Tasia Papanikolaou

She was born in Amfissa, in the Prefecture of Phocis, Central Greece. She studied architectural design at the Doxiadis School. From 1965 to 1991 she worked in the architectural offices of Professor Yannis Despotopoulos (NTUA) and Ilias Skroubelos, and from 1977 onward she was a key member of Kyriakos Krokos’ office.

In 1971 she joined the Greek Folk Dance Group “Eleni Tsaouli”, where she met Domna Samiou and thereafter took part in her concerts in Greece and abroad as a member of the dance ensemble. From 1994 she attended folk song classes at the Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments and became a member of its choir.

She was a close collaborator and assistant to Domna Samiou in her activities, with full oversight of the material belonging to her personal archive. In 1992 she undertook the organisation, classification and cataloguing of Samiou’s field recordings, as well as the general archival arrangement of the Society’s material, while also working as production assistant on discography projects. She participates actively in the website’s working team.

Source: Tasia Papanikolaou

Records

Carnival Songs with Domna in Thessaloniki (Live)
  • AlbumCD, Digital release1994Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Carnival Songs

Carnival songs with their ritual bawdiness – ‘sacred in the profane’ – disturbed the prudish devotees of tradition. The recordings come with a detailed booklet analysing the pagan and ritualistic context in which these songs are performed.
Carnival Songs with Domna in Thessaloniki (Live)
  • AlbumDigital release, LP1994Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Carnival Songs (LP)

These “sacred in the profane” songs of the Carnival with their ritual bawdiness disturbed the prudish “devotees” of tradition. The records are accompanied by a detailed booklet analyzing the pagan and ritualistic context in which these songs are performed.
New Year Carol (Asia Minor)
  • AlbumCD2011Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Christmas, New Year and Epiphany Carols

Carols, wishes and praises for Christmas, New Year and Epiphany. Some less and some more well-known, coming from various regions of Greece (2011).
Of Nature and of Love
  • AlbumDVD2007Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Domna Samiou Sings Songs of Nature and of Love

This videotaped stage performance, held at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on 2005, includes songs and rituals related to the cycle of the agricultural year,.
Easter Songs
  • AlbumCD, Digital release1998Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Easter Songs

This edition aims to convey the spirit of Easter, the Christian feast celebrated amidst the glory and promise of springtime, through the selected rituals of that period of the year and their related sacred songs and tunes.
Epic Songs of Warriors and Heroes
  • AlbumCD, Digital release2017Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Epic Songs of Warriors and Heroes

Songs inspired by the popular tradition of story-telling, relating tales of brave warriors, both high-ranked lords, and lowly soldiers. Centering on heroic Digenis, they originate from all parts of Greece.
Folk Fables in Song
  • AlbumCD, Digital release2008Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Folk Fables in Song

Tales of the fabulous and the fantastic combining the real world with the supernatural. Narrating stories, often tragic, which might once have occurred – or could do so one day.
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.
Kaneloriza
  • AlbumCD, Digital release1995Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Kaneloriza

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.
Early last summer
  • AlbumDigital release2022Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

My Old Torments

Songs of Asia Minor by Domna Samiou. Live recording from the concert ‘Songs of Asia Minor with Domna Samiou’ at the Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall, on 8/3/2005. Traditional songs from the western coasts of Asia Minor, Propontis, Constantinople, Pontus and Cappadocia.
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