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Markos Vamvakaris Death Is Bitter

Mississippi | Artikel-Nr: 948515
Vinyl LP | 2022 / US – Original | Neuware
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HEAVY, ENTRANCING TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE GREEK UNDERWORLD.Rebetika is the sound of Greece and Asia Minor clashing amid civil war, mass population exchange, and the anarchy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Poetic, mournful, and bitter, rebetika music was born in the hash dens (tekes) of Mediterranean ports, its verses whispered in Greek prisons before spilling out to the greater population in the 1930s, propelled in no small part by a series of remarkable recordings by Markos Vamvakaris.Markos, as he's known to this day, sang heady, drugged out songs of love, pain and yearning at brothels, bars and hash dens in the port of Piraeus. He arrived as a youth in 1917, working as a skinner in a tannery. By the time he picked up the bouzouki around 1924, he was fully taken by the life of the manges, the lowest rungs of the Greek social ladder. They lived by their own code and in total opposition to the rest of the population, and rebetika was their music. On these twelve early tracks, recorded in Athens between 1932 and 1936, Markos was already a master of the bouzouki. His forceful, clean playing compliments his hoarse voice and his stunning rhythmic sensibility, the result of his years as a champion zebekiko dancer. Tracks build and spiral outward, his open-note drones and melodic lines drawing calls of ecstasy and encouragement from his fellow musicians. Translations of songs like "Hash-Smoking Mortissa" and "In The Dark Last Night" provide a glimpse into the life and language of the manges - Ottoman cafe music, the calls of displaced Greeks of Smyrna, the chaos and suffering of port life, it all comes through Markos' songs.These recordings, incredibly rare and expertly remastered,mark the height of rebetika, the brief periodbetween the music's emergence on the recording scenein the early 1930s and government censorship of alllyrics starting in 1936. During the Axis occupation therewas no rebetika recording, and though Markos had somehits in the years after the war, he never again attai...
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Artikel-Nr: 948515
Artist: Markos Vamvakaris
Titel: Death Is Bitter
Label: Mississippi
Format: Vinyl LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressung: US – Original
Release Date: 2022
Genre: Rock & Indie
Style: Folk
Erhältlich seit: 02.11.2022
Zustand: Neuware
Preis: $ 24.52
Gewicht: 250g (plus 250g Verpackung)
Tracklist
A1 We Were Smoking One Evening
A2 Hash-Smoking Mortissa
A3 Bitch, You Made Me Waste Away
A4 The Spinner
A5 Arap Zebekiko
A6 The Butcher
B1 Serfo Taxim
B2 Your Arabian Eyes
B3 My Woman's Jealous
B4 In The Dark Last Night
B5 Markos From Syros
B6 Pireotikos Manes (Death Is Bitter)
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