Farewell Holy One

One of Domna Samiou’s most characteristic LPs through which younger generations familiarized themselves with traditional folk music. It combines an aesthetically meticulous edition with accurate interpretations and perfect recordings. The song 'Farewell Holy One' has been sung and danced so many times all around Greece and abroad that has been ascribed as Domna’s ‘trademark’ and, in a way, it introduces the concept of the ‘original interpretation’ as for a traditional folk song.

In 2008 the LP was included in a box-CD by MINOS EMI under the title Mia zoi tragoudi, along with the LPs Souravli, By the flowering oleander and A stroll with Domna Samiou.

Production: EMI Columbia
Year of release: 1974
Type: LP

Collaborators

Production team

Domna Samiou (Research, Collection, Musical supervision)

Sound team

Takis Philippidis (Sound engineer)Kostas Prikopoulos (Sound engineer)

Booklet team

Markos Ph. Dragoumis (Texts and commentaries)

Singers

Domna Samiou (John Dear Your Handkerchif, Farewell Holy One, Marandon, Aman Gel Aman, The Sounds of the Chains, Redhair Wife of the Priest, Uncle Mathios, )Apostolos Kakalis (Down at Rhodes, )Yiorgos Bagiokis (Yesterday or the Day Before Yesterday I Passed by, )Yiorgos Tsalikidis (Marandon, )Haris Athanassiadis (John Dear Your Handkerchif, )

Choir

Mixed choir (Forty Five Craftsmen, )

Musicians

Clarinet

Kyriakos Kostoulas (Zeimbekiko of Smyrna, Redhair Wife of the Priest, Yesterday or the Day Before Yesterday I Passed by, )Napoleon Saadedin (Lament, John Dear Your Handkerchif, )

Kaval

Theodoros Kekes (Zonaradikos Dance, )

Gaida (bagpipe)

Theodoros Kekes (Down at Rhodes, )

Violin

Yiorgos Koros (Zeimbekiko of Smyrna, Uncle Mathios, Farewell Holy One, )Dimitris Bagias (Redhair Wife of the Priest, Yesterday or the Day Before Yesterday I Passed by, Zonaradikos Dance, Aman Gel Aman, )Haris Athanassiadis (Lament, John Dear Your Handkerchif, )

Pontic lyra

Yannis Hadjiparaskevas (Marandon, )

Kanun

Nikos Stefanidis (Zeimbekiko of Smyrna, Aman Gel Aman, Farewell Holy One, )

Santur

Tassos Diakogiorgis (Uncle Mathios, )

Oud

Karyofyllis Doitsidis (Zeimbekiko of Smyrna, Zonaradikos Dance, Aman Gel Aman, )

Lute

Stavros Adrianos (Zeimbekiko of Smyrna, Uncle Mathios, Redhair Wife of the Priest, Yesterday or the Day Before Yesterday I Passed by, Zonaradikos Dance, Aman Gel Aman, Farewell Holy One, )Petros Karbadakis (The Sounds of the Chains, )Ilias Nikiforakis (The Sounds of the Chains, )Dimitris Saadedin (Lament, John Dear Your Handkerchif, )

Daouli (davul)

Mathios Balabanis (Forty Five Craftsmen, Redhair Wife of the Priest, )

Goblet drum

Mathios Balabanis (Down at Rhodes, Zeimbekiko of Smyrna, Uncle Mathios, Zonaradikos Dance, Aman Gel Aman, Farewell Holy One, )

Tambourine

K. Sloutas (John Dear Your Handkerchif, )

Informant (source of the song)

Yannis Tsirigotis (Forty Five Craftsmen, )Ilias Diatsidis (Uncle Mathios, )