Vangelis Dimoudis

Born in 1954 in Karoti, a village of Didymoteicho in the Evros Prefecture of Thrace. He is a dancer, a dance master, an oudist, and a singer.

In 1972, together with the dance music group of his village, he visited Athens to present dances from Thrace at the theatre ‘Dora Stratou’, where he remained for twenty years.

Since 1983 he has been collaborating with his fellow villager and teacher in singing Chronis Aidonidis. He has also collaborated with various significant artists of traditional music, and has taken part in concerts throughout Greece and abroad.

He has participated in many albums; his personal discography includes the albums: Tragoudia tis B. Thrakis (Songs of N. Thrace, 1979), Poulaki klaiei monacho (1997), and Iliovasilema ston Evro (2004).

Source: Vangelis Dimoudis

Songs

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  • SongThraceEvros, KarotiHistorical Song, National Legends and Laments

Alexander and the King

  • Αλέξαντρος κι βασιλιάς ⬥ Alexander, bré amán amán, Alexander and the king, Alexander brave and strong and little Constantine. They ate together, bré amán amán, they ate and drank together, Alexander brave and strong, and feasted and revelled together. And as they ate and as they drank and as they revelled they [...]
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  • SongEastern Thrace & RoumeliaLove Song

At the Casement of the House

  • Στ’ς παπαδιάς τα παραθύρια ⬥ At the casement of the house, where the priest’s wife lives, at the casement of her home two black eyebrows sit. They gaze upon the sailing-ships that come from Egypt’s shores; cosmetics are their merchandise, the best cosmetic rouge for girls to paint their lips [...]
Τα τρία αγαθά της γης
  • SongThraceImmigration Song

Between Two Mountains

  • Σε δυο βουνά ανάμεσα ⬥ Studio recording, 2006.
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  • SongThraceEvros, SoufliChildren's Song, Lampoon

Down on the Barbary Plane

  • Κάτου στ’ς Μπαρμπαριάς τουν κάμπου ⬥ Down, moré, down on the Barbary plane, the fish are getting married down on the Barbary plane. The ants, moré, the ants are celebrating, the ants are celebrating, for the best man –me– they are a-waiting. But to spite them, I did not show, [...]
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  • SongEastern Thrace & RoumeliaFable Song (Ballad), Philosophical Song

I Passed by and Bade Good Day

  • Πέρασα καλημέρισα ⬥ I passed by and bid four black eyes good day, four lips, dear Daphne, four red lips. Four red lips and two lithe, slender frames, I passed them by, dear Daphne, and asked them the way. They didn’t say a word, and I set off anyways along [...]
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  • SongThraceEvros, AmbelakiaLove Song

I Will Climb a Mountain High

  • Θ’ ανέβω σε ψηλό βουνό ⬥ With golden adz and silver saw I climb a mountain high, up where the best trees grow. To cut boughs of laurel and apple and orange my lyre and silver bow to carve, and to sing as I know how. The girls dance so [...]
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  • SongEastern Thrace & RoumeliaFable Song (Ballad), Prison Song

No Father Had I

(The Wine Bearer)

  • Εγώ είμαι ορφανό παιδί ⬥ No father had I, my mother was a widow. My mother was a widow and sold me, sold me into service to a good master. My master was joyful, his son was to wed, and bade me serve his guests from a golden jug. With [...]
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  • SongThraceEvros, KarotiFor Saint John of Kledon, Ritual Song

Saint John

  • Αγιόγιαννης ⬥ Saint John’s herb Saint John’s herb with its short black leaves. Two herbs fell out over which smelled the finest. Basil smells fine which grows in ditches and the rose, too, that sprout from thorns, and the stinkweed, too, its stench fills the plains. Get thee back, stinkweed, [...]
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  • SongEastern Thrace & RoumeliaFable Song (Ballad)

The Dead Brother

  • Του νεκρού αδελφού ⬥ What a mother, vai aman aman, what a fine mother, what a mother, ela giareni mou ela, what a fine mother is she with, vai aman aman, with the nine sons and, ela giareni mou ela, the only daughter. Matchmakers came from Babylon to take Areti far away to foreign [...]
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  • SongThraceEvros, KarotiFable Song (Ballad)

The Son of the Armenian

  • Τ’ Αρμένου γιός πινέθηκε ⬥ The son of the Armenian boasted, my beautiful blue eyes, to a pasha, his master, sing my lovely nightingale. – My master, I shall cross the sea, on foot I shall cross it. – And if you cross the sea that way, you’ll be my son-in-law. Do [...]
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Records

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  • AlbumCD, Digital release1994Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Carnival Songs

The most famous publication of the Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association. These Carnival songs with their ritual bawdiness – ‘sacred in the profane’ – disturbed the prudish devotees of tradition. The recordings (on CD and double LP) come with a detailed booklet analysing the pagan and ritualistic context in […]
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  • AlbumDigital release, LP1994Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Carnival Songs (LP)

The most famous publication of Domna Samiou’s Association. These ‘sacred in the profane’ songs of the Carnival with their ritual bawdiness disturbed the prudish ‘devotees’ of tradition. The records (in LP and CD) are accompanied by a detailed booklet analysing the pagan and ritualistic context in which these songs are […]
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  • 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 11th of October 2005, includes songs and rituals related to the cycle of the agricultural year, rewarding human labour and telling of man’s relationship to nature.
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  • AlbumCD, Digital release2008Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Folk Fables in Song

In fables, fragments of ancient myths are preserved. On this CD, Domna Samiou & her collaborators sing tales of the fabulous and the fantastic combining the real world with the supernatural and narrating stories, often tragic, which might once have occurred – or could do so one day – however […]
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  • AlbumCD, Digital release2006Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Of Nature and of Love

Through these songs, Domna Samiou pays tribute to how man, in years gone by, worshipped nature as the measure of ultimate beauty, order and harmony, and treated it with awe rather than with the destructive fury of today. The down-to-earth love of nature in these folk songs doesn’t derive from […]
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  • AlbumCD, Digital release1992UNHCR – The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Songs About Greeks Far From Home

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. It marks a new direction to Domna Samiou’s music publications: […]
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  • AlbumDigital release, LP1989UNHCR – The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Songs About Greeks Far From Home (LP)

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. This publication of the UNHCR, with its informative accompanying booklet, introduces […]
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  • AlbumCD, Digital release2002Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Songs of Dame Sea

The wealth of Greek traditional music has been enriched by every aspect of maritime tradition – by its values, virtues and charm – as is amply demonstrated by this wonderful collection of songs. They embrace the ways people have sung, since Ulysses, about the temptations of the sea, its risks, […]
Τα τρία αγαθά της γης
  • 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)
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  • AlbumCD, Digital release2007Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

The Great North Wind and Other Traditional Songs for Children

‘The Great North Wind ….’ is Domna Samiou’s second CD dedicated to her ‘young friends’. One of Domna’s main concerns is that, unless children are initiated in music, these songs will gradually disappear as time goes by. This CD is a good companion to those who want to offer their […]
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Concerts

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  • Concert
  • 11/10/2005

Domna Samiou Sings Songs of Nature and of Love

Traditional songs and events that follow the course of the cycle of the year. Starting from the autumn, which marks the beginning of the working and ecclesiastical year, a harvest revival, events of the twelve days of Christmas, Easter festivities, Saint John of Kledon customs, and summer festive events.
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