Sunday, May 18, 2008

Yiannis Dimitras and Maria Katira - Erana ,LP,1978,Greece

Here's a 6-star rarity from Pokora's Record Collector dreams.A greek LP by Yiannis Dimitras and Maria Katira, both involved in the early 70s greek music idiom called "neo kyma"(new wave).Collaborated in the 70s with M. Hadjidakis,Mikis Theodorakis, these are the so called left winged artists of the greek early 70s( everything innovative and liberal in the junta period was considered left winged).This LP is excellent acoustic acid folk much inspired by greek traditional music (especiaally music from Ipeiros).Acoustic organs mostly,excellent voices,blending the green sunny atmosphere of greek land and the blue sea of Aegean(this sounds a bit like advertisement for Grce,which was not actually intended) .Anyway,highly recommented to every acid folk fan.
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8 comments:

  1. Listening to the first track and it's very very nice!

    Thanx for this...

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  2. Thanks for posting this. Any idea where I can find the track listing in Greek?

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  3. what a lurvely lp.....thank you...! Would it be too mundane to request 'read only memory' by chrome? It's so beautiful, but i cannot find it anywhere in the blogosphere!

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  4. wonderful!! this blog is pure inspiration and never predictable. thank you so much. :A

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  5. Track list:

    Omoia fili kai alati
    Piano kai grafo mia grafi
    Gemise o ypnos mou oneira
    Pano se kataspro sentoni
    Dimotiko
    Gie mou
    To spiti mou to sfalisa
    Rodo, rodo ginomeno
    Erotiko
    Ta ploia vouliaksan
    To oneiro
    Mnimi Dion. Solomou

    All music by Kikos Tatsis
    Lyrics by Kostas Papageorgiou
    Singers: G. Dimaras - M. Katira

    A Manos Hatzidakis production
    Columbia 70895
    Year 1978

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  6. με συγκινεις για αλλη μια φορα,οπως τοτε που εβαλες το νεκροπολις του Θαναση Ζλατανου.....Νικος Πατριτσοπουλος

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