Rembetika and Greek Popular Music

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Rembetika: Greek Music from the Underground

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In the early part of the 20th Century the Greek underground had its own music. Here's the music of criminals, con men and casanovas, tales of seductions, drug deals and prison, played with scintillating skill. If all you know about Greek music can be filed under Z for Zorba, prepare to be blasted into a new dimension. The origins of the music we now know as Rembetica lie in the obscurity of the mid-19th Century, or even earlier. It can be roughly divided into two schools: The first was that created by the Greek population of Ottoman cities such as Constantinople (Istanbul) and Smyrna (Izmir). In the main, this was played in public places of entertainment by highly skilled professional musicians, using, chiefly, violin, lyra, sandouri, guitar and mandolin. However, the fact that there also existed a rougher, more underground, form is evidenced by the "brothel" recordings made by Yiangos Psamathianos in Constantinople in around 1912. Meanwhile, chiefly in the underworld of homeland Greece, there developed another form of Rembetica, played in enclosed places such as "Tekedhes" (hash-dens) and prisons. This was more a music of non-professional musicians performing on guitar, baglamas and bouzouki. Read more Rembetika: Greek Music from the Underground

Rembetika 2: More of the Secret History of Greece's Underground Music

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Music from a Greek sub-culture 1908 - 1946. The first volume, Rembetika, Greek Music From The Underground' (JSPCD7776), presented a general overview of the genre on record from the 1920s to 1946. This second collection gathers together a selection of Rembetic pieces starting from the early days of sound recording. All of the sides here are extremely rare. Many have never appeared on CD before, while those that have were either originally dubbed from poor condition originals or are no longer available. Read more Rembetika 2: More of the Secret History of Greece's Underground Music