Greek Music: RFI

Sorry, off topic but this From Dust to Digital comp from 2013 is worth exploring. 42 tracks so it takes some perseverance but there's some lovely music in there.

https://dusttodigital.bandcamp.com/album/greek-rhapsody-instrumental-music-from-greece-1905-1956

― millmeister, Monday, September 29, 2014 7:12 AM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So if I've OD'd on most of the Christopher King comps and the Alexis Zoumbas LP, is this a logical next step? I'm really into the demotik Epirus music, but don't really know much rebetika, or much Greek music beyond these recent collections. Does this comp favor one style over another? I definitely dig the darkness / sadness of a lot of the primeval village music, but I'm pretty open to it all. Just wondering if I should add this to my Amazon wishlist so my in-laws can take the hit instead of me! (Christmas is coming)

Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis's NYN, then. Only just caught this via the fRoots list. First cut caught my attention. Not so sure of the album overall though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ylmGzz3Hfw

The beginning makes me think of As Tears Go By. Kristi Stassinopoulou is a good, pleasant singer but doesn't strike me as being on par with the great singers out of Greece. But what are they doing?

More. Feel like I am waiting for the guitar and/or bouzouk to break out and do a bit more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1czBr45AeZI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKBHrZGP2DY

Vintage Greek Hawaiian steel guitar!