Asia Minor (Western Coast)

Traditional songs and tunes of the Greeks from the Western Coast of Asia Minor, where Greek communities lived until the Asia Minor Catastrophe (1922).
Domna Samiou Archive

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Early last summer
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Makri - LevissiLampoonCouplets

If You Want to Marry

  • Αν θέλεις για να παντρευτείς ⬥ Dance song from Makri and Levissi, Asia Minor with Domna Samiou and the Domna Samiou Choir. Live recording (2005).
A Walk in Sergiani
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Love SongCouplets

Kanaria

  • Τα κανάρια ⬥ Table song from Asia Minor with Domna Samiou. Recorded in 1986.
Kaneloriza
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Love Song

Kaneloriza

  • Κανελόριζα ⬥ Dance love song from Asia Minor with Domna Samiou. Recorded in 1995.
Down on the Sandy Beach
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Improvisation, Instrumental

Kanun Solo

  • Σόλο κανονάκι ⬥ Improvisation by the kanun master Nikos Stefanidis. Released on a 45 rpm disc in 1959.
A Walk in Sergiani
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Instrumental

Karsilamas Dance

  • Καρσιλαμάς ⬥ Instrumental tune from Asia MInor with Petros Athanasopoulos-Kalyvas (clarinet) and Yiorgos Koros (violin). Recorded in 1986.
Kaneloriza
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Instrumental

Karsilamas Dance

  • Καρσιλαμάς ⬥ Instrumental tune from Asia Minor with Nikos Philippidis (clarinet) and Stathis Koukoularis (violin). Recorded in 1995.
Last Night I Didn’t Sleep
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Instrumental

Karsilamas Dance

  • Αντικριστός ⬥ Instrumental karsilamas dance in a 9-beat rhythm from Asia Minor. Recorded in 1961.
Easter Songs
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Instrumental

Karsilamas Dance

  • Καρσιλαμάς ⬥ Instrumental version of the song “Karsilamas Dance from Marmara” with Yiorgos Marinakis (violin) and Panos Dimitrakopoulos (kanun). Recorded in 1997.
Three Black-Eyed Girls
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Instrumental

Karsilamas Dance from Sokia (Söke)

  • Σωκιανός καρσιλαμάς ⬥ Instrumental tune, a karsilamas from Asia Minor, with Nikos Oikonomidis (violin). Recorded in 2006.
Let’s Say One
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Children's Song

Let’s Say One

  • Να το πούμε ένα ⬥ Children’s song from Asia Minor, featuring little Orfeas Tsilias and a Group of children from the 9th Primary School of Nea Smyrni. Recorded in 2005.
Songs of Asia Minor 2
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Love SongCouplets

Like the Marbles of the City (Constantinople)

  • Σαν τα μάρμαρα της Πόλης ⬥ Dance song from Asia Minor with Kostas Diavatis. Recorded in 1991.
Last Night I Didn’t Sleep
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Lullaby

Lullaby

  • Νανούρισμα ⬥ Lullaby from Asia Minor with Domna Samiou. Recorded in 1961.
Of Nature and of Love
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Lullaby

Lullaby

  • Νανούρισμα ⬥ Lullaby from Asia Minor with Domna Samiou. Recorded in 2005.
Songs of Dame Sea
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Lullaby

Lullaby

  • Νανούρισμα ⬥ Lullaby from Asia Minor with Domna Samiou. Recorded in 2001.
I Tread the Earth Gently
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Love SongCouplets

May Your Window Catch Fire

  • Το παραθύρι σ’ να καεί ⬥ Love song from Asia Minor with Domna Samiou. Recorded in 2006.
Of Nature and of Love
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Love Song

My Curly Basil

  • Σγουρέ βασιλικέ μου ⬥ Table love song from Asia Minor with Domna Samiou. Recorded in 2005.
Three Black-Eyed Girls
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Couplets

My Golden Solace

  • Η χρυσή παρηγοριά μου ⬥ Dance song about wine from Asia Minor with Vassilis Karkantzos. Recorded in 2006.
My Emigrated Bird
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)SmyrnaLove SongCouplets

My Heartless Love

(Smyrna’s Balos)

  • Καλέ, δε με λυπάσαι ⬥ Balos dance from Smyrna with Domna Samiou (singer) and Stefanos Vartanis (violin). Recorded in 1979.
Early last summer
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Erythraea, Kato PanagiaLove SongCouplets

My Old Torments

  • Τα παλαιά μου βάσανα ⬥ Slow, table love song from Kato Panagia, Erythraea (Asia Minor), with Zacharias Karounis. Live recording (2005).
New Year Carol (Asia Minor)
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)New Year's Carol, Ritual SongCarol

New Year Carol (Asia Minor)

  • Εις αυτό το νέον έτος ⬥ New Year carol from Asia Minor with Domna Samiou. Recorded in 2011.
Recordings in 45 RPM
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)New Year's Carol, Ritual SongCarol

New Year Carol (Asia Minor)

  • Εις αυτό το νέον έτος ⬥ New Year carol from Asia Minor with the Children’s Choir of the Rallios Primary School of Piraeus. Released on a 45 rpm disc in the 1960s.
New Year Carol (Asia Minor)
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Erythraea, MeliNew Year's Carol, Pastoral SongCarol

New Year Carol (Asia Minor)

  • Βασίλης βόσκει πρόβατα ⬥ New Year carol of Saint Basil of the shepherds from Meli, Erythraea, Asia Minor. Recorded in 1983.
I See Some Ships Approaching Port
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Erythraea, ÇeşmeNew Year's Carol, Ritual SongCarol

New Year Carol (Asia Minor)

  • Κάλαντα Πρωτοχρονιάς ⬥ New Year carol from Asia Minor with the Children’s Choir of the High School “Estia Neas Smyrnis”. Recorded in 1980.
Easter Songs
  • SongAsia Minor (Western Coast)Smyrna, BaindiriHoly Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song

Now Is the Holy Time of Lent

(Holy Week Lament)

  • Τώρα 'ν' αγιά Σαρακοστή ⬥ Holy Week Lament from Asia Minor with Domna Samiou. Recorded in 1997.