Tsifteteli

Τσιφτετέλι

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Region: Asia Minor
Type: Instrumental
Dance: Tsifteteli
Duration: 01:58

Recording information

Live recording from the concert Songs of Asia Minor with Domna Samiou at the Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall, on 8/3/2005.

Credits

Nikos Oikonomidis

Violin

Panos Dimitrakopoulos

Kanun

Socrates Sinopoulos

Constantinopolitan lute

Evgenios Voulgaris

Saz

Kyriakos Tapakis

Lute

Andreas Pappas

Goblet drum

Vangelis Karipis

Tambourine

Discography

My Old Torments

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