88.1 KDHX Saint Louis

This Greek group plays Music derived from the urban tradition of anatolia - now in Turkey, but which had a large Greek and Armenian population in the 19th century. The music that resulted spread all over the former Turkish empire

A Yiddish theatre song, but with a very old tune (hear the next track)

The Greek version of the preceding track (plus two other songs)

This is a type of zeimbekiko (solo dance in 9/8) which is counted 2+3+2+2

a hasapiko is a dance, usually done in a shoulder hold, and is 3 measures long. Versions of it occur all over the Balkans. The name comes from the butcher's district of the "polis" = Constantinople

This Turkish singer has some Greek band members, to play this Greek song. Songs about Dervishes bewitching the singer seem to be popular in the Greek Rebetic tradition - see the next selection

another song about a "little dervish", this one in Ziebekiko rhythm - 9/8 divided 2+2+2+3.

despite the label, this is a straightforward Zeimbekiko in 9/8 of the 2+2+2+3 variety

This CD was one of my "albums of the year when it came out 3 years ago. The 3 women who put this together are all Canadian

a Greek singer accompnied by Greek and Armenian musicians on a Turkish label. May this be the wave of the future...

2 songs in Greek island style, intertwined (slow and fast)

Turkish Urban Roma music