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’.

Production: Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association
Year of release: 1992
Type: CD, Digital release

Collaborators

Production team

Domna Samiou (Research, Collection, Musical supervision)Yulie Papatheodorou (Production management)

Sound team

Kostas Prikopoulos (Sound engineer)

Booklet team

Mania Seferiades (English translation)Yiorgos Kaldelis (Design and layout)

Singers

Domna Samiou (The Young Meliots, Dimitroula, Yioryitsa, Roumbalia – Carnation, The Water of Life, At Dawn, )Isidoros Syntelis (You Have Entangled Me, )Kostas Diavatis (Like the Marble of the City (Constantinople), )Manolis Pappos (Yio Mario, )Kleoniki Tzoanaki (Yatzilariani, Balos from Alatsata, )Maria Karamblaka (Roumbalia, )Yiorgos Kambouriannidis (The Ship Is My House, )Mathios Ventouris (The Widow, )

Choir

Group from Nea Makri (Attiki) (Wake up My Black Eyed One, I Come and You Are Asleep, )Greek Folk Dance Group ‘Eleni Tsaouli’ (Yio Mario, Yatzilariani, Roumbalia – Carnation, )Choir of the Athletic and Cultural Association ‘Propontis’ (Neos Marmaras, Chalkidiki) (Well Met, )Women’s Group from Nea Erythrea (Attiki) (Yatzilariani, Balos from Alatsata, )Women’s Group from Meli (Megara, Attiki) (Roumbalia, )

Musicians

Clarinet

Petros Athanasopoulos-Kalyvas (Like the Marble of the City (Constantinople), The Water of Life, Well Met, Dance (With Wooden Spoons), Yioryitsa, Balos from Alatsata, Dimitroula, The Young Meliots, )

Violin

Nikos Oikonomidis (Like the Marble of the City (Constantinople), Karsilamas Dance – Tsift, The Water of Life, Yatzilariani, Roumbalia – Carnation, )Stathis Koukoularis (Wake up My Black Eyed One, Well Met, Yioryitsa, I Come and You Are Asleep, Violin Solo, The Young Meliots, )Alekos Pavlou-Arapakis (Balos from Alatsata, Dimitroula, The Widow, )

Constantinopolitan lyra

Socrates Sinopoulos (You Have Entangled Me, At Dawn, Karsilamas Dance – Tsift, )

Kanun

Agnes Agopian (You Have Entangled Me, At Dawn, Like the Marble of the City (Constantinople), Karsilamas Dance – Tsift, The Water of Life, )

Santur

Tassos Diakogiorgis (Well Met, Yatzilariani, Balos from Alatsata, The Widow, The Young Meliots, )Vassilis Soukas (Roumbalia – Carnation, )

Oud

Joanna Andrews (You Have Entangled Me, At Dawn, Like the Marble of the City (Constantinople), Wake up My Black Eyed One, Karsilamas Dance – Tsift, The Water of Life, Yioryitsa, Dimitroula, I Come and You Are Asleep, )

Lute

Kostas Philippidis (Like the Marble of the City (Constantinople), The Water of Life, Dance (With Wooden Spoons), Roumbalia – Carnation, )Vassilis Katrakos (Well Met, Yatzilariani, Dimitroula, The Widow, )Vangelis Koukoularis (Yioryitsa, The Young Meliots, )

Goblet drum

Andreas Pappas (At Dawn, Like the Marble of the City (Constantinople), Karsilamas Dance – Tsift, The Water of Life, Roumbalia – Carnation, )Mathios Balabanis (Wake up My Black Eyed One, Well Met, Dance (With Wooden Spoons), Yatzilariani, Yioryitsa, Balos from Alatsata, I Come and You Are Asleep, The Widow, The Young Meliots, )Yiorgos Gevgelis (Dimitroula, )

Bendir (frame drum)

Andreas Pappas (You Have Entangled Me, )

Spoons

Domna Samiou (Dance (With Wooden Spoons), )

Informant (source of the song)

Nikos Karageorgiou (Wake up My Black Eyed One, I Come and You Are Asleep, )Nikolas Labrinoudakis (Yio Mario, )Paraschos Manikas (Yio Mario, )Yannis Zikas (The Water of Life, Dimitroula, )Antonis Marmarinos (Well Met, )Kleoniki Tzoanaki (Yatzilariani, Yioryitsa, )Kostas Kounelas (Balos from Alatsata, )Marianthy Vagianou (Dimitroula, The Young Meliots, )Maria Karamblaka (Roumbalia, )Yiorgos Kambouriannidis (The Ship Is My House, )

See also

  • The "Musical Travelogue"

Musical Travelogue with Domna Samiou – Asia Minor

  • An episode dedicated to the musical tradition of the Greeks from the coastal area of western Asia Minor, Smyrna and the Erithrean peninsula. The documentary includes historical recordings from the Centre for Asia Minor Studies as well as testimonies and songs by refugees now living in Thessaloniki, Athens, and Piraeus. [...]
  • Concert
  • 08 & 09/03/2005

Songs of Asia Minor with Domna Samiou

An Asia Minor tribute concert. A tribute to the muse of the historical space of the Greek East. Traditional songs from the western coast of Asia Minor, the Propontis, Constantinople, Pontus and Cappadocia and two Byzantine hymns from the musical tradition of the Orthodox Church. A musical variety that is […]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • SongAsia MinorErythraea, VourlaSad and Plaintive SongCouplets, Processional Tune, Table Song

At Dawn

  • Δεν είν’ αυγή να σηκωθώ ⬥ At dawn not once did I get up without sighing arise, my sun, come, talk to me without bending again on the pillow and crying arise that I may see you and be comforted. At Alatsata there is a mountain called the Karadai come, [...]