Rembetika music or the Greek blues is a music born of exile and the streets. Developing its roots from the mass migration of people in the early twentieth century, filmmaker Mary Zournazi traces the ...
Musicologist Gail Holst, author of the famed book,The Road to Rembetika, and musicians from the Melbourne Greek band Rembetiki explore the urban blues of Greece known as Rembetika. It is the defining ...
Flamenco, fado and tango are firm fixtures on the world music jukebox, but their close cultural equivalent, Greek rembetika, is overdue on the playlist. In Greece itself, roots artists and audiences ...
Though he grew up in Athens, Andreas Georgas didn’t hear about rembetika, the music commonly known as the “Greek blues,” until 1994, when he was 18. He was studying piano at Roosevelt University when ...
Giving poetry and theft a voice, rembetika was once very popular in Cyprus and Greece. For a certain demographic it still is. AGNIESZKA RAKOCZY meets a master The story goes that the great rembetika ...
Mary Zournazi’s ‘My Rembetika Blues’ is a film about the power of music, and what makes us human. It is the type of music that was born in exile and on the streets. The film will be screened in ...
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CD1: O Ponos Tu Prezakia (The Pain Of The Junkie); Ime Prezakis (I Am A Junkie); Efumernam Ena Vradi (While We Were Smoking Dope One Evening); Htes To Vradi Sto Teke Mas (Last Night In Our Tekes); ...