, come, embrace my neck.1 Black eyes of mine and sweet, why are you angry? Did perhaps your mother scold you about me? I saw eyes and eyebrows and [...]
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  • SongCappadocia / KonyaInstrumental

Koniali

  • Κόνιαλι ⬥ Dance from Cappadocia in 2/4 meter. Recorded in 1984.
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  • SongAsia MinorSmyrna, BaindiriLocal Song, Love SongCouplets

Sokiani

  • Σωκιανή ⬥ Ah, aman, aman, Sokiani1, Sokiani, my heart goes out to thee. Ah, aman, aman, Menemen’, Menemen’, thou art my heart’s desire. Ah, aman, aman, Odemis’, Odemis’, oh my it burn and topple. Ah, aman, aman, Bergama, Bergama, grow rich from toil and gild me. Ah, aman, aman, Phokiani, Phokiani2, my heart goes out [...]
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  • SongAsia MinorErythraea, MeliLove Song, Wedding SongCouplets

The Young Meliots

  • Τα Μελιωτάκια ⬥ Two young Meliots got up to dance the syrtos, they will ask us for songs and commendations. Come, let us go over there and make merry, let us sing songs from Meli! How beautifully paired you are, you two of one height, like the cypress trees1 that [...]
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Records

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  • AlbumCD, Digital release1995Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Kaneloriza

This CD includes songs and tunes in ‘7 beats to the bar’ (the rhythm of kalamatianos dances) and in ‘9 beats to the bar’ (the rhythm of zeibekikos and karsilamas dances) with lyrics and melodies both erotic and sorrowful. (barcode: 5204910000425)
Δισκογραφία 45 στροφών
  • Album45 RPM1959

Recordings in 45 RPM

Τραγούδια που κυκλοφόρησαν σε δίσκους 45 στροφών, την περίοδο 1959-1969, σε μουσική επιμέλεια Δόμνας Σαμίου.
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  • AlbumDigital release, LP1984Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Songs of Asia Minor 1

On this LP, Domna Samiou presents songs and dances she recorded among refugees of Asia Minor: heartfelt interpretations dedicated to Baindiri, Domna’s hometown in Asia Minor. This LP marked the founding of the Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association.
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  • AlbumDigital release, LP1991Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Songs of Asia Minor 2

On this LP, Domna Samiou presents songs and dances she recorded among refugees of Asia Minor: heartfelt interpretations dedicated to Baindiri, Domna’s hometown in Asia Minor. This LP complements ‘Songs of Asia Minor N° 1’ published in 1984.
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  • AlbumCD, Digital release1992Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Songs οf Asia Minor

On this CD, Domna Samiou presents songs and dances she recorded among refugees of Asia Minor: heartfelt interpretations dedicated to Baindiri, Domna’s hometown in Asia Minor. The CD includes songs from two previous LPs, 'Songs of Asia Minor 1 and 2'. (barcode: 5204910000128)  
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