THE FILM
Rebetiko is a 1983 film directed by Costas Ferris and written by Costas Ferris and Sotiria Leonardou, with original music by Stavros Xarchakos. The film is based on the life of rebetiko singer Marika Ninou.
Rebetiko was nominated for the Golden Bear award at the 1984 Berlin International Film Festival, and won the Silver Bear. (en.wikipedia.org)
In the beggining of the film is written ‘the rebetiko song was always the stray of vagabonds, illegal, marginal and rebellious greeks. But with the great fire of smyrna in 1922, thousand of minor asians, along them lot of great musicians, found themselves in a night in the refuge camps outside of athens. That was the time a solidarity was created among the immigrants and the vagabonds of pireus, called "magka tu pirea". From this mixture was first created the smirnaiki style of pireus, and later with the establishment of the bouzouki it was formed the rebetiko, an authentic folk musical style created by and for the poor people’.
THE MUSIC
Stavros Xarhakos is one of the most notorious composers in Greece.
He composed the music of the film, putting together the rebetiko and the more modern folk -laiko- song, the album its not like a revival but make you believe it comes from the "golden period" of the '30s, its a fact that the result was so good and authentic the one person told him that these songs were like the first ones wrotten by Tsitsanis and Vamvakaris.
For me these album is one of the best and takes one place on the pantheon, its very sentimental, often sad, rebetiko also has many eastern influences, you can imagine a local with smells of spice, tobacco but also hashis, heroin, the feeling of having lost your home and being poor, life is hard, but there was an unwritten code between this people, sure more noble than the rules of the hypocrites that govern us.
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Disc 1
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01. Nikos Dimitratos - Mana Mou Ellas
02. Orhistra - Tsifteteli Hitzaskar
03. Nikos Dimitratos & Horodia - Ta Paidia Tis Amunas
04. Nikos Dimitratos - Stis Pikras Ta Xeronisa
05. Kostas Tsigkos & Horodia - Stou Thoma
06. Orhistra - Hasapiko 22
07. Sotiria Leonardou & Horodia - Kaigomai Kaigomai
08. Orhistra - Hora
09. Thodoros Polukandriotis - Erinaki
Disc 2
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01. Horodia - Imitlerim
02. Sotiria Leonardou & Horodia - Mpournovalia
03. Orhistra - Hasapiko 36
04. Kostas Tsiggos - Emena Logia Mi Mou Les
05. Kostas Tsiggos, Kostas Matzopoulos, Nikos Maragkopoulos &
06. Takis Mpinis & Horodia - To Dihtu
07. Horodia - Mana Mou Ellas
08. Takis Mpinis & Horodia - Sti Salamina
09. Stauros Xarhakos - To Praktoreio
10. Oloi - Stou Thoma
Music: Stauros Xarhakos
Lyrics: Nikos Gkatsos
Original Release: CBS - Columbia 1983
This is the Remastered Edition
Released with the newspaper 'Eleftheros Tipos'
Label: Sony Music
Released: 2009
Codec: Flac
Compression Level: 3
Quality: High
CD-rip by alekow (EAC and Flac)
Covers Included (400dpi)
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